Scouting the Montreal Canadiens and Buffalo Sabres
Stu Cowan: Scouts listed to attend final night time’s Montreal Canadiens – Buffalo Sabres recreation included the Boston Bruins (2), Buffalo Sabres (2), Chicago Blackhawks, Colorado Avalanche, Columbus Blue Jackets (2), Dallas Stars, Detroit Purple Wings, Edmonton Oilers (2), Los Angeles Kings, New Jersey Devils, New York Islanders, Philadelphia Flyers
Souting the Philadelphia Flyers and Seattle Kraken
Adam Kimelman: Scouts listed to attend final night time’s Philadelphia Flyers – Seattle Kraken recreation included the Chicago Blackhawks, Buffalo Sabres, Detroit Purple Wings, Vegas Golden Knights, New York Rangers, Montreal Canadiens, Washington Capitals, Boston Bruins, Winnipeg Jets, St. Louis Blues, Tampa Bay Lightning, Toronto Maple Leafs, and the Dallas Stars.
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The Utah Mammoth need to observe the Montreal Canadiens path with extending high gamers
The Sheet with Jeff Marek: David Pagnotta speaking with Jeff Marek about how the Utah Mammoth might look to observe the Montreal Canadiens wage construction when extending Logan Cooley and different core items.
** NHLRumors.com transcription
Pagnotta: “You recognize, Utah has checked out what the Montreal Canadiens, I believe a number of groups have, fairly frankly, which are what the Canadians have executed with a few of their high guys. And never essentially from a restrict perspective, however everybody’s going to take a smidge much less, as a result of we’re going to do that collectively, and we’re going to maintain this unit collectively for an prolonged time frame.
So like you already know, it began with Nick Suzuki, however clearly, there’s different expertise on the market, if it climbs over that determine, so be it. Noah Dodson is available in, prime instance, 9.5 (million), making significantly extra, however he took much less as effectively. Lane Hutson taking much less as a way to stick round.
And on the, within the grand scheme of issues, 150, 250 grand you’re saving per 12 months on an AAV, however you get 10 guys doing that, that’s a good quantity of cap house to make the most of shifting ahead.
NHL Rumors: No Urgency for Logan Cooley to Signal an Extension
I believe Utah, in some method, needs to type of mimic that in their very own type, and have sure guys which are going to be on the high. And if the bar is about with a man like Logan Cooley, whom they anticipate being their main weapon, and positively him and his camp imagine that he, he’s going to be one among their high guys persistently for years on finish. How does that look, numbers-wise? And on the identical time, do we have now to make that sort of dedication now versus 4 or 5 years from now?”
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