Rising cap modifications place Kaprizov, the Wild, and others
TSN: Minnesota Wild proprietor Craig Leipold is assured that GM Bill Guerin can get a deal completed with Kirill Kaprizov. The rising wage cap is complicating issues.
“That’s a variety of new cash within the system that, frankly, a yr or two in the past we actually had no concept was going to be accessible,” Leipold mentioned. ”So, it does change issues, however we’ve to vary with it.”
May Anze Kopitar’s two-year deal be a blueprint for Artemi Panarin?
Sportsnet: Elliotte Friedman on his 32 Ideas podcast was speaking about New York Rangers pending UFA ahead Artemi Panarin, and he wonders if Anze Kopitar’s two-year extension with the LA Kings for $7 million a season that he signed simply earlier than his thirty sixth birthday, could possibly be a blueprint for Panarin’s subsequent deal. Panarin will flip 34 subsequent month.
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“I perceive, sooner or later within the low season, the Rangers had that form of conceptual dialog with Panarin: ‘Is there a means you might do for the Rangers what Kopitar did for the Kings?’” Friedman mentioned on 32 Ideas. “Clearly, at this level and time, it hasn’t occurred. I don’t know the place that’s going to go, I don’t know if that’s going to be a chance, however I do know the 2 sides had the dialog and, clearly, at this level, Panarin is unsigned.”
The Vancouver Canucks and Kiefer Sherwood are speaking extension
Ben Kuzma of The Province: 30-year-old Kiefer Sherwood is coming into the ultimate yr of his contract at $1.5 million. He’s coming off a 19-goal, NHL document 462 hits, season. Extension talks went quiet earlier this offseason, and he switched brokers in August. The perimeters are speaking and so they’ll proceed.
“We like Kiefer lots and he suits in with the group, however there’s no rush. We proceed to speak. I’ve a reasonably good relationship with many of the brokers, so nothing is actually going to vary right here.”
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