{"id":471616,"date":"2025-07-02T10:27:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T14:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=471616"},"modified":"2025-07-02T10:27:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T14:27:06","slug":"tough-depth-forward-has-found-new-home-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/07\/02\/tough-depth-forward-has-found-new-home-today\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tough, Depth Forward Has Found a New Home Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, a small, but somehow not to be understated, move was made in signing a depth forward. Winger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/kaliyar01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-30_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Arthur Kaliyev<\/a> signs a new contract to join the Ottawa Senators. The deal isn&#8217;t a big one, but it is for Kaliyev. In turn, if it could pay off for his team, then everyone is laughing.<\/p>\n<h2>Arthur Kaliyev Signs a New Deal<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"hi\">Arthur Kaliyev<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elliotte Friedman (@FriedgeHNIC) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FriedgeHNIC\/status\/1940404355414605902?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 2, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/06\/30\/ottawa-senators-big-restricted-free-agent-goalie-re-signs\/\" target=\"_self\">Sens<\/a> current owner Michael Andlauer and general manager were working with the OHL&#8217;s Hamilton Bulldogs when Kaliyev captured the league title as a player. Eventually, he was drafted 33rd overall, in the 2019 NHL Entry Draft, by Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Kaliyev busted on the scene at the NHL level. In 2021-22, his first full NHL season, the product of Uzbekistan, ended up with 14 goals, 13 assists, and 27 points in 80 games played for the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/06\/30\/russian-forward-has-signed-new-contract\/\" target=\"_self\">Los Angeles Kings<\/a>. However, for whatever reason, his production has dropped off. Now he has missed some time with injury, but that&#8217;s not really enough to explain his reduction in points. He only managed 15 points in 51 games in 2023-24 for LA. Then, in 2024-25, he only appeared in 19 professional games, split between the NHL and AHL. In the NHL, it was with the New York Rangers.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Kaliyev gets a fresh start. This contract likely gets him a full-time gig on the fourth line. If he is able to produce, it will turn into something more, down the road.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo Credit: Terrence Lee-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, a small, but somehow not to be understated, move was made in signing a depth forward. Winger Arthur Kaliyev signs a new contract to join the Ottawa Senators. The deal isn&#8217;t a big one, but it is for Kaliyev. In turn, if it could pay off for his team, then everyone is laughing. Arthur [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4222,"featured_media":471619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,4547,4548],"tags":[3106,662],"class_list":["post-471616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-hockey","category-nhl","tag-arthur-kaliyev","tag-nhl-free-agency"],"modified_by":"Andrew Willis","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4222"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471616"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":471952,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471616\/revisions\/471952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}