The Oilers are expected to have to sign Evan Bouchard to a short-term bridge contract to fit him within their cap structure. On the latest 32 Thoughts podcast (audio link), Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman suggests that the deal might fall within the $3.5MM to $4MM range. For comparison, Colorado’s Bowen Byram inked a two-year bridge deal with a $3.85MM AAV and Bouchard has more than twice as many games played as points as Byram. The 23-year-old is coming off his second straight regular season of at least 40 points and led all NHL blueliners in playoff scoring with 17 points in just 12 contests.
More from the Western Conference:
- The Stars haven’t given up on pursuing outside help defensively via the trade route, relays Saad Yousuf of The Athletic (subscription link). However, they are prepared to enter next season with what they have now with the hopes that Thomas Harley and Nils Lundkvist can take a step forward in their development to help bolster the depth of their unit. Dallas has been quiet with their back end this summer with their only NHL-related moves being the trade of Colin Miller to New Jersey, the signing of Gavin Bayreuther, and the re-signing of Joel Hanley.
- Coyotes prospect Logan Cooley told Jenna Ortiz of the Arizona Republic that he’s not putting a timeline on when he turns pro. The 19-year-old was the third-overall pick last year and had a standout first season at Minnesota, putting up 60 points in 39 games to finish second in NCAA scoring while also averaging two points per game at the World Juniors. As it is, some feel that Cooley doesn’t have much left to prove at that level so while he’s not willing to put a firm expectation in place for when he turns pro, it certainly feels like that should be happening when his college season comes to an end either next March or April.
I LOATHE the college senior UFA loophole, I’ve been pretty clear on that.
BUT…if it’s going to exist despite my objections, I hope Cooley stays in college for 4 years and then signs home in PGH as a UFA.
It’s not a “loophole”, Chumley. Merriam-Webster defines a loophole as an ambiguity or omission in the text through which the intent of a statute, contract, or obligation may be evaded.
The CBA is pretty clear about it:
ARTICLE 8 8.6-8.6
c) College Players.
2.(ii)
… his drafting Club shall retain exclusive rights for the negotiation of his services until the later of: (a) the fourth June 1 following his selection in the Entry Draft, or (b) thirty (30) days after NHL Central Registry receives notice that the Player is no longer a bona fide college student;
There are no ambiguities or omissions. This is no big secret, and it’s the same thing for Europeans. NHL GMs know when they draft college and European players that they can lose them in 4 years. They take that risk.
Whining about it won’t change this.
Entertaining your friends who are laughing just out of view with more pedantic minutia, I see.
Lucky them to have you in their totally non-fictional lives.
Cheers.
Facts suck, don’t they? Can’t argue anything factually, just have to fall back on lame insults. Must suck being an ineffectual keyboard commando. How sad. Just admit I’m right about this, pajama boy
Replying with anything but about how much your totally non-fictional friends enjoy your pedantic minutia is a LOGICAL FALLACY STAWMAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Conversations are NEVER allowed to move on beyond the original topic, don’t you know?
You spelled minutiae wrong, too. My my, somebody’s not the intellectual giant he thinks he is.
Why are you bringing up things from a couple of days ago? Are you obsessing over it? Guess I live rent free in your head.
Go take your meds and go to bed, pajama boy. Or are you gonna have another meltdown?
I love that you are so butt hurt from all of your previous curb stompings that you have to chase me around to pick every tiny fight you can, hoping against hope that this will be the time.
One day you’ll shoot up a school and I’ll feel bad for the kids, but until then, your tears are better laughing gas than any dentist has given me.
PS-
Dictionary
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mi·nu·ti·ae
noun
plural noun: minutia
Don’t sell yourself short, EVERYTHING you say is pedantic minutia. Not just random one offs.
You’re the one with the anger control problems, pajama boy. It just seeps through the internet, and oozes out in my phone. I just feel the anger, frustration, and ineffectual hate of the keyboard commando, and pajama boy.
Nice living in your head, but it’s awfully empty in here, and spacious
Merriam Webster:
minutia
noun
Plural: minutiae
You said “more pedantic minutia”
You spelled it in the singular form, but the modifier more makes it plural.
I caught you in a blatant mistake, and showed how you “LOATHE” (your word) a basic clause in the CBA, that is not a loophole. But pointing out your embarrassing mistake is “minutiae”. Man, please take your meds, fruitcake. You live in an alternate reality.
OK lesson of the day for me, do not use big words when talking to KRB unless they are in proper form, this guy is gonna tear you up….dictionary style ;) lmao
So…
Your big gotcha is not that minutia was spelled wrong as you mistakenly and incorrectly claimed initially, then, but rather that by using the singular I was underestimating your volume of pedantic drippery?
Fair.
I most certainly have.
PS- I hate that innocent school children will pay for it, but I love how obviously miserable every second of your existence is for you.
Cheers.
You made two mistakes. Own up to it. I’d be embarrassed to make such obvious mistakes, but I like facts, pajama boy.
Typical keyboard commando. Make a few friends, Kohberger, leave Mom’s basement sometime, see the sunshine for once. You’re obviously one of those weakling kids, who was bullied in school, and now acts the internet tough guy online.
It has to be one of the dumbest loopholes in sports. I just dont get it.
It’s not a loophole, and what’s not to get. The NHL and NHLPA negotiated it this way. It’s not a secret, and the CBA spells it out pretty clearly. A good proportion of drafted players now come from either College, or European leagues, so a fair amount of players are eligible to use this so-called “loophole”. NHL teams know they could possibly lose a player to this. They take that risk.
Ok, so loophole is technically the wrong word to use even though it is a potential work-around if you dont like the team that holds your draft rights. I understand it was negotiated into the CBA. None of that takes away from the fact that it is dumb.
Cooley will sign with ARI next spring.
You saying this tells me he is the next College player to skip his signing rights and enter free agency. Wonder what odds Vegas will give me on that?
If I was Cooley I would be staying right where I’m at at the U.
No need to rush him, he can still improve on his great season last year.
Who knows maybe by the time he is ready the yotes will have moved and he can play for a place that enjoys seeing him play as much as we currently do here in Minnesota.
Ski-U-Mah!!
Go Gophers!!