{"id":197911,"date":"2025-10-02T20:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T20:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/197911\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T20:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T20:01:09","slug":"jackson-lacombe-ducks-agree-to-biggest-contract-in-team-history-ahead-of-nhl-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/197911\/","title":{"rendered":"Jackson LaCombe, Ducks Agree to Biggest Contract in Team History Ahead of NHL Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Anaheim Ducks are re-signing defenseman Jackson LaCombe to the largest deal in franchise history, Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman<\/a> reported Thursday.<\/p>\n

LaCombe’s eight-year, $72 million deal will set a Ducks record in terms of total contract value, according to Friedman.<\/p>\n

LaCombe is set to play the 2025-26 season on $925,000 cap hit, per Spotrac<\/a>. He was previously scheduled to hit restricted free agency next spring.<\/p>\n

The news comes the day after the New Jersey Devils signed<\/a> young defenseman Luke Hughes to a comparable seven-year, $63 million extension.<\/p>\n

LaCombe, a second-round 2019 draft pick who played four seasons for the University of Minnesota, made his NHL debut late in the Ducks’ 2022-23 season.<\/p>\n

He rejoined the Ducks as a full-time NHLer for the 2023-24 campaign, skating more than 19 minutes per night in 71 games as a rookie.<\/p>\n

LaCombe’s production jumped last season alongside his ice time and his shooting percentage. <\/p>\n

Mostly as a top-pairing partner to Radko Gudas, LaCombe led Anaheim’s defenseman with 14 goals and ranked fourth on the team with 29 assists for 43 points in 75 games.<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old enters the 2025-26 season with 60 points in 148 career games for the Ducks.<\/p>\n

LaCombe’s new contract indicates the Ducks are expecting him to take another step forward during his third NHL season. General manager Pat Verbeek said in a statement he believes LaCombe “has all of the tools to be an anchor on our back end for many years to come.”<\/p>\n

The defenseman will now join center Mason McTavish, who signed a six-year extension<\/a> with the Ducks last week, alongside Lukas Dostal as key pieces of Anaheim’s young core going forward.<\/p>\n

LaCombe will once more be expected to help anchor the top pairing alongside Gudas when the Ducks open the 2025-26 NHL season next Thursday with a road game against the Seattle Kraken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Anaheim Ducks are re-signing defenseman Jackson LaCombe to the largest deal in franchise history, Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-197911","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\/197911","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=197911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}