{"id":75846,"date":"2025-08-11T23:54:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T23:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/75846\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T23:54:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T23:54:07","slug":"evans-signs-2-year-4-1-million-contract-with-kraken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/75846\/","title":{"rendered":"Evans signs 2-year, $4.1 million contract with Kraken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/ryker-evans-8482858\" title=\"Ryker Evans\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryker Evans<\/a> signed a two-year, $4.1 million contract with the Seattle Kraken on Monday. It has an average annual value of $2.05 million.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old defenseman, who was a restricted free agent, had 25 points (five goals, 20 assists) in 73 games last season. He also led Kraken defensemen in hits (123) and was third in blocks (106).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRyker took a positive step forward in his first full season in the NHL,\u201d Kraken general manager Jason Botterill said. \u201cSince turning pro, he&#8217;s shown improvement year over year, and we&#8217;re confident he&#8217;ll take his game to another level next season. We&#8217;re happy to have him under contract.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Selected by Seattle in the second round (No. 35) of the 2021 NHL Draft, Evans has 34 points (six goals, 28 assists) in 109 NHL games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryker Evans signed a two-year, $4.1 million contract with the Seattle Kraken on Monday. It has an average&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-75846","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\/75846","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=75846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}