{"id":197826,"date":"2025-10-02T19:14:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T19:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/197826\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T19:14:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T19:14:06","slug":"lacombe-signs-8-year-contract-with-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/197826\/","title":{"rendered":"LaCombe signs 8-year contract with Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/jackson-lacombe-8481605\" title=\"Jackson LaCombe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jackson LaCombe<\/a> signed an eight-year contract with the Anaheim Ducks on Thursday. Financial terms were not disclosed for the deal, which begins with the 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old defenseman had 43 points (14 goals, 29 assists) 75 games with Anaheim last season. LaCombe is entering the last of a two-year contract he signed with the Ducks on July 15, 2024, and could have become a restricted free agent after this season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today is an exciting day for my family and I am grateful to the organization for their belief in me,&#8221; LaCombe said. &#8220;It was an easy decision for me to commit my future to the Ducks and Orange County. We are building something special here and I am excited to do everything I can to help this team win.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A second-round pick (No. 39) by Anaheim at the 2019 NHL Draft, Lacombe has 60 points (16 goals, 44 assists) in 148 NHL games.<\/p>\n<p>The contract comes five days after the Ducks signed forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/mason-mctavish-8482745\" title=\"Mason McTavish\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mason McTavish<\/a> to an six-year contract that also begins next season. McTavish, 22, led them in goals (22) and was second on the team in points (52) in 76 games last season.<\/p>\n<p>Anaheim opens its regular season Oct. 9 at the Seattle Kraken.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are excited to sign Jackson to a long-term contract and lock up a core player for our future,&#8221; Ducks general manager Pat Verbeek said. &#8220;Getting this deal done early was a priority for us. Jackson has all of the tools to be an anchor on our back end for many years to come.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jackson LaCombe signed an eight-year contract with the Anaheim Ducks on Thursday. Financial terms were not disclosed for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-197826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}