{"id":383968,"date":"2025-11-16T23:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T23:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/383968\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T23:18:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T23:18:10","slug":"sources-adrian-kempe-kings-agree-to-8-year-85m-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/383968\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Adrian Kempe, Kings agree to 8-year, $85M contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"47ce4014-1c1f-c67f-bfe6-ec95d5f57a87\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/la\/los-angeles-kings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles Kings<\/a> and winger <a data-player-guid=\"6ad87f20-a363-6b83-6f19-8325018d0d0a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/3114802\/adrian-kempe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adrian Kempe<\/a> have agreed to a new eight-year contract worth $10.625 million annually, sources told ESPN on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Kings viewed it as a priority to re-sign Kempe, especially as they prepare for captain <a data-player-guid=\"25ff43fa-b57e-716c-fd95-374e00ea7a08\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/3183\/anze-kopitar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anze Kopitar<\/a> to retire at the end of the season. The sides had been negotiating over the last few months, and Kempe, sources said, took a little less money, indicating his desire to stay in Los Angeles, where he believes he can win a Stanley Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/story\/_\/id\/46954265\/nhl-power-rankings-2025-26-best-teams-standings-best-stats-projections-pace-fantasy-hockey\" class=\"img-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/NHL_power_rankings_25_11_14_1x1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The contract runs through the 2033-34 season. The 29-year-old Kempe, a native of Sweden, has played his entire 10-year career with the Kings after being drafted in the first round in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Kempe, the Kings&#8217; leading scorer in each of the last two seasons, has six goals and 19 points through 19 games this season.<\/p>\n<p>He was arguably the biggest free agent remaining for the summer of 2026. <a data-player-guid=\"8e2e22e8-01b6-8acb-8a50-47f4941b52c6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/3895074\/connor-mcdavid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Connor McDavid<\/a>, <a data-player-guid=\"656e0c4e-5914-3a54-d2de-1242b6f15b5e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/3648002\/jack-eichel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jack Eichel<\/a>, Kiril Kaprizov and <a data-player-guid=\"f5f950eb-6133-1728-2029-867e0fa3a8d8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/4233586\/martin-necas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Martin Necas<\/a> all re-signed with their respective teams over the last two months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Kings and winger Adrian Kempe have agreed to a new eight-year contract worth $10.625 million&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":383969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[293,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-383968","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}