{"id":656115,"date":"2026-09-05T06:45:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T06:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/656115\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T06:45:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T06:45:23","slug":"kraken-sign-jacob-melanson-to-three-year-deal-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/656115\/","title":{"rendered":"Kraken Sign Jacob Melanson To Three-Year Deal \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Seattle Kraken have re-signed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/melanja01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-09-04_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jacob Melanson<\/a> to a three-year contract, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SeattleKraken\/status\/2095889739383713803\" rel=\"nofollow\">the team announced<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old will earn a total of $4.35MM, at a $1.45MM cap hit until 2029, when the forward will turn 26-years-old at the contract\u2019s expiration as a restricted free agent, just one year before he\u2019d hit UFA status. Among right-wingers on bottom-line NHL roles, Melanson\u2019s $1.45MM cap hit is 23rd in the league.<\/p>\n<p>Melanson spent his 2025-26 season between both the Kraken and the Coachella Valley Firebirds, the organization\u2019s AHL affiliate. In 36 NHL games, he scored 5 points. In the AHL, he produced nine goals for 19 points in 28 games and added five points in 11 Calder Cup playoff games. Notably, the 6-foot-1 winger is known for his bruising style of play, registering a team-leading, season-high 188 hits in that short span of NHL games. He also led the forwards in penalties in minutes, racking up 32 total, seventh on the team overall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re excited to re-sign Jacob,\u201d said Kraken GM Jason Botterill. \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>Formerly a fifth-round pick back in 2021, Melanson signed his entry-level contract back in the summer of 2022 after a productive 56-point season in the QMJHL with the Acadie-Bathurst Titan in 54 games. He followed that up with a 50-goal, 99-point campaign in 2022-23, being traded to the Sherbrooke Phoenix during the season.<\/p>\n<p>The Amherst, CAN native, since then has filled out his role as a reliable top-six AHLer, spending the majority of his past four years in Coachella Valley, scoring 50 points across 132 games, as well as a solid fourth-line NHL option for the Kraken, as there have been several call-ups to Seattle, six in the past two seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Seattle Kraken have re-signed Jacob Melanson to a three-year contract, the team announced. The 23-year-old will earn&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[5,43661,4188,4,2686,234,5318],"class_list":["post-656115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-seattle-kraken","tag-hockey","tag-jacob-melanson","tag-kraken","tag-nhl","tag-seattle","tag-seattle-kraken","tag-seattlekraken"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/117217088244504043","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656115","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=656115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}