Do the Los Angeles Kings have their eye on Linus Ullmark?
Jimmy Murphy of Boston Hockey Now: The Los Angeles Kings might be one of many groups taking a look at Boston Bruins goaltender Linus Ullmark.
“There’s a marketplace for him,” the supply instructed BHN. “If I have a look at the groups out west – the Oilers, the Avalanche, and the Kings – I feel the Kings need one probably the most. I feel they actually like Ullmark.”
Proper-handed defenseman Matt Roy (pending UFA) and 22-year-old Arthur Kaliyev (pending RFA) may curiosity the Bruins.
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Tarik El-Bashir of Monumental Sports activities Community: Washington Capitals GM Brian MacLellan on the upcoming deadline.
“We’ve got every week left to make some selections. Our precedence can be the way forward for our membership. All selections will likely be based mostly on (that). It’s not, ‘Hey, we’re going to exit and hire a man for the playoffs.’ We’re not in that sport. We’re on the lookout for alternatives to seek out extra younger gamers, add extra younger gamers to our roster and compete—nonetheless compete.”
MacLellan on their pending UFAs Anthony Mantha, Joel Edmundson, Max Pacioretty, and Nicolas Aube-Kubel.
“We’re not going to sit down right here and simply dump gamers on the deadline,” MacLellan mentioned. “If one thing is sensible for us, if it’s a superb commerce and it’s good worth or it helps our group, we’ve got to contemplate it. However simply to blindly go in and say we’re simply eliminating all these guys, we’re not going to try this.”
A really perfect state of affairs could also be for MacLellan to accumulate one other first-round choose after which use that choose to accumulate a youthful roster participant(s).
MacLellan mentioned that had some preliminary talks with pending RFAs Rasmus Sandin, Connor McMichael, and Beck Malenstyn however nothing critical.