The Ottawa Senators have re-signed defenceman Tyler Kleven to a two-year contract extension with an annual average value of $1.6 million, the team announced Monday morning.
Kleven, who was slated to be a restricted free agent this summer, scored four goals and recorded 10 points over 79 games in 2024-25, his first full NHL season, before adding two assists in six playoff games.
The defenceman was primarily used on the Senators’ third pairing, playing alongside Jacob Bernard-Docker, Travis Hamonic, and Nikolas Matinpalo at different points of the season. Ottawa selected the now-23-year-old in the second round of the 2020 NHL Draft, before his freshman season at the University of North Dakota.
The Senators are projected to have over $15 million in cap space after the signing, according to PuckPedia. Forwards Claude Giroux and Fabian Zetterlund are the team’s most prominent pending unrestricted and restricted free agents, respectively.
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