The Minnesota Wild and Quinn Hughes are talking this week
Michael Russo: Consider that Minnesota Wild GM Bill Guerin can be meeting up Quinn Hughes and his agents this week in Michigan (in the event that they’ve haven’t already met this week). The Wild can be seeking to extend Hughes for five to eight years, but Hughes may very well be in search of three years to grow to be a UFA similtaneously his brother Jack’s deal expires in Recent Jersey.
Could the Montreal Canadiens be curious about a reclamation project from Columbus?
The Starr & D’Amico Show: Shaun Starr and Marco D’Amico talking about Columbus Blue Jackets forward Kent Johnson as a possible fallback if a Kirill Marchenko trade doesn’t occur. D’Amico can be a bit surprised if the Canadiens were curious about something like that.
** NHLRumors.com transcription
Starr: “Columbus Blue Jackets forward Kent Johnson, who’s going to show 24 in mid-October. And that is someone that plays on the left side, winger, the highest six player for the Columbus Blue Jackets. But you dive into his numbers, they usually’re not that great.
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So, what do you make of Kent Johnson, arguably as a Plan B fallback option, if, for instance, the Kirill Marchenko deal doesn’t come to to the fact? And is Kent Johnson that’s a player profile that, in your opinion, suits what the Montreal Canadiens are attempting to do?
D’Amico: “Like I don’t know that anything is imminent without delay, as early as my information got here in on, on Friday and Saturday. , obviously things can change at this portion of the summer, but I can be surprised if the Canadians would try one other reclamation project like that. I might.
And for the Columbus Blue Jackets, he’s at $1.8 million cap hit. Like, even when he marginally bounces back, which is predicted regardless of where he goes, it’s a contract 12 months. He’d still be a superb value on the salary cap. So to me, like, he has bounced back written throughout it, but is it to the purpose where he fills a legitimate need for the Montreal Canadiens?”
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