{"id":57537,"date":"2025-06-02T05:39:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T05:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/57537\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T05:39:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T05:39:11","slug":"kraken-sign-kaden-hammell-to-entry-level-contract-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/57537\/","title":{"rendered":"Kraken Sign Kaden Hammell To Entry-Level Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With today being the signing deadline for several prospects across the NHL, the Kraken got in a signing just before the 4 PM CT deadline.\u00a0 Seattle has signed defenseman <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eliteprospects.com\/player\/535571\/kaden-hammell\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kaden Hammell<\/a> to a three-year, entry-level contract, relays Curtis Crabtree of Fox 13 Seattle (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Curtis_Crabtree\/status\/1929279255889809722\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter link<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old was drafted in the fifth round back in 2023, going 148th overall.\u00a0 Hammell was not a big point producer throughout the bulk of his WHL career but he saved his best performance for last.\u00a0 He played in 59 regular season games with Everett this season, notching 10 goals and 28 assists before following that up with 13 points in as many outings in the playoffs which might have been enough to get this contract.<\/p>\n<p>Hammell is eligible to return to junior for an overage season where he\u2019d likely play a top role with the Silvertips.\u00a0 Alternatively, Seattle could elect to start him in the minors, either with AHL Coachella Valley or ECHL Kansas City, allowing him to get a start on his professional career.\u00a0 With the Kraken signing <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eliteprospects.com\/player\/707666\/andrei-loshko\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Andrei Loshko<\/a> back in April, they didn\u2019t lose the rights to any prospects at today\u2019s deadline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With today being the signing deadline for several prospects across the NHL, the Kraken got in a signing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[5,11895,4188,4,2686,234,5318,405],"class_list":{"0":"post-57537","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-kraken","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-kaden-hammell","10":"tag-kraken","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-seattle","13":"tag-seattle-kraken","14":"tag-seattlekraken","15":"tag-transactions"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/114612165927251065","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}