Evander Kane’s agent has permission to seek advice from teams a couple of trade
Rick Dhaliwal: Dan Milstein, the agent for Vancouver Canucks forward Evander Kane, has permission to seek advice from teams to assist facilitate a trade.
Jeff Paterson: “Sit him out now. Acquiring teams don’t must see more. They know what they’re getting. Protect the asset and make space for younger players within the line-up.”
NHLRumors.com Note: The 34-year-old is within the last 12 months of his contract, carrying a $5.125 million cap hit and a $4 million salary. has a 16-team trade list. The Canucks sent the Oilers a fourth-round pick last June for Kane. He scored nine goals and added 15 assists in 52 games.
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No talks between the Toronto Maple Leafs and Scott Laughton yet
The Fourth Period: David Pagnotta reported on Monday that the Toronto Maple Leafs need to seek out a method to keep pending UFA forward Scott Laughton, but there haven’t been any meaningful talks between the 2 sides as of yet.
“They’ve not had any meaningful discussions or negotiations with respect to an extension,” Pagnotta said. “I believe there’s an understanding that they would love to have those discussions. He’s already proven to be a glue guy within the room … but they haven’t had those in-depth contract discussions yet together with his camp.”
The Detroit Red Wings have the advantage of a lot of salary cap space to work with
DFO Rundown: Jeff Marek on the Detroit Red Wings and their ability to not worry about cap hit due to their favourable salary cap position.
** NHL Rumors.com transcription
“And that’s where I have a look at a team just like the Detroit Red Wings, who’ve a great deal of cap space like that is, this is a bonus, Yzerman 12 months, right? Because the quantity of cap space that the Detroit Red Wings have is nearing ungodly.
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Like, they will do whatever they need once they want just about. And that, that’s a bonus, right? Like, for those who’re competing with one other team for the services of a player, ‘Hey, we’ll take him now.’ We’ll take the three weeks. That’s wonderful. We’ll take it. We will pay it. No problem. That’s a bonus and a luxury that the Red Wings have, that other, that other teams flat out don’t.
And you possibly can be certain, yeah, the, the Red Wings will probably be, then the Red Wings will probably be very much available in the market, they usually already are. Red Wings are very much available in the market, one forward, one defenseman. Does Yzerman get each? We’ll see.”
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