The Los Angeles Kings could take a look at bringing Scott Laughton back after the season
Dennis Bernstein: Los Angeles Kings GM Ken Holland said back on the trade deadline that he’d wait until after the season to come to a decision whether to take a look at extending forward Scott Laughton or not. Laughton might be 32-years-old when next season starts. If his play keeps up, and he’s searching for an inexpensive amount and term, he might be brought back.
The Philadelphia Flyers have two pending RFAs in Trevor Zegras and Jamie Drysdale to cope with this offseason
Anthony Di Marco of Every day Faceoff: 25-year-old pending RFA Trevor Zegras has two years of restricted free agency before becoming UFA eligible. Sources say the Philadelphia Flyers imagine his two remaining RFA years needs to be around his $5.75 million AAV. Buy UFA years will cost more. As a UFA, he might be within the $9 to $9.5 million range.
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If taking a look at a six 12 months deal, somewhere within the $7.5 million to $8.5 million would make sense. Zegras could search for a shorter deal in hopes of cashing in big in a couple of years because the salary cap continues to rise.
The Flyers even have one other pending RFA who wil be searching for a raise – defenseman Jamie Drysdale. The soon to be 24-year-old is carrying a $2.3 million cap hit. The Flyers view him as their No. 4 Dman behind Travis Sanheim, Cam York and Rasmus Ristolainen.
Sources say Drysdale’s RFA years might be between $3 and $4 million, and that the Flyers would really like to maintain his number below York’s $5.15 million cap hit. A five-year deal at $5 million per, or a four-year deal around $4.5 million per, would make sense.
The Pittsburgh Penguins don’t plan on moving Erik Karlsson
TSN: Pittsburgh Penguins GM Kyle Dubas hasn’t been pleased with Pierre LeBrun for putting on the market that defenseman Erik Karlsson might be a trade chip for the Pittsburgh Penguins this offseason. LeBrun said he included him within the potential offseason trade candidates article was because after his $6 million bonus is paid out on July 1st, he’ll only cost $1.5 million in salary.
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“So, these teams are telling me, yeah, well, we might have interest in him. Here’s the thing: for a similar reason they’d have interest, it’s the identical reason why Kyle Dubas says he wants to maintain him, because he desires to proceed to bring young players around his veteran core. He believes Erik Karlsson can still be an enormous a part of that moving past this 12 months, so he doesn’t intend to maneuver him.”
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