Alexander Nikishkin may get an early release from SKA but Ivan Demidov likely won’t
Marco D’Amico of RG.org: Montreal Canadiens prospect Ivan Demidov led KHL rookies and SKA with 19 goals and 49 points this season. Despite that, the 19-year-old averaged under 14 minutes a game and was a healthy scratch of their playoff game last night. Demidov’s contract expires after the season, on May thirty first, and a few wonder if that is punishment for not extending with SKA and his plans to move to North America next 12 months.
A source said once his KHL season is over, he’ll join their MHL team.
Carolina Hurricanes prospect Alexander Nikishkin isn’t MHL eligible and SKA has agreed to his early release.
So Demidov’s Canadiens debut will likely wait until next fall in response to the source, with the one scenario being that if the Canadiens made it to the Stanley Cup Final and he signs a deal on June 1st.
NHL Rumors: It’s Setting As much as be an Interesting Offseason
The Montreal Canadiens could also be willing to overpay in a trade this offseason
Eric Engels of Sportsnet: The Montreal Canadiens are making a playoff push this 12 months, and so they’ll enter the offseason, at any time when that’s, with salary cap space to work with and a stash of draft picks. They were the trade deadline to bolster them for a run this 12 months, but nothing presented itself that they like enough to drag the trigger.
They’ll proceed their seek for a top-six forward. GM Kent Hughes said they may very well be willing to overpay in a trade.
“We’re not going to enter free agency like a bunch of drunken sailors and get stuck with eight-year deals that we wish we could get out of the minute we get into them,” Hughes said, “but I feel we’re probably closer to overpaying when it comes to what we hand over in assets to amass a player.”
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