{"id":84595,"date":"2025-07-23T00:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T00:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/84595\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T00:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T00:56:08","slug":"kakko-signs-3-year-13-575-million-contract-with-kraken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/84595\/","title":{"rendered":"Kakko signs 3-year, $13.575 million contract with Kraken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/kaapo-kakko-8481554\" title=\"Kaapo Kakko\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kaapo Kakko<\/a> signed a three-year, $13.575 million contract with the Seattle Kraken on Tuesday. It has an average annual value of $4.525 million.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old forward, who was a restricted free agent, avoided a salary arbitration hearing. He had an NHL career-high 44 points (14 goals, 30 assists) in 79 games last season, including 30 points (10 goals, 20 assists) in 49 games with the Kraken after he was acquired in a trade with the New York Rangers on Dec. 18.<\/p>\n<p>Kakko averaged 17:03 of ice time per game with Seattle, which was fifth among its forwards, after averaging 13:17 in his 30 games last season with New York.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Getting a contract done with Kaapo was a top priority this summer,&#8221; Kraken general manager Jason Botterill said. &#8220;We knew quickly he&#8217;d be a big part of our team moving forward. He&#8217;s got size (6-foot-1, 215 pounds), skill and tremendous playmaking ability, and isn&#8217;t afraid of going to the net. He fit in immediately with our group, and we&#8217;re thrilled to have him under contract.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Selected by the Rangers with the No. 2 pick in the 2019 NHL Draft, Kakko has 161 points (71 goals, 90 assists) in 379 regular-season games with New York and Seattle, and nine points (four goals, five assists) in 44 Stanley Cup Playoff games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kaapo Kakko signed a three-year, $13.575 million contract with the Seattle Kraken on Tuesday. It has an average&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":84596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[293,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-84595","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":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114899831173744521","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84595","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=84595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}