An awfully compressed NHL summer season continues this week:
The Stanley Cup is being awarded Monday evening. The NHL Awards present is Thursday. The 2024 NHL draft is Friday and Saturday. Free company begins Monday, July 1.
That comes after two vital trades passed off final week: The New Jersey Devils acquired goaltender Jacob Markstrom from the Calgary Flames, and the Los Angeles Kings despatched middle Pierre-Luc Dubois to the Washington Capitals in change for netminder Darcy Kuemper.
To assist make sense of all of it, our reporters reached out to sources in entrance places of work across the league for his or her takes on the draft, trades and the free agent class.
So forward of this week’s flurry of motion, Ryan S. Clark, Kristen Shilton and Greg Wyshynski ship the newest buzz across the NHL: