It’s official. Miloš Kelemen signed a contract with a club from the NHL – ŠPORT.SK

today 08:52 | Slovak hockey forward Miloš Kelemen has signed a two-year rookie contract with the NHL Arizona Coyotes. The club informed about it on social networks. Kelemen took the lead of the “coyotes” in the 2021/2022 season, in which he played in the Czech extra league in Mladá Boleslav for the first time and also started at the Olympic Games in Beijing. “Miloš has made great progress and won a contract in the NHL. He deserved it and we wish it to him,” Radim Vrbata, the sports manager of the Mladá Boleslav club, told TASR. Kelemen came to Mladá Boleslav before the 2021/2022 season after winning the Slovak title with HKM Zvolen. He played 44 matches in the basic part of the Czech extra league, in which he scored 18 points (5 + 13). However, his reputation gradually escalated when, after participating in the Beijing Olympics, culminating in sensational bronze, he shone in the playoffs. He scored 9 goals in 14 matches, to which he added 3 assists and 7 plus points. “He was impressed by what he showed during the season and especially in the playoffs. He has energy, is well built and moves in areas where it hurts. In them he is able to find pucks and score goals. He convinced by a combination of these qualities,” said Vrbata. . A two-way deal can earn Kelemen an average of $ 817.5,000 a season, with $ 55,000 a signing bonus. In the first season (2022/2023), his basic salary will be at the NHL level of $ 750,000, the next will rise by $ 25,000. In the lower competition, his salary will be $ 70,000.