The New Jersey Devils and Jacob Markstrom wish to get a contract extension labored out
The Fourth Period: The New Jersey Devils and Jacob Markstrom proceed their contract extension talks for a multi-year deal. The 35-year-old is within the final yr of his $6 million per deal. Either side have stated they wish to work one thing out.
Kevin Weekes reported final week that the Devils’ preliminary supply was for $5 million a season, although the variety of years wasn’t given.
League sources say that Markstrom could possibly be searching for extra money, and he hopes to get a deal finished quickly. The Devils have loads of cap area accessible for subsequent season, at present round $18 million.
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The place do the Montreal Canadiens and Lane Hutson go now?
TSN: Pierre LeBrun was requested concerning the probabilities that Lane Hutson and the Montreal Canadiens get an extension finished earlier than their season opener Wednesday evening. LeBrun notes that sides have tried, and round 10 days in the past, the Canadiens made an eight-year supply, which can have concerned some deferred cash. Hutson wasn’t desirous about deferring cash.
“So the place do they go now? I feel either side have form of retreated a bit which might be what they wanted to convey the temperature down in these talks. Yeah, in an ideal world they’d have an extension in place now, however they’ve received all yr. He’s a restricted free agent subsequent summer time and the Habs will wish to shield their wage cap tradition that they’ve had with their core gamers they usually hope they will come to a take care of a really particular participant in some unspecified time in the future.”
TSN: Darren Dreger was requested concerning the likelihood is that Lane Hutson and the Montreal Canadiens get an extension finished earlier than their season opener Wednesday evening. Dreger says that it’s unlikely and he can’t see them closing anytime quickly. There’s some hope that Canadiens GM Kent Hughes and Hutson’s brokers have a gathering as early as Thursday.
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“However frankly, Gino, there’s no assure that that assembly goes to occur. We all know for the previous couple of months, a number of weeks, that there have been on and off negotiations. We all know that at instances this has been an emotionally charged scenario between the Habs and their star younger defenceman. So, I feel proper now, all people is simply attempting to decrease the temperature within the course of and calm issues down.”
The Canadiens are searching for eight years, and Hutson is perhaps pushing for six.
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