Jets Little out for the season
Scott Billeck of the Winnipeg Sun: Winnipeg Jets GM Kevin Cheveldayoff announced yesterday that forward Bryan Little won’t play next season after it was recommended that he not by his medical team.
“After consulting with all the doctors and getting all the information and taking the time to digest everything, it’s recommended by the doctor that Bryan Little does not play this coming season,” Cheveldayoff said. “What that means to the future, that will be addressed at the appropriate times. That’s essentially where things are at with Bryan.”
Virtanen files for arbitration
Irfaan Gaffar: Vancouver Canucks forward Jake Virtanen filed for salary arbitration.
Steen could be LTIR’d
Luke Fox: St. Louis Blues forward Alex Steen‘s health hasn’t progressed much this offseason. He has a year left on his deal and could be placed on the LTIR, which would help the Blues cap situation.
Kubalik was looking for long-term
Ben Pope: Dominik Kubalik said his side was trying to get a longer deal but settle for two years.
“Obviously we wanted to stay in Chicago, and stay there for longer. Both sides should be happy so that was my first goal. I’m happy, hopefully Chicago’s happy too.”
Salary breakdowns for Murray, Holtby and Brodie
Bruce Garrioch: Salary breakdown for Matt Murray‘s four-year, $25 million deal with the Ottawa Senators
2020-21: $4 million
2021-22: $6 million
2022-23: $7 million
2023-24: $8 million
Thomas Drance: Salary breakdown for Braden Holtby‘s two year deal with the Vancouver Canucks.
2020-21: $2.9 million
2021-22: $5.7 million
Bob McKenzie: Holtby doesn’t have a no-movement clause and would be expansion draft eligible. He has a limited no-trade clause.
Pierre LeBrun: Salary breakdown for T.J. Brodie.
2020-21: $2.5 million
2021-22: $5.0 million
2022-23: $5.0 million
2023-24: $7.5 million
All base salary no signing bonus
Leafs will be over the cap
Luke Fox: Teams can be 10 percent over the salary cap during the offseason. They are just over the cap and need to re-sign restricted free agents Travis Dermott and Ilya Mikheyev.
James Mirtle: The Toronto Maple Leafs are going to be about $3 million over the salary cap after. Trading Andreas Johnsson would just get them under the cap ceiling.
