Chris Wassel

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A Look Into Nikita Kucherov’s Eight Year Contract Extension With The Tampa Bay Lightning

Nikita Kucherov signed an eight-year, $76 million extension with the Tampa Bay Lightning on Tuesday. Tampa Bay keeps their top scorer in place. What does this all mean? What impact may it have down the road? Let's take a look.…

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A Look Into Tomas Hertl’s Four Year Contract With The San Jose Sharks

Tomas Hertl signed a four-year, $22.5 million contract with the San Jose Sharks last Monday. San Jose keeps one of their core players in place. What does this all mean? What impact may it have down the road? Let's take…

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A Look Into Logan Couture’s Eight-Year Extension With The San Jose Sharks

Logan Couture signed an eight-year, $64 million extension with the San Jose Sharks on June 30th. San Jose keeps one of their core centers in place. What does this all mean? What impact may it have down the road? Let's…

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A Look Into Ryan McDonagh’s Seven Year Contract Extension

Ryan McDonagh signed a seven-year, $47.25 million extension with the Tampa Bay Lightning over the weekend. Tampa Bay keeps one of their core defensive piece in place. What does this all mean? What impact may it have down the road?…

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A Look Into Drew Doughty’s Eight-Year Contract Extension

Drew Doughty signed an eight-year, $88 million extension with the Los Angeles Kings over the weekend. Los Angeles keeps their core defensive piece in place. What does this all mean? What impact may it have down the road? Let's take…

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NHL Free Agent Period: New Jersey, Toronto, and more

New Jersey: Who stays and who goes? Abbey Mastrasco of NorthJersey.com:  Free agency begins July 1st and one of the bigger names New Jersey has in the UFA market is Patrick Maroon. No true consensus exists but the feeling is…

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NHL Rumors: Tavares, Tavares, Tavares!

The John Tavares Calculator The TSN.ca staff compiled this to illustrate how many dollars it may take to sign Tavares. Please understand that locations have some advantages and disadvantages. Toronto pays more in taxes but has endorsements and U.S. dollars last…

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NHL Rumors: More Free Agents, Trade Talk, and Paul Stastny

Free agent questions to ponder Tom Gulitti of NHL.com answers some important questions as free agency approaches. While John Tavares weighs his options, and Erik Karlsson waits for Ottawa, there is still news. Where does James van Riemsdyk sign? Will…

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NHL Rumors: Erik Karlsson, John Tavares, John Moore, and Carter Hutton

More on John Tavares plus musings Pierre LeBrun of The Athletic reports that the sweepstakes are underway. Pat Brisson and CAA determined to funnel the applicants through this week. There are five teams making pitches in person with another 2-3…

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NHL Free Agent Analysis: John Carlson Re-Signing With The Washington Capitals

John Carlson re-signed with the Washington Capitals over the weekend. This contract pays him $64 million over eight years. There exists some interesting signing bonuses including the lockout proof year. Carlson comes off a career year and an excellent playoff…

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NHL Free Agent Analysis: Ilya Kovalchuk Signing With The Los Angeles Kings

Ilya Kovalchuk agreed in principle to a three year, $6.25 million AAV deal over the weekend that can be made 'official' on July 1st. By now, there have been several articles floating out there on expected impacts. Let's do something a…

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NHL Trade Analysis: Washignton Sends Philipp Grubauer and Brooks Orpik to Colorado for a Draft Pick

It is time for a little NHL Trade Analysis as Philipp Grubauer has been traded from Washington to Colorado. The entire deal consists of Brooks Orpik and Grubauer heading to the Avalanche for a second-round pick (47th) tonight. This serves…

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