2024-25 NHL News and Notes.

Murby

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Mar 16, 2006
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The Flyers are reuniting Kuzmenko with Michkov and Pelletier looks to be a depth piece. Kuzmenko's contract is up after this year.

I wonder if they are positioning themselves to go after McDavid after next year. Farabee gets 5m off the books the next 2 seasons.
McDavid isn’t going anywhere.
 

cshea

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Nov 15, 2006
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This might only interest a nerd like me but I found a note in Friedman's 32 Thoughts about the Rantanen trade very interesting. The note was inspired by the Doncic trade in the NBA where apparently the Jazz were involved but had no idea that Doncic was the trade they were facilitating (I don't really follow the NBA so may have butchered something here).

Apparently this is pretty common in the NHL with 3rd party brokers and the Blackhawks had no idea that Rantanen was the player they were retaining on. When teams involve a 3rd party to retain salary, they typically give them just a number. Since teams can sort of figure it out by doing math apprently most of the times they give a number higher than what they actually need to be retained. Might just interest a process nerd like me but I found it fascinating.

View: https://twitter.com/FriedgeHNIC/status/1887502295853649934