Last season, the Los Angeles Kings recorded 105 points (48 wins, 25 losses, nine overtime losses) and earned home-ice advantage in the first round of the playoffs. But in the end, all that gave them was a first-round matchup against the Edmonton Oilers, the team that made it to the Stanley Cup Final out of the West in 2024 and was out for blood in 2025. The Kings ended up losing in six games , and now, the future of their star player, Adrian Kempe, is now in considerable doubt.

Kempe is in the final year of the four-year, $22 million contract that he signed back in 2022, and his emergence into the Kings' most dangerous offensive threat has made him that much more valuable to the Kings franchise. Alas, there remains a gap between the two sides in their contract extension negotiatio

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