The Bolts looked ready to bug out today. Cory Lavalette says the league has had discussions regarding Saturday's game in Tampa. It could be played on Sunday, since there is a football game at Carter Finley on Saturday...
The roster the Canes submitted does not include Jackson Blake. It has 13 forwards, 7 dmen and 2 goalies. Bryce Montgomery is the 7th dman. Fast is on IR, Stillman is on LTIR. There is no word on how they cleared Joakim Ryan off the roster, he was on the roster released by the Canes yesterday...
Tampa airport is closing at 9 am tomorrow, so I assume the Bolts will head out either later today or early tomorrow. I don’t think they’ll wait until Thursday to fly out.
Aston-Reese grew up playing with Labanc, now they’re NHL teammates.
The oddest claim goes to Vancouver, they claimed Jiri Patera from Boston. Why is that odd? They waived him last week and Boston claimed him. But now that he’s back to Vancouver, he can be sent to the AHL without being waived...
The Leafs signed old friends Max Pacioretty and Steven Lorentz to 1 year contracts. Both had been in camp on PTOs. Patches has a cap hit of $1.5 million with $873,770 in salary and the balance in performance bonuses. Lorentz is at $775k.
Edit: Patches gets half his performance bonus for...
With Hurricane Milton taking dead aim at Tampa, with landfall expected on Wednesday, the Bolts cancelled their preseason game with Nashville tonight. And the Florida Panthers cancelled their ring ceremony at Amerant Bank Arena, for which they charged admission with proceeds going to charity...
According to PuckPedia, the combination of Montgomery signing and putting Stillman on LTIR at the cap deadline tomorrow brings to Cames to within $3 of maximizing cap space.
https://x.com/puckpedia/status/1843031013003493697?s=61&t=ZT8KDHkGMyk7V3JAuh5_ag
Notably, Stillman and Ryan are still in the roster. Ryan was injured late in camp, Stillman was injured early and had just returned to full practices in the last few days.
The Canes will practice at Fort Liberty tomorrow. The final roster has to be in by 5 pm tomorrow.
The Canes cut down to 25. Blake is on the roster for now, the only kid to make it. Everyone but Honka was assigned to Chicago. Honka was assigned to HC Ajoie in Switzerland. Haffner and Grimaldi were released from their PTOs. Slavin the younger, Suzuki and Ty Smith were placed on waivers for...
Here is the breakdown from PuckPedia. It’s $23 million in bonuses.
Yr 1 $6M Base & 4M Signing Bonus
Yr 2 6M & 4M SB
Yr 3 5.5M & 2M SB
Yr 4 5M & 3M SB
Yr 5 5.5M & 2.5M SB
Yr 6 5.5M & 2.5M SB
Yr 7 5M & 2.5M SB
Yr 8 4.5M & 2.5M SB
Yr 3 to 6: No Move
Yr 7: 10 Approved team trade list
Yr 8: 10...
The inevitable became a reality. Thr Canes signed Skyler Brind’Amour to a 1 year, 2 way contract. He’ll get $775k in the NHL, $75k in the AHL.
https://www.nhl.com/hurricanes/news/canes-sign-brind-amour-to-one-year-two-way-deal
Which made it 5-3 Canes. Robinson had 2 goals, including the empty netter and an assist, Gagner had a goal and 2 assists, Slavin the younger and Nadeau had the other goals. Morrow had 2 assists. Andersen played the first 2 periods and made 29 saves on 31 shots. Martin finished and allowed 1...