{"id":413051,"date":"2026-07-26T18:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T18:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/413051\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T18:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T18:27:07","slug":"incoming-michigan-state-hockey-freshman-signs-elc-with-anaheim-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/413051\/","title":{"rendered":"Incoming Michigan State hockey freshman signs ELC with Anaheim Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 26, 2026, 11:09 a.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Just 24 hours after Michigan State hockey released their roster for the 2026-27 season, a major shake up has taken place. Incoming freshman Nikita Klepov will no longer be coming to Michigan State, instead, he has signed a three-year entry level contract with the <a data-autotag=\"1ff9f7b3-14b2-4cef-bd2f-7a376d4636dc\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/anaheim-ducks\/4978\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Anaheim Ducks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Klepov was the 15th overall pick in the 2026 NHL Entry Draft by the Ducks out of the OHL&#8217;s Saginaw Spirit, and while it was expected that he was going to play a year in East Lansing before going pro. plans have changed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">According to multiple reports, Klepov is going to have to make the Ducks NHL roster, because he will not be AHL eligible this season, meaning its Anaheim or it is Saginaw for the forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Contact\/Follow us\u00a0@<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thespartanswire\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The SpartansWire<\/a>\u00a0on X (formerly Twitter) and like our page on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SpartansWire\/\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u00a0<\/a>to follow ongoing coverage of Michigan State news, notes and opinion.<\/p>\n<p>Need a news break? <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (play)|e|auto spike click:6|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/play.usatoday.com\/?itm_source=SPIKE&amp;itm_campaign=PLAYSPIKE&amp;itm_medium=ONSITE\">Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July 26, 2026, 11:09 a.m. ET Just 24 hours after Michigan State hockey released their roster for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[243,163,165,164,153435,153436,119132,36817,3351,1350,261,22201,3348,257,95886,152799,259,377,246],"class_list":["post-413051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-accessfree","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-sourcespartans-wire","tag-sstssportscollegespartanshockey","tag-sstsnhockey","tag-tagamerican-hockey-league","tag-taganaheim-ducks","tag-tagcollege-sports","tag-tagcolleges-universities","tag-tagfacebook","tag-taghockey","tag-tagmichigan-state-university","tag-tagnhl-entry-draft","tag-tagontario-hockey-league","tag-tagoverall-negative","tag-tagsports-news","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}