AROUND THE LEAGUE - 25-26

[Tciso]

Vegetable porn has taught me some cucumbers are body temperature. Don't worry Kenji, you don't have to be cool.

[Cousin Strawberry]

Mediots?

[Chef Boi RD]

Chef’s recipes are legendary

[Blob Mckenzie]

If you want to enjoy some remote schadenfreude, tune into coiler talk radio as the season approaches with McDavid unsigned heading into his final season. It puts all the Hughes pantywringing into context

What's your call on Jesus? He's 29 when this deal is done. He's a thoroughbred like Sid. He will be good till 40. All I hear is he wants a 4 year deal. Makes sense. Edmonton should sign it and thank their lucky stars. Trade him at 32 if need be. He wants to win. I can see Quinn only wanting five years and I don't blame him.

These guys want to win. It's a concept foreign to most people.

[Cousin Strawberry]

I think he resigns in Edmonton but agree it won't be for a long term deal. If he wanted that he would have signed it already as they surely would have offered the moon. I believe the most that can be signed for under this collective is 19.4/yr. Let's hope he bends the coilers over and demands the max

[Cornuck]

The Flames have signed Dustin Wolf to a seven-year, $52.5M extension

One full season on his resume - 7.5 per

[5thhorseman]

I think he resigns in Edmonton but agree it won't be for a long term deal. If he wanted that he would have signed it already as they surely would have offered the moon. I believe the most that can be signed for under this collective is 19.4/yr. Let's hope he bends the coilers over and demands the max

I wonder what the chances are of him signing at a hometown discount but over a very short-term. A show me contract with roles reversed. If management can't figure it out over X years, he's gone. For nothing.

[Megaterio Llamas]

He's off to a low-tax, low media, highly competitive, sunny location.

Gretzky established the getaway strategy.

[Chef Boi RD]

Jack Hughes causing a stir in the media today saying he would love to play on the same team with brother Quinn.

https://canucksarmy.com/news/vancouver- ... inn-hughes

E. Pettersson, E. Pettersson

For

J. Hughes, L. Hughes

Getterdun

[Meds]

Kaprizov just turned down $16M x 8 from Minnesota.

Even with projected cap increases, not sure what he’s hoping for. $20M x 7 under the new CBA?

Gotta think he doesn’t want to stay there beyond free agency.

[Cornuck]

Kaprizov just turned down $16M x 8 from Minnesota.
Gotta think he doesn’t want to stay there beyond free agency.

That's what I would read into it - they offer to make him the highest paid player, and he says "No thanks". Teams will need to start clearing cap.

[JelloPuddingPop]

Jack Hughes causing a stir in the media today saying he would love to play on the same team with brother Quinn.

https://canucksarmy.com/news/vancouver- ... inn-hughes

E. Pettersson, E. Pettersson

For

J. Hughes, L. Hughes

Getterdun

Nah, like the article says - Luke will likely sign a 5 year deal, that's what is left on Jack's deal - Quinn will sign to match (4 next, or 3 the year after), and the three of them will find themselves a team with cap space to play on.

Right about the time SJ's kids hit?? They will likely have the cap space.

[Megaterio Llamas]

The five players who were cleared in the sexual assault case will be eligible to return to the league this season.

NHL to reinstate players acquitted in Hockey Canada trial, make them eligible for games Dec. 1

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/652570 ... d=14066553

The five hockey players acquitted on sexual assault charges in the Hockey Canada trial will be eligible to return to the NHL later this year, the league announced Thursday.

Michael McLeod, Carter Hart, Dillon Dubé and Cal Foote are officially unrestricted free agents, per the decision, and can sign contracts with any team. The contracts can be registered with the NHL on Oct. 15, and the players can appear in a game on Dec. 1. They can begin conditioning with a team on Nov. 15, according to a league source.

Formenton is a Group 2 restricted free agent who remains on the Ottawa Senators’ reserve list. That means he has to sign with the team by Dec. 1 to be eligible for NHL games this season. Like the other players, he can begin conditioning Nov. 15 and playing games Dec. 1, but he signed a contract with the Swiss team Ambrì-Piotta last week that runs through the international break in December, making his situation somewhat murky.

The league had stated after the verdicts were announced on July 24 that it would be “reviewing and considering” the findings of Ontario Superior Court Justice Maria Carroccia.

All five players had been charged with sexual assault in connection to an alleged incident in June 2018 in which a woman known publicly as E.M. — her identity is protected by a publication ban — said she was sexually assaulted over the span of several hours in a London, Ont., hotel room. The players were in town for a Hockey Canada event celebrating their victory at the World Junior Championship earlier that year. McLeod had also been charged with being party to the offense.

In her decision, Carroccia said the prosecution had not proven its case and that she did not find the evidence of the complainant “credible or reliable.”

“Having found that I cannot rely upon the evidence of E.M., and then considering the evidence in this trial as a whole, I conclude that the Crown cannot meet its onus on any of the counts before me,” Carroccia said.

[Cornuck]

The Penguins have signed Marc-Andre Fleury to a professional tryout contract

Looks like he'll play in a exhibition game and retire a Penguin.

[Cousin Strawberry]

Carter Hart wil probably head to Edmonton. He's from the area and is apparently training in Sherwood Park right now.