Three Columbus Blue Jackets pending UFAs could head to market
Mark Scheig: It could be looking just like the Columbus Blue Jackets’ pending UFA forwards Boone Jenner and Mason Marchment, and defenseman Erik Gudbranson go to free agency on July 1st.
Blue Jackets GM Don Waddell is on the World Championships, but he did say that talks with their free agents will pick up sooner or later, they usually could re-sign a number of of them. But after the re-signing of Charlie Coyle, the probabilities of Jenner, Marchment, and Gudbranson going to free agency are greater.
Will Manny Malhotra be the subsequent head coach of the Vancouver Canucks, and will they draft his son at No. 3?
Sportsnet: Elliotte Friedman, on if Manny Malhotra will likely be the subsequent head coach of the Vancouver Canucks, and the way would that impact their potential first-round pick, as Malhotra’s son Caleb could possibly be on their radar with the No. 3 pick?
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Friedman: “They move pretty quickly on (Adam) Foote. You recognize, one in every of the challenges about attending to know the Canuckss for office now could be, there’s not a variety of resume to have a look at and say, ‘That is how they act,’ but their first decision is pretty fast. They might make this decision fast, too.
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I mean, like, to me, we talked concerning the familiarity. There’s no person they know higher. If he’s ready to educate within the NHL, then no person knows it greater than the three of those guys.
I’ll inform you something else too. The opposite answer to me that I assumed today was really telling was they were asked about Caleb Malhotra. And , I’ll say this: there are teams on the market who think that he’s a really serious candidate to be drafted by Vancouver. That this isn’t, , just lip service. Like they consider it’s real that if he’s there, he’s, he’s, he legitimately could possibly be drafted by the Canucks.
And when Ryan Johnson was asked about it, and it was a very good query, he didn’t say, ‘ we’ve got to check with Manny about it and see how he feels.’ He said, ‘I’m not nervous about that.’ I assumed that was an interesting answer.
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