The Ducks have\u00a0signed left wing Jeff Malott to a three-year contract through the 2028-29 NHL season.<\/p>\n
Malott, 29 (8\/7\/96), has appeared in 71 career NHL games with Los Angeles (2024-26) and Winnipeg (2021-22), earning 3-7=10 points with 64 penalty minutes (PIM). He recorded a career-best in points (3-6=9), goals, assists and appearances (58) with Los Angeles during the 2025-26 season, ranking second among Kings leaders in hits (166). He also appeared in all four Stanley Cup Playoff contests for the Kings, where he reached a max skating speed of 23.37 MPH, ranking in the 97th percentile of 2026 postseason skaters.<\/p>\n
The 6-5, 215-pound forward made his NHL debut with Winnipeg in 2021-22. Malott recorded 105-103=208 points with a +34 rating and 318 PIM in 298 career AHL games with Ontario (2024-25) and Manitoba (2020-24).\u00a0He also scored two goals in 12 career\u00a0Calder Cup Playoff contests. Malott established AHL single-season career highs in points (22-30=52) in 2023-24 and goals (23) in 2024-25 with Ontario, recording four consecutive 40-point campaigns from 2021-25.<\/p>\n
An undrafted free agent, the Burlington, Ontario native spent four seasons at Cornell University of the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC), earning 24-29=53 points in 114 NCAA games. He led the club to regular-season conference championships in 2018 and 2020, while he served as captain his senior season in 2019-20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ducks have\u00a0signed left wing Jeff Malott to a three-year contract through the 2028-29 NHL season. Malott, 29…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":737909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-737908","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\/737908","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=737908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}