{"id":655916,"date":"2026-09-05T00:24:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T00:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/655916\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T00:24:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T00:24:16","slug":"seattle-kraken-re-sign-f-jacob-melanson-to-3-year-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/655916\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Kraken re-sign F Jacob Melanson to 3-year Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/mellyfight.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: Jennthulhu Photos<\/p>\n<p>The hits keep on coming.<\/p>\n<p>Jacob Melanson, the man who hits anything that moves, has been re-signed to a 3-year, $4.35 million extension ($1.45m AAV).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re excited to re-sign Jacob,\u201d general manager Jason Botterill said via team press release. \u201cHe brought a lot of physicality and energy to our group last season, and we\u2019re looking forward to seeing more from him these next few years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year old forward\u2019s defining feature of his game is his physicality, having registered a mouth-watering (and Advil-necessitating) 188 hits in just 36 games. He had 2 goals and 3 assists in 36 games, so nobody\u2019s going to be confusing his scoring ability with Connor McDavid\u2019s. But Connor McDavid never had 12 hits in a single game, so who\u2019s the real \u201cbest player in the world and a generational talent\u201d now, hmm?<\/p>\n<p>Melanson is expected to fight for a bottom six role when Kraken training camp opens September 17th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo credit: Jennthulhu Photos The hits keep on coming. Jacob Melanson, the man who hits anything that moves,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[5,4188,4,2686,234,5318],"class_list":["post-655916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-seattle-kraken","tag-hockey","tag-kraken","tag-nhl","tag-seattle","tag-seattle-kraken","tag-seattlekraken"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/117215590399419773","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655916","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=655916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}