2021 NHL off-season thread

[Splendid Splinter]

What a great career.

 

[Cosmo]

Expansion draft is just eight days away. One mock: https://thehockeywriters.com/seattle-kraken-mock-expansion-draft/

 

[Moderator1]

If the Caps can get that haul for Kuznetsov, I'll drive him to Montreal myself.

 

[The Big Ragu]

If the Caps can get that haul for Kuznetsov, I'll drive him to Montreal myself.

When you get to the border, I'd just make sure his luggage doesn't have anything problematic in it.

 

[Tighthead]

If the Caps can get that haul for Kuznetsov, I'll drive him to Montreal myself.

You know what's going on with Drouin right?

Habs pick is 31st overall, and Chiarot is a middle pairing guy with one year left on his deal.

 

[Moderator1]

The first they mention is for next year. And I don't know the details of what is going on with him. But players and a first for a flake? Deal.

 

[The Big Ragu]

If Kuznetsov put in his usual effort in Montreal, they would eat him alive. He has a no-trade clause, right? Would he even go there?

 

[dixiehack]

When you get to the border, I'd just make sure his luggage doesn't have anything problematic in it.

This young man has had a very trying … season, with the litigation, the notoriety, his subsequent deportation to Canada and that country's refusal to accept him

 

[Jake from State Farm]

They signed for 13 years
They made nine

Cutting Zach Parise, Ryan Suter together needed 'to keep moving forward,' Wild's GM says

 

[JC]

They signed for 13 years
They made nine

Cutting Zach Parise, Ryan Suter together needed 'to keep moving forward,' Wild's GM says

Except you have 14.9 million in dead cap space between 23-25. Good luck keeping Kiprisov.

 

[Regan MacNeil]

If that’s really what they’re expecting in a trade, no wonder everyone wants out.

 

[Tighthead]

 

[JC]

Imbedded media.

 

[Jake from State Farm]

Another buyout

Panthers buy out 2 years of Yandle's contract

 

[Jake from State Farm]

Except you have 14.9 million in dead cap space between 23-25. Good luck keeping Kiprisov.

Doesn’t sound like they were exactly team leaders

Souhan: Wild wanted both Zach Parise and Ryan Suter gone

 

[dixiehack]

I’d be ok with the Preds bringing back Suter on a cheap contract. No one can find the owners anyway, so he can’t go running to them.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Ah, hell.

Columbus Blue Jackets goalie Elvis Merzlikins says his teammate Matiss Kivlenieks "died a hero" after saving him and his pregnant wife from the errant fireworks blast that killed the 24-year-old.

"He saved not just many lives, but when it happened, I was standing 20, 30 feet back of him and I was hugging my wife," Merzlikins said at Kivlenieks' memorial service Thursday in Upper Arlington, Ohio. "He saved my son, he saved my wife, and he saved me."

Merzlikins' wife, Aleksandra, is in her third trimester, and Merzlikins said their son's second name will be Matiss in honor of his teammate. Kivlenieks was living in Ohio with Merzlikins, who called his fellow Latvian player "my little brother."

Kivlenieks died from chest trauma with major damage to his heart and lungs after being hit with an errant firework at a July 4 backyard party at the Michigan home of Blue Jackets goaltending coach Manny Legace. The party was also a wedding celebration for Legace's daughter, Sabrina.

In saying Kivlenieks died a hero, Merzlikins noted, "That's not just what I said. That's what the doctor said. ... And as Sabrina said, he saved his last puck."​

Kivlenieks 'died a hero' saving Merzlikins, wife

 

[Jake from State Farm]

Good start

 

[Tighthead]

Interesting. I would have expected more deals by now.

Leddy is a nice acquisition.

Lists come out tomorrow.

Edit: Now the Isles need a D to expose.

 

[HappyCurmudgeon]

Few other moves.

Rangers acquire rights to F Barclay Goodrow from Lightning for 7th round pick. Goodrow slated to be UFA

Canucks acquire Jason Dickinson from Stars for third-round pick.