What May the Patrik Laine Commerce Look Like?
Dan Kingerski of Montreal Hockey Now: For sure 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 an enormous dilemma.
Laine has a 10-team no-trade record. One presumes Pittsburgh isn’t on this record. 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 couple of groups away. Columbus thinks they’ll get a fairly good return however with a small market, expectations needs 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. Possibly Dubas dangles a second-round choose and/or a second-tier prospect. The fact is Columbus might 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 area. This additionally expects to be a long-term deal. The query is for a way lengthy on each counts.
Moritz Seder – Detroit Pink Wings – The $8.6 million quantity appears to be a pleasant, random quantity typically tossed round. Jake Sanderson, Rasmus Dahlin, and Owen Energy all obtained shiny offers locking up their prime years. Seider performs protection extraordinarily properly and contributes greater than properly sufficient offensively. It’s a matter of when and the way a lot.
Lucas Raymond – Detroit Pink Wings – Now, Raymond may very well be differnet. Whereas Steve Yzerman may 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’s going to get carried out when it will get carried out.
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Seth Jarvis – Carolina Hurricanes – That is a kind of offers that looks like it’s reasonably shut. A greenback quantity may very well be agreed on that is available in round $8 million AAV over eight years.
