{"id":480460,"date":"2026-09-30T13:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T13:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/480460\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T13:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T13:00:09","slug":"nikita-klepov-makes-anaheim-ducks-roster-after-forgoing-time-at-msu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/480460\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikita Klepov makes Anaheim Ducks roster after forgoing time at MSU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sept. 29, 2026, 9:00 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Michigan State hockey thought that they were going to get the services of one of the best players in the 2026 NHL Draft Class. Instead, 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> signed Nikita Klepov to an entry level contract, with Klepov forgoing his time in East Lansing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Klepov, the 15th overall pick in this year&#8217;s draft, had his risk pay off. Announced to start this week, Klepov has officially made the Ducks 25-man active roster to begin the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">A native of Deerfield Beach, Florida, while also carrying Russian citizenship, Klepov was a star with the Saginaw Spirit of the Ontario Hockey League, where he gained the recognition of both the Spartans and the NHL.<\/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. You can also follow Cory Linsner on X\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Rex_Linzy\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow\">@Rex_Linzy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Love crosswords? <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (midgrid)|e|auto spike click:5|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/play.usatoday.com\/midgrid\/?itm_source=SPIKE&amp;itm_campaign=PLAYSPIKE&amp;itm_medium=ONSITE\">Explore the Crossword page and play the new MidGrid Crossword.<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sept. 29, 2026, 9:00 p.m. ET Michigan State hockey thought that they were going to get the services&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[243,163,165,164,153435,153436,119132,3351,1350,32353,22201,3348,257,152799,1349,377,255,246],"class_list":["post-480460","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-taganaheim-ducks","tag-tagcollege-sports","tag-tageast-lansing","tag-tagfacebook","tag-taghockey","tag-tagmichigan-state-university","tag-tagontario-hockey-league","tag-tagoverall-positive","tag-tagsports-news","tag-tagtwitter","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480460","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=480460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}