The Edmonton Oilers may match the commerce bundle for Mikko Rantanen
Ryan Rishaug: The Edmonton Oilers and Mikko Rantanen’s reps talked a couple of attainable contract extension in keeping with sources. The cash would have been greater than what he received from the Dallas Stars.
What the Oilers have been providing as much as purchase him wasn’t sufficient to get a deal finished for the Hurricanes.
The Oilers additionally checked out Pittsburgh Penguins Richard Rakell and Chicago Blackhawks Ryan Donato.
The Toront Maple Leafs made it clear to Mitch Marner they wish to re-sign him however requested if he needed to go to Carolina
TSN: Chris Johnston wrote within the Athletic that the Toronto Maple Leafs and Carolina Hurricanes additionally mentioned a Mitch Marner for Mikko Rantanen commerce. Each are pending UFAs.
The Maple Leafs made it clear that they wish to signal Marner to a contract extension however gave him the choice to go to Carolina if he needed as he holds a full no-movement clause. Marner mentioned that he needed to stay in Toronto for the remainder of the 12 months after which resolve on his future within the offseason.
Marner didn’t wish to get into his future on Saturday.
“I’m not going to get into this contract stuff. I’ve been very grateful and I’ve cherished my time being a Leaf. That’s I’ll depart it with you guys.”
Johnston wrote that Matthew Knies and draft picks have been additionally mentioned.
The New Jersey Devils have been concerned with Mikko Rantanen and Brock Nelson
James Nichols of NewJersey Hockey Now: There have been a number of stories saying that the New Jersey Devils confirmed curiosity in each Mikko Rantanen and Brock Nelson earlier than the commerce deadline. That they had a lot of LTIR cap area to work with.
“We tried. However if you begin taking a look at, not solely the quantity of capital you’ve got, however the belongings that we thought we had, and generally you don’t have sufficient for sure groups,” Fitzgerald mentioned. “However we tried. We tried to with sure gamers, it wasn’t like we have been going out and getting three gamers on expiring offers due to that cap area. We needed to be strategic about it, and reasonable too. As a result of the gamers that went for lots of belongings, and now we have lots of belongings, however we didn’t have that many belongings.”
The Devils ended up including Daniel Sprong, Cody Glass, Brian Dumoulin and Dennis Cholowski.
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