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I think we're just seeing the ugly side of business in sports. Both parties want the best. Again we don't know if the $3-4m is a counter offer and not the starting offer from Verbeek. We're not hearing the whole story. Zegras's agent coudlve said we want $8m+ and Verbeek knowing how outrageous that is countered with $4m so they can meet in the middle somewhere. Like I said this is the ugly side of sports. I want to remind you that Rakell and Lindholm didn't sign their first RFA contracts 3 weeks into the regular season. If i recall they practiced in Sweden with an SHL club during the entire training camp and first weeks of regular season.

Obviously any player will be frustrated with this kind of situation. I don't need to be an expert hokcey insider to tell you that. But the anger and frustration you're sharing on the link stems from Elliott Freidman's speculation. Not a first hand account that he was told they're bitter and angry at management. The second link literally piggy backed off Friedman's speculation and ran with it.

I'm wondering how the younger guys on the team feel that their captain Jenner and franchise star Gaudreau publicly stated that there was nothing strange about the situation. And how they felt going through their phones was a good ice breaker getting to know eachother. This was notably stated earlier in the week before the investigation, so not sure if they felt pressure to protect themselves and management first. But even so, as a young player hearing the statements, I would feel a lack of unity from up top.

Torn achilles. We probably won't see him til 2024. Leo Carlsson come on down.

Here's an interview to get to know the next Ducks coach. He really dives into the way he sees the game and the different coaching styles he will instill compared to the Eakins year.

Derek Grant has moved on and signed with Zurich in the Swiss League. Adding this here just for informative purposes if anyone wonders whatever happened to him.

I believe this only applies to players under 20 who were drafted out of the CHL, and their rights still belong to the CHL team. Carlsson would be eligible to play in the AHL.

Looked at the last 4 major top 10 draft picks: McTavish $2.5m annual performance bonus Drysdale, Zegras, and Lindholm $850K annual performance bonus each For the hell of it looked at Ritchie too since he was a #10 pick and we gave him $500K the first year and $850K next two in performance bonus. Carlsson's incentives are significantly higher. I'm not sure if that entices him to want to start in Anaheim instead of the SHL.

It's a performance bonus heavy contract. Not sure if that guarantees him to start the season here with us.

I agree that Killorn's contract is too high, but in order to bring someone to a crap team with no prospect of being competitive in 2 years, you have to unfortunately overpay. When it comes to Henrique vs Killorn, I don't look at the comparable age here. Henrique's compete level is nowhere near Killorn's, nor is his history. With the constant losing atmosphere in the locker, the winning mentality Killorn brings with his extensive experience of battling deep in the trenches is invaluable (4 stanley cup runs). He brings a lot more to the locker room. Henrique has only made the playoffs twice, the second being a sweep. Again, I'd rather have someone who understands what it takes. I hope Klingberg lost his agents number. I believe he had an 8 yr $56+ million offer on the table by dallas 2 years ago. He'll never see that type of money ever again .

Because it's always doom and gloom with many on this platform. Getting tired of the impatient negativity. Many think being a GM is playing a video game and that you can convince and sign anyone on your team. Adding Killorn and Gudas is a great start in this off-season given the lack of locker room leadership and grit on this team. We'll see what Verbeek has up his sleeves with "more things to come".

It depends who hosts the tournament. For WJ that's usually the case since Canada and the US hosts most of these events. For WC it'll be on the larger ice surface. I believe Finland plays on a hybrid ice size somewhere in between NHL and IIHF size.

Here is a snippet of the rule: "Teams were required to protect any contracted players with no move clauses (NMCs) with one of the team's slots for protected players, unless the contract expired on July 1, 2017, in which case the NMC was considered void for the draft.[9][10] Players whose NMCs had limited no trade clauses had to still be protected". I assumed his 8 team NTC covered it, but i may be misinterpreting the rules.

he had a no movement clause and was required to be protected...yes i know, believe it or not, murray gave him a 2 year contract with a no movement clause.

Yea what I meant by my comment is that he was behind Brossoit and Hill in terms of support. Keep in mind also that they started the playoffs with Brossoit and Hill, and Brossoit got hurt.