{"id":899894,"date":"2026-09-18T02:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T02:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/899894\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T02:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T02:12:09","slug":"he-wants-to-be-here-kings-gm-not-worried-about-doughtys-expiring-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/899894\/","title":{"rendered":"‘He wants to be here’: Kings GM not worried about Doughty’s expiring deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

If there’s any threat of Drew Doughty<\/a> leaving the Los Angeles Kings<\/a> after the 2026-27 season, the organization is doing a good job of making it seem otherwise as training camp begins.<\/p>\n

After naming the veteran defenceman the 15th captain in franchise history on Wednesday, Kings general manager Ken Holland discussed Doughty’s contract situation as he enters the final season of an eight-year deal signed in 2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cDrew has no desire to go anywhere,\u201d Holland said Thursday. \u201cYou just see his passion for the L.A. Kings. You guys are all watching what\u2019s going on around the league with contracts, so we\u2019ve got to find a solution that is good for Drew and is good for the L.A. Kings.”<\/p>\n

Early this off-season, Holland announced that the Kings would not be inking an extension with Doughty, who became eligible to re-up in Los Angeles on July 1, but added that they would revisit the topic before he hits unrestricted free agency.<\/p>\n

Doughty, 36, has spent his entire 18-year career in Southern California, wracking up 1,279 games with 165 goals and 709 points, along with a Norris Trophy in 2015-16.<\/p>\n

The veteran blue-liner won two Stanley Cups with Los Angeles in 2012 and 2014. He also won two gold medals with Team Canada at the 2010 and 2014 Olympics, and added a silver at the 2026 Winter Games.<\/p>\n

With that much history in Tinseltown, it would surely be odd to see Doughty suit up in a different uniform \u2014 something that Holland assured reporters Thursday is unlikely.<\/p>\n

“He\u2019s not going anywhere and I want him to be here beyond this season,” Los Angeles’s GM said. “I don\u2019t think either of us are worried about it because he has no desire to leave\u2026 he wants to be here, we want him to be here. I just think we\u2019ve just got to, at the right time, find out what\u2019s fair to Drew and what\u2019s fair to the team.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If there’s any threat of Drew Doughty leaving the Los Angeles Kings after the 2026-27 season, the organization…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":899895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-899894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=899894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/899895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}