Can the Vancouver Canucks afford to increase Elias Lindholm?
Sekeres and Value: Frank Seravalli when requested in regards to the Vancouver Canucks newly acquired pending UFA and the potential price to re-sign him.
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Matt Sekeres: “What are the possibilities are he’ll re-sign right here? What’s the fee vary on this participant Frank? Trigger in transferring (Andrei) Kuzmenko, they open up $5.5 million from subsequent 12 months’s cap.”
Seravalli: “It’s costly. It’s, there was a number of discuss in Calgary within the preseason that Lindholm was in search of a quantity that began with a 9. And even when it’s within the eights, I don’t, I simply don’t see a path for the Canucks to have the ability to afford that.
Perhaps there’s another surgical procedure carried out. Perhaps he’s so good and suits so properly that you don’t have any selection however to make different strikes in an effort to make one thing like that occur.
However with Petterson’s new deal that he’s owed. With the following deal for Filip Hronek, which I proceed to pound my fist on the desk and say that that’s a quantity that begins with an eight. I simply don’t see, the mathematics isn’t mathing for me.”
Will the Winnipeg Jets look to improve their blue line?
Pierre LeBrun of The Athletic: One supply thought that the Winnipeg Jets have been the runners-up for Elias Lindholm. They acquired Sean Monahan shortly after Lindholm was traded to the Canucks.
Murat Ates of The Athletic: (mailbag) It’s doable that the Winnipeg Jets signal Rutger McGroarty to his entry-level contract after his NCAA season on the College of Michigan is finished. That stated as they’re at present wanting, it wouldn’t be straightforward for him to get ice time and it could be in his finest curiosity to return to Michigan subsequent 12 months.
Assume that the Jets may wish to add a defenseman on the deadline. One agent thought they’d be in search of one. Jets GM Kevin Cheveldayoff when requested on Friday about buying a defenseman.
“We’ve time between now and the deadline to proceed to evaluate and proceed to take a look at and proceed to judge. The work on the ice is barely going to get more durable, and the work off the ice isn’t going to cease.”
Chris Tanev wouldn’t be a simple commerce given their wage cap. Different rental choices may very well be Philadelphia Flyers defensemen Sean Walker and Nick Seeler.
Nate Schmidt‘s place on the Jets blue line for subsequent season may very well be in danger. He’ll be within the ultimate 12 months of his contract at a $5.95 million cap hit.
