Kings sign Martin Chromiak to one-year contract

The Los Angeles Kings have re-signed right winger Martin Chromiak to a one-year, two-way deal, the club announced on Tuesday. 

Chromiak, 22, will have an average annual value of $775,000 through the 2025-26 season, after scoring a career-high 18 goals and 39 points in 69 AHL games with the Ontario Reign in 2024-25.

Still yet to make his NHL debut, Chromiak has now played parts of four seasons with the Reign, skating in 196 AHL games and posting 48 goals and 99 points, including 14 goals on the power play. 

At the same time, he has seven game-winning goals and 58 penalty minutes, while also scoring a goal and an assist in his five Calder Cup Playoff games to date. 

Initially selected in the fifth round, 128th overall in the 2020 NHL Draft, Chromiak was a top-line forward with the Kingston Frontenacs in the OHL for two seasons, playing alongside then exceptional-status forward, Shane Wright, now of the Seattle Kraken. 

With the Frontenacs, he scored 55 goals and 119 points, and led the team in goals with 44 in 2021-22. In addition to his time in the OHL, Chromiak also played with HC Dukla Trenčín of Slovak Extraliga, skating with the top division club as a young teenager and through the OHL’s Covid-cancelled 2020-21 season.

Internationally, Chromiak has represented Slovakia at two IIHF World Championship tournaments, in 2023 and 2025, as well as at the World Juniors in 2021 and the IIHF U18 World Championship in 2019.

After scoring 15 or more goals in his three full professional seasons with the Reign, Chromiak will hope to continue his development in the AHL and earn an NHL call-up for a regular-season contest. 

In the AHL, the Reign finished the season third in the Pacific Division with 90 points, while the NHL’s Kings finished second in the Pacific Division on 105 points, before falling out of the Stanley Cup Playoffs in the first round to the Edmonton Oilers.