The Anaheim Ducks will match any offer sheet for Leo Carlsson
Elliotte Friedman: Have heard that the Anaheim Ducks will match any attempted offer sheet of Leo Carlsson. It’s one of the reasons they haven’t really made any moves, as they want to make sure they are in a good cap position to do so.
Tampa Bay Lightning GM on if they are done
Eduardo A. Encine: Tampa Bay Lightning GM Julien BriseBois, when asked if they are done: “We’ve added a player that’s probably gonna play about 20 minutes a night for us…really reliable. We’re better than we were yesterday when we last spoke. If there’s another opportunity for us to be even better, we’ll capitalize on it if we can.”
NHL Rumors: Minnesota Wild, and the Tampa Bay Lightning
The Edmonton Oilers could be looking to add a top-six winger
Daily Faceoff: Tom Gazzola, when asked what the Edmonton Oilers may still be looking to do this offseason.
Tyler Yaremchuk: “What do you think Stan Bowman still wants to do here before he heads off to the cottage?
Gazzola: “I think they probably still want a top-six forward. You know, they have a lot of depth guys, let’s call them, and there’s a lot of veteran players on this roster. And good teams, contenders, have good NHL players from top to bottom. Not guys that are tweeners trying to prove themselves.
And we’ve seen in the past here in Edmonton, I think Peter Chiarelli was guilty of doing it, leaning too much in 2017 on Jujhar Khaira, Matt Benning, and Drake Caggiula, and those guys weren’t ready. And the Oilers went from a team on the cusp of making the Conference Final.
Getting rid of, you know, remember they got rid of (Jordan) Eberle, people look at that, go, that wasn’t great. And they got rid of Patty Maroon and a bunch of veterans.
But those are NHL guys, and here I look at this roster and there’s a lot of depth and solid careers of proven NHL players, so that’s important.
NHL Rumors: Minnesota Wild, Winnipeg Jets, and the Nashville Predators
But yeah, if they’re going to add something, they probably want another guy that could play in the top-six and not just put like a placeholder in there or somebody trying to find his game at the NHL level. Ie. Ike Howard.
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