NHL Morning Coffee Headlines – August 3, 2024
Panthers captain Aleksander Barkov is hungry for another Stanley Cup championship, the notable remaining restricted free agents, and more in today’s NHL Morning Coffee Headlines.
THE SCORE: Florida Panthers captain Aleksander Barkov has his heart set on winning the Stanley Cup again.
“We won the Cup, the greatest prize, but you want to feel the same feelings again,” said Barkov. That leaves you hungry. Winning the Cup helps us this coming season, but winning two in a row will no way be easy. Everyone needs to give it their all, everyone has to play his best game and, of course, you need a little bit of luck.”
Florida Panthers captain Aleksander Barkov (NHL Images).
SPECTOR’S NOTE: Winning consecutive Cups is not an easy feat. Only two teams (the 2016 and 2017 Pittsburgh Penguins and the 2020 and 2021 Tampa Bay Lightning) have accomplished the feat in the salary cap era. Still, it can be done. The Panthers have been to consecutive Cup Finals and return with most of their roster core (including Barkov) intact.
THE HOCKEY NEWS: Adam Proteau provides brief profiles of five young restricted free agents still awaiting new contracts from their clubs. He also examines the risks and rewards of signing them to long-term deals.
They include Carolina Hurricanes winger Seth Jarvis, Dallas Stars defenseman Thomas Harley, Boston Bruins goaltender Jeremy Swayman, and Detroit Red Wings defenseman Moritz Seider, and winger Lucas Raymond.
SPECTOR’S NOTE: All but Harley are coming off their entry-level contracts, giving their clubs leverage in their current negotiations. Some could end up with short-term “bridge” deals depending on their team’s salary-cap space. Swayman, meanwhile, opted not to go through arbitration again and is still in negotiations with the Bruins.
These players remaining unsigned at this stage in the offseason suggests they’re not interested in signing offer sheets with other clubs or no rival general managers are willing to go that route.
YARDBARKER: No contract extension talks are planned between the Dallas Stars and forward Evgenii Dadonov. The 35-year-old winger wants to see how this season plays out.
NEW JERSEY HOCKEY NOW: Former Devils forward Michael McLeod signed a one-year contract with KHL club Barys Astana. McLeod is one of five players to be charged with sexual assault in connection with an alleged incident in London, Ontario involving members of Canada’s World Junior team in 2018.
RG.ORG: Montreal Canadiens prospect Ivan Demidov has started training with SKA St. Petersburg for the upcoming KHL season with an eye on a possible departure to the NHL next year. He was chosen fifth overall by the Canadiens in the 2024 draft.
Demidov will spend this season in the KHL but will face competition from players such as recent addition Evgeny Kuznetsov. The Canadiens could negotiate a loan if he doesn’t secure a roster spot with SKA St. Petersburg.
GMs, make the dog days of NHL summer interesting. Someone put an offer sheet in.
Rare, by exciting to see.
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the Whole NHL offer sheet thing needs to be reviewed soon than latter….
its a very Obsolete tool that nobody uses
it need to be made more Exciting …….⁉️
Dadanov would be a nice pickup for a team looking for some offense! Of course at the right price!
I’d be wary of Dadonov, Sr. Yes, in 537 career games he’s scored 143 goals 178 assists for 82-game averages of 22g 27a 49 pts. And that may look enticing to a team desperately seeking offense.
But the last time he scored 20 was in 2021-22 with Vegas in 78 gp.
He then split the 2022-23 season with Montreal and Dallas, eventually playing 73 games and managed 7g 12a 19 pts, and this past season had 12g 11a 23 pts in 51gp.
And he turns 36 next March, costing $2,250,000 off the cap.
Dadanov would be a good pickup looking for a top 6 forward! Could get him for around 2 million!
Right now, Dadinov will be playing 4th line. He’s really been a non factor on the deep offense that the Stars have. I kinda wish they would have let him walk two years ago, and kept Max Domi. He scored a few key playoff goals 2023, but with the young kids coming up there’s really no room for him but 4th line.
Sure seems that way Starsfan. His best year – and the only time he played in all 82 games – was 6 years ago with Florida when he scored 28g 42a 70 pts, followed by 25g 22a 47 pts in the shortened (69 games) 2019-20 season. Since then he’s played 257 games with 52g 67a 119 pts for 82-game averages of 17g 21a 38 pts- stats more in line with a 4th line F.
There is lots of talk about the Ducks trading Zingras. And my Rangers are one team out of about 6 teams talking about him. Can you do an update, some story on if the Rangers have a shot or not. I read we had an offer on the table for him, Chytil, Kakko and good prospect Sykora off our AHL Hartford team. But no trade for two months now. He has said he wants to be traded to the Rangers. He is from Bedford, NY (Westchester county) so sore of wants to come home. But we have less that 1 million in cap space. But Chytil 4 1/2 million, Kakko 2.5 million and Sykora less than 1 million so we would have around 8 millions going to them in a trade so we could do it but then would need a new 3C too.