What Might the Patrik Laine Commerce Look Like?
Dan Kingerski of Montreal Hockey Now: Evidently the Pittsburgh Penguins might use a goal-scorer like Patrik Laine. Pittsburgh needs to make noise within the playoffs and but doesn’t wish to strip the cabinet naked. That presents a giant dilemma.
Laine has a 10-team no-trade listing. One presumes Pittsburgh shouldn’t be on this listing. Columbus already paid $2 million so far as his signing bonus. So groups can be on the hook for $16.2 million actual {dollars} if there was zero retention.
Nonetheless that is sufficient to scare fairly a number of groups away. Columbus thinks they will get a fairly good return however with a small market, expectations ought to be tempered. Pittsburgh nonetheless has work to do to get the numbers to work.
Keep in mind the Jake Guentzel commerce right here as Dubas and Don Waddell have danced earlier than. Perhaps Dubas dangles a second-round choose and/or a second-tier prospect. The fact is Columbus may need to take what it could actually.
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Prime 10 RFA’s Most Notables And Rumors
Luke Fox and Rory Boylen of Sportsnet: Presently it’s seems like Jeremy Swayman heads the category of unsigned RFA’s. The Boston Bruins’ goaltender figures to get most of Boston’s remaining $8.6 million in cap house. This additionally expects to be a long-term deal. The query is for a way lengthy on each counts.
Moritz Seder – Detroit Purple Wings – The $8.6 million quantity appears to be a pleasant, random quantity usually tossed round. Jake Sanderson, Rasmus Dahlin, and Owen Energy all bought shiny offers locking up their prime years. Seider performs protection extraordinarily nicely and contributes greater than nicely sufficient offensively. It’s a matter of when and the way a lot.
Lucas Raymond – Detroit Purple Wings – Now, Raymond may very well be differnet. Whereas Steve Yzerman would possibly get pressured into an extended extension with Seider, there may be room for a mid-length extension with Raymond. It might take extra time however the expectation is it’ll get completed when it will get completed.
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Seth Jarvis – Carolina Hurricanes – That is a kind of offers that looks like it’s relatively shut. A greenback quantity may very well be agreed on that is available in round $8 million AAV over eight years.
