End of the Colorado Avalanche Jonathan Drouin has shared that he hopes to re-sign with the team this summer, according to Meghan Angley of TheDNVR.com (Twitter link). Drouin joined the Avalanche on a one-year, $825,000 deal last July and looked great in their system, recording a career-high 56 points. He appeared in 79 games, the second most he played in any of his 10 NHL seasons, behind the 2018-19 campaign.
Drouin seemed to find his footing with the Avalanche and now hopes to solidify his future with the club. He ranked fourth on the team in scoring and performed admirably. Gabriel LandeskogThe role of the second line That should be enough to earn him a substantial boost to his sub-$1 million salary this season, though he’ll still have to settle for a cheaper deal as Colorado has just $15 million to re-sign its 11 agents. free, included Sean Walker and Alexander Georgiev.
Other league notes:
- Edmonton Oilers expected to be without forward again Adam Henrique For Game 6, head coach Kris Knoblauch shared with Daniel Nugent-Bowman of The Athletic (Twitter link). Knoblauch also shared that the Oilers will have an extra forward in warmups, with one forward in the lineup questionable due to illness. Henrique has missed five of the six games in this series and hasn’t been particularly effective when he is on the ice, with just two points in six postseason games so far. Connor Brown will remain in the lineup in Henrique’s absence, while one of Sam Carrick, Sam Gagnereither Adam Erne He will probably skate as a precautionary extra forward.
- A pair of Boston Bruins could join the Czech team at the World Championship, with Czech news outlet iDNES.cz reporting that both David Pasternak and pavel zacha He could join the team on Monday. That decision will be made by the general director. Petr Nedved and deputy general manager Martin Havlat, who shared that Pastrnak and Zacha will undergo a medical evaluation on Sunday. These would be substantial additions to a Czech squad that already leads Group A, with four wins in six games. They recently added the Carolina Hurricanes forward Martin Necas after their elimination and are now set to add two more difference-makers, a substantial boost ahead of their Tuesday showdown with Team Canada, their group stage finale.
- Best prospect of the 2024 NHL Draft Michael Brandsegg-Nygard has signed a one-year contract with the current SHL champions: Skelleftea AIK. Brandsegg-Nygard spent the season in HockeyAllsvenskan, Sweden’s second division league, where he scored 18 points in 41 games. He also recorded five points in five World Youth games and 12 points in nine international friendlies with Norway’s U-20 team, and is currently one of six scorers on Norway’s World Championship squad. It’s been a good year for Brandsegg-Nygard, the fifth-ranked European player according to NHL Central Scouting. He should only add to the momentum of him in a striking and highly rated Skelleftea team next year.
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