Sources: Eichel lands 8-year extension with Vegas

Jack Eichel and the Vegas Golden Knights person agreed to an eight-year hold that carries a $13.5 cardinal mean yearly value, sources told ESPN.

The statement came conscionable hours earlier the Golden Knights unfastened their play Wednesday nighttime against the Los Angeles Kings successful Las Vegas.

Eichel's campy and the Golden Knights intensified talks arsenic grooming campy opened, with some sides fixated connected getting a semipermanent woody secured up of the season.

Eichel, 28, was entering the last twelvemonth of an eight-year woody that carried a $10 cardinal headdress hit, which helium primitively signed with the Buffalo Sabres, who drafted him.

Buffalo traded Eichel to the Golden Knights successful 2021.

The American-born halfway helped Vegas triumph its archetypal Stanley Cup successful 2023, aft scoring 26 points successful 22 games during the playoff run. Eichel is already 1 of the six players named to Team USA for the 2026 Olympics successful Milan.

The Golden Knights are expected to beryllium Stanley Cup contenders, particularly aft adding winger Mitch Marner this summer. Eichel and Marner are expected to play unneurotic connected Vegas' apical enactment successful its opener against the Kings.

The statement takes different large sanction disconnected the database of what could person been a star-studded escaped cause people adjacent summer. Connor McDavid re-signed for a two-year deal with the Edmonton Oilers earlier successful the week, and Kirill Kaprizov inked an eight-year deal with the Minnesota Wild up of the season.