{"id":56490,"date":"2025-11-17T05:31:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T05:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/56490\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T05:31:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T05:31:31","slug":"los-angeles-kings-adrian-kempe-agree-to-8-year-85-million-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/56490\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Kings, Adrian Kempe agree to 8-year, $85 million contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Forward Adrian Kempe<\/a> has agreed to an eight-year, $85 million contract to stay with the Los Angeles Kings<\/a>, a person with knowledge of the deal tells The Associated Press.<\/p>\n

The person spoke on condition of anonymity Sunday because the Kings hadn\u2019t announced their deal with the 29-year-old Kempe, who would have been an unrestricted free agent next summer. The deal extends through the 2033-34 season and has an average annual value of $10.625 million.<\/p>\n

Kempe has been the Kings\u2019 most dependable offensive player over the past four seasons, earning an All-Star selection in 2022 and leading Los Angeles to four straight playoff appearances. The Swedish right wing has 200 goals and 220 assists in a 10-year career spent entirely with Los Angeles, which drafted him with the 29th overall pick in 2014.<\/p>\n

Kempe scored a career-high 41 goals during the 2022-23 season, and he has four consecutive 25-goal seasons. He leads the Kings with six goals and 13 assists in 19 games this season while playing extensively on special teams.<\/p>\n

Kempe is also on Sweden\u2019s initial roster for the 2026 Olympics.<\/p>\n

Re-signing Kempe has been a top priority for new Kings general manager Ken Holland<\/a>, who said he wanted to maintain a foundation of leadership and talent when longtime captain Anze Kopitar<\/a> retires next year. But negotiations with Kempe stretched from the summer into the season, leading to increasing speculation that Kempe would hit the open market next year.<\/p>\n

Instead, Kempe joins the list of potential 2026 free agents who have re-signed with their teams in the past two months. Connor McDavid<\/a>, Martin Necas<\/a>, Jack Eichel<\/a> and Kirill Kaprizov<\/a> have all committed to their respective teams recently.<\/p>\n

The Kings (10-5-4) have rebounded from a slow start to their season with four consecutive victories on their current six-game road swing. They play at Washington on Monday.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NHL: https:\/\/apnews.com\/NHL<\/p>\n

Greg Beacham, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Forward Adrian Kempe has agreed to an eight-year, $85 million contract to stay with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[34916,48,52,51,47,50,49,34915],"class_list":["post-56490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-adrian-kempe-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8477960","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-kings-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-26"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56490","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=56490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}