Escrow increasing
Larry Brooks: “Second quarter escrow withholding rate increases from 11.5 to 13.5% in response to NHL’s downward adjustment of second quarter HRR.”
Allan Walsh: (noting on Brooks’ tweet) “NHL CBA: Sign an employment contract and 13.5% of your compensation gets withheld from your paycheck and returned to your employer.”
Pierre LeBrun: (noting on Brooks’ tweet) “Certainly noteworthy. Not only because of lower HRR projections but also because of exchange rate and increased player compensation.”
Pierre LeBrun: (noting on Brooks’ tweet) “And of those three factors I would rate the exchange rate as being No 1.”
Leafs sign one, make two AHL trades
Chris Johnston: The Toronto Maple Leafs signed defenseman Calle Rosen to a two-year contract extension worth $750,000 per season. It’s a one-way deal so it’s looking like he could be in their plans as an NHL option.
Toronto Marlies: The Marlies trade goaltender Jeff Glass to the San Diego Gulls for future considerations.
Anaheim Ducks: Traded defenseman Steven Oleksy to the Toronto Maple Leafs for forward Adam Cracknell.
Stamkos hits a milestone
NHL Public Relations: Tampa Bay Lightning forward Steven Stamkos became the first player selected in the 2008 NHL draft to reach 700 points.
NHL Public Relations: Stamkos joins Martin St. Louis (953 points) and Vincent Lecavalier (874 points) as the only Lightning players to hit 700 points.
Bryan Burns: Stamkos’ hat trick last night was his ninth in a Lightning jersey. He passed St. Louis who had eight. Lecavalier had six.
Seabrook and Keith to play their 1,000 game as teammates tonight
Brent Seabrook and Duncan Keith will play their 1,000th game as teammates tonight, the only pair of defensemen to do so in @NHL history.
Get ready with @NHLBlackhawks Pregame Live at 6:30 on @NBCSChicago!
📲: https://t.co/sYuJwpD6aM pic.twitter.com/gSQOaqlBfu
— Blackhawks Talk (@NBCSBlackhawks) December 11, 2018
Pending RFA forward Brayden Point
Brayden Point’s agent walking into contract negotiations knowing that McDavid, MacKinnon and Kucherov are the only players with more 5v5 primary points than his client since the start of last season pic.twitter.com/JU1ZeDWGn4
— Dimitri Filipovic (@DimFilipovic) December 11, 2018
Fancy pucks
From @frank_seravalli: The #NHL will test game pucks with a special coating that changes the colour of the league’s logo on the back of the puck when its temperature rises above freezing, to indicate to officials that the puck should be replaced https://t.co/iJoLwa92B9 #TSNHockey pic.twitter.com/WIYk2m6YsY
— TSN Hockey (@TSNHockey) December 10, 2018