On Salary Arbitration Offers …
Elliotte Friedman: The Red Wings offered $4.1 million and Tomas Tatar asked for $5.3 million.
Elliotte Friedman: The Blues asked for a two-year deal for Colton Parayko at $3.4 million and $3.6 million. Parayko asked for one-year at $4.85 million.
On the Colorado Avalanche …
Mike Chambers of the Denver Post: The Avs re-signed RFAs Gabriel Bourque, Felix Girard and Duncan Siemens to one-year, two-way contracts.
Unsigned RFAs include Nikita Zadorov, Matt Nieto and Rocco Grimaldi.
On the Nashville Predators …
Adam Vingan: The Predators have signed RFA Pontus Aberg to a two-year, $1.3 million deal.
Adam Vingan of The Tennessean: The Predators re-signed Frederick Gaudreau to a three-year, $2 million deal. The first two years are two-way deals at $650,000 in the NHL and $70,000 in the AHL. The third-year of the deal is a one-way deal at $700,000.
On the Boston Bruins …
Joe Haggerty of CSNNE: The Bruins re-signed Austin Czarnik to a one-year, two-way deal worth $650,000 in the NHL.
On the Detroit Red Wings …
Ansar Khan: The Red Wings re-signed Martin Frk to a one-year, two-way deal – $650,000 in the NHL and $250,000 in the AHL.
On the Tampa Bay Lightning …
Joe Smith: The Lightning sign Michael Bournival to a one-year, two-way deal.
On the Washington Capitals …
Fluto Shinzawa of the Boston Globe: Capitals GM Brian McLellan on the leverage that Evgeny Kuznetsov had with the KHL.
“We went a little above where we thought we were going to be,” MacLellan acknowledged in a conference call following the signing, “initially because of the situation Kuznetsov was in — his ability to go play in Russia for two years, earn as much money or more than he was making here, then come back as a UFA. He had the leverage. We lost our arbitration leverage with his ability to do that. We had to comply with his demands. If you look at it in the total scope, I think he’s going to be a top-end center in the league. Next year and going forward, it’s going to be a good contract.”
