2026-27 Minor Transactions

[Bender]

With all the money spent on the bottom six, hopefully that's enough dough to help him survive waivers.

With his GM spending that much on the 3/4 liners, Tverberg is going to have a tough time cracking the lineup.

Chayka had said the cost aspect won't keep other players from challenging for spots and that Rogers is willing to have extra money tied up in the minors as long as the best team is being iced.

 

[cw]

Chayka had said the cost aspect won't keep other players from challenging for spots and that Rogers is willing to have extra money tied up in the minors as long as the best team is being iced.

Yes, I heard him say that too.
The cost aspect does affect the cap when it exceeds the NHL minimum buryable in AHL $1.2M or whatever -waiving them doesn't shed their entire cap hit.
It gets awkward if Tverberg, for example, a guy Chayka watched for the last month of the Calder Cup playoffs, replaces $2.6M Duhaime, a player Chayka just signed, for example. The GM can't ignore perceptions. So it is harder for the AHLer to break through - it is not entirely on the basis of how well he's playing.
It is particularly tough for the AHLers when the GM signs a bunch of 3/4 liners though after a team placed 28th in the standings, that GM had some justification...

 

[cw]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2073878480484216912

If the above is accurate, Quillan & Villeneuve, who were eligible, did not file for arbitration
The Robertson brothers did.