LOS ANGELES, CA – The LA Kings have signed goaltender Jack Campbell to a two-year contract extension, Kings Vice President and General Manager Rob Blake announced today.
His contract will go into effect at the start of the 2020-21 season and carries an AAV of $1.65 million.
The 27-year-old Campbell (born Jan. 9, 1992) appeared in 31 games last season with the Kings, where he posted a 10-14-1 record in a career-high 25 starts, a .928 save percentage, 2.30 goals-against average and two shutouts.
DETROIT, MI – Dylan Larkin believes he’s ready to wear the “C” for the Detroit Red Wings, but he’s not allowing the possibility to distract him ahead of his fifth season with the team.
“I feel ready for it,” Larkin told TSN of the captaincy at the Power Edge Pro camp on Tuesday. “I think it’s something that I can’t focus on. I can’t lose sleep about it. I can’t control it. I just try to be myself and play the game that I love and play with a lot of passion and everyone in the NHL has been a leader at some point in their careers. I’m lucky that we have great veteran leadership and it’s taken a lot of pressure off of me.
NASHVILLE, TN – Nashville Predators President of Hockey Operations/GM David Poile announced Tuesday that the team has signed forward Rocco Grimaldi to a one-year, $1 million contract. The terms of the contract were based on the award of an independent arbitrator who heard the case on August 4.
Grimaldi, 26 (2/8/93), established career highs in games played (53), goals (5), assists (8) and points (13) this season with the Predators, his first with the club. He skated in 33 more games than his previous career high of 20, set in 2015-16 with the Florida Panthers. The 5-foot-6, 180-pound right wing averaged 10:00 of ice time and added two multi-point games this season on Dec. 31 at Washington (1g-1a) and March 5 vs. Minnesota (2a). He also recorded a career-best four-game point streak from Dec. 31, 2018-Jan. 5, 2019 in which he tallied two goals and two assists. Grimaldi skated in five of Nashville’s Stanley Cup Playoff games and led the team in goals with three, his first career postseason points. Additionally, he appeared in 10 games for the AHL’s Milwaukee Admirals, tallying four goals and 11 points.
CHICAGO, IL – J.T. Compher and his sister, Jesse, developed a love of hockey in the family home when they were kids.
The siblings played in a concrete extension their parents, Valerie and Bob, built on their house in Northbrook, Illinois, about 25 miles northwest of Chicago. J.T. would often fire slap shots at Jesse, who originally wanted to be a goalie.
“I don’t know why I ever thought that was a good idea,” Jesse said. “It was a lot of fun and super competitive, but I think it kind of made us who we are now.”
The childhood games have led to big things for the Comphers.
CHICAGO, IL – Several NHL players participated Sunday in the third annual Chicago Hockey Charity Classic: J.T. Compher, Ryan Hartman, Brandon Pirri, Garret Sparks.
The event, held at the Blackhawks’ Fifth Third Arena, raised about $40,000 for Special Olympics Chicago.
‘‘Special Olympics is all about inclusion and allowing everyone an opportunity to participate in sport, no matter what the game is,’’ Coyne Schofield said. ‘‘Today’s game embodied that, whether it was women’s players, sled players [or] NHL players.’’
Coyne Schofield’s team, which also featured Hartman, Sparks and 1970s and ’80s Blackhawks mainstay Grant Mulvey, battled Josh Pauls’ team, which also featured Compher, Pirri, former Hawks defenseman Adam Clendening and NHL agent/Special Olympics chairman Kevin Magnuson as players and Panthers general manager Dale Tallon as coach, to a 6-6 tie over two periods.
GLENDALE, AZ – Nick Schmaltz showed the Arizona Coyotes what he could do in a handful of games last season before sustaining a season-ending lower-body injury in late December.
Now the 23-year-old forward, who the Coyotes acquired in a trade with the Chicago Blackhawks on Nov. 25, 2018, for forwards Dylan Strome and Brendan Perlini, is healthy heading into the first season of a seven-year contract he signed in March and said he isn’t overwhelmed by the expectations that come with it.
DETROIT, MI – The Detroit Red Wings today re-signed center Dominic Turgeon to a one-year contract.
Turgeon, 23, completed his third professional season in 2018-19, appearing in 72 games with the American Hockey League’s Grand Rapids Griffins and compiling 20 points (6-14-20), a plus-one rating and 41 penalty minutes, adding three points (1-2-3) in three postseason games. Turgeon also appeared in four games with the Red Wings and has skated in five NHL games for Detroit since debuting in 2017-18. In nine total NHL games, Turgeon has registered two penalty minutes, five shots on goal, six hits, 11 blocked shots and four takeaways in 10:43 average time on ice. The 6-foot-2, 200-pound forward has totaled 212 AHL games with the Griffins over the last three seasons (2016-19), logging 70 points (26-44-70), a plus-21 rating and 70 penalty minutes. He won a 2017 Calder Cup championship with Grand Rapids and has registered five points (2-3-5) and two penalty minutes in 22 total Calder Cup Playoff games.
CHICAGO, IL – Garret Sparks was still a little emotional on Wednesday, a day after the Toronto Maple Leafs traded the 26-year-old goalie to the Vegas Golden Knights for forward David Clarkson and a fourth-round pick in the 2020 NHL Draft.
But Sparks, selected by the Maple Leafs in the seventh round (No. 190) of the 2011 NHL Draft, is also ready for a fresh start.
“All I’ve wanted is a fair opportunity, come [training] camp, to try and make the team,” Sparks said Wednesday after a Chicago Pro Hockey League game at Fifth Third Arena, “and I think that I’ll get a better opportunity [with Vegas] than I would have in Toronto. At the end of the day, that’s what you’re looking for as a player.”
DETROIT, MI – It’s July, but Dylan Larkin is thinking ahead.
“I believe I’m working as hard as I possibly can, and also resting, which is a huge part of the summer, and taking care of my body,” the Detroit Red Wings center said on Tuesday. “It’s just stuff you learn. After four years, your body, you feel things, and you understand if you want to play big minutes in the NHL, the big minutes matter in February, March, April and May. That’s what you have to prepare for.”
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