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For the foreseeable future - until the UFA market recovers, RFAs are not going to be the usual non event they have typically been in the past. I'm sure more teams will work to get them re-signed sooner. There was no good way out for Utah. If they ever get the chance to return the favor to New...

Villeneuve is the last of the outstanding RFAs to sign

GFA in the regular season & playoffs for the Marlies was close to the same. PP jumped from 16.8% in the regular season to 22.4%. Lettirei was in on nearly half the PP goals. Shaw racked up PP pts too. Giordano took the PP over when Sullivan left for the NHL. The Marlies goalies (mainly...

So did Mark Giordano. Hope he is sticking around

Good for Gruden. Taking a 15th place team to win the Calder Cup is very special (never been done in the AHL or NHL) I didn't mind Lalonde from an outsiders perspective but he wasn't coaching me .. I'm not too keen on Alfredsson but I guess I have to give him a chance like Spezza - we have no...

Broadly, every team has a "list" but they can be substantially different. When I look at Colorado or Carolina, they still look to be comfortable contenders. Ditto for Canadiens, Flyers, Lightning, Oilers, Stars & Wild as comfortable playoff teams Vegas took some hits on their roster but I...

"They are hoping that he shows up healthy" is not a very reassuring choice of words. It remains something that is not solid. They're hoping Raddysh doesn't drop back from his 70 pt season to 2023-24 or before levels. They're hoping Bobrovsky's .877 save% last year is an aberration he can bounce...

I think he had agreed to go to Philly. But the possibility of Philly getting Carlsson (which they had not counted on) messed up Philly's need for another center so they put it on hold. Media went nuts speculating and reversing itself. Not official but fairly reliable :

https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/claude-giroux-returning-to-ottawa-senators-on-new-deal/

Their case for Giroux is extremely reasonable: 2025-26 82GP 49 pts, +20, .60ppg, 63.1% FOW% He wants to play one more year .. He's hardly missed any NHL games his entire career. He missed 1 game in his last 4 seasons - he's healthy That is a heck of a lot less risk than Bobrovsky or Tanev He's a...

There has been considerable chatter on Giroux Apparently, Oilers are out. Sens seem to be out Friedman alleges Leafs are the highest bidder Some report Giroux favors a return to Philly & is waiting to see if anyone can change his mind. I wonder about that and if it is really about Carlsson and...

I was looking at RFAs to poach before July 1 because the UFA market was so bad and I posted about doing that and that I expect GMs would exploit it. So if a fan is recognizing that, why wouldn't a GM be looking at it and looking at his team's exposure? Now, I didn't expect $90M offers (in part...

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

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...

We said something like that last season and when they signed Tanev and due to their older dmen Ages of their top 6 dmen during this season reach 31, 33, 33, 33, 35, 37 Andrae, who I currently regard as a 7th, until he proves otherwise, turns 25 this season. Before they hand out another Cup...

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.

His poor faceoffs concerned me too. I wouldn't be outraged But with the market the way it is, whoever gets him will have to overpay and that part concerns me

Ideally a defensive one to play with Rielly/OEL But I wonder about Villeneuve and not being waiver exempt ... Chayka doesn't seem very concerned about him - maybe due to his skating So I'm not sure. Still thinking it over.

I bet some agents for RFAs had a busy day today ...

It seemed obvious that something like this was coming. UFA market sucked. GMs are desperate to compete - pressured to win now to keep their jobs. Like trapped rats, they're going to scurry down every corridor of the CBA RFA maze looking for a way out. And here we are .. except I doubt it is...