Eight files to complete in the NHL

Marco Rossi

It’s been months since this dossier trampled. Rossi, 23, is also an autonomous player with restrictions, without right to arbitration. This first round choice in 2020 (9^e In total) has overcome health issues before arriving in the NHL, but since then, he has only progressed, as evidenced by his 60 -point, including 24 goals. As the Wild of Minnesota is not very well undertaken in the center position and that the Austrian is a product developed by the organization, one would have thought that a contractual extension would have been a formality. Nothing is less true. All last winter, the negotiations between the two parties were documented. He would have refused offers of two and five seasons and he would have been part of multiple exchange scenarios. Despite all its athletic and offensive qualities, Rossi remains, 5 ft 9 in 9 in, one of the very rare players from the League with such a small size. As Mathias Brunet had recalled, in The presslast June, his halftone performance in the playoffs did not help unroll the unfavorable prejudices towards the small attackers. The Athletic still wrote a few days ago that the Wild hesitated to get involved with him in the long term. It doesn’t feel good.

Luke Hughes

At the beginning of June, Tom Fitzgerald, Director General of the Devils of New Jersey, said that he was getting along with Luke Hughes was a “priority” for him. Two months later, it is still not settled. As Hughes asserted himself as the main defender of the club in the past year, we could argue that the more time will pass, the more this dead end will constitute a problem. Like Mason MCTAVISH and MARCO ROSSI, he is an autonomous player with restrictions, without right to arbitration. He was the best pointer among the Devils defenders last season and was the comeign in the ice time with Brett Pesce. We could logically have expected that he signs an agreement of seven or eight years at the exit of his entry contract, as did Owen Power in Buffalo. Notice that it can always happen. The problem is that Devils have a limited room for maneuver for the 2025-2026 campaign. In this context, he would fall under the sense that Hughes signs a shorter and more modest contract then that he makes the bank skip in a year or two. To follow, there too.

Connor McDavid

Here, there is theoretically no emergency, since McDavid is still under contract for the next season. But the best player in the known universe is eligible for a contract extension since 1^is July, and each additional day without confirming its long -term commitment with the Edmonton Oilers increases the attention which will be devoted to this soap from the opening of the training camp. After the defeat of his club in the Stanley Cup final last June, McDavid did not rule on his future in the Alberta capital. The management of the club, on the other hand, said that it would leave to its star attacker all the time and the space necessary to advance her reflection. But it is obvious that a regulation before the end of the summer would relieve the organization. What is certain is that the prospect of seeing the number 97 enjoying its full autonomy in the summer of 2026 would fuel conversations abundantly everywhere in the League in the coming months. And as, in addition, McDavid is from the suburbs of Toronto, we imagine that the assumptions from the Queen city would be perfectly reasonable and measured.

Necas, Kaprizov and the others

Connor McDavid is not the only renowned player likely to test the market for autonomous players in July 2026. Martin Necas, Kirill Kaprizov, Jack Eichel, Kyle Connor, Artemi Panarin, Sergei Bobrovksy and Adrian Kempe, among others, are in the same situation, and several of them represent thorn. If by chance the Avalanche du Colorado did not succeed in retaining the services of Necas, the management should live with the odious of having sacrificed Mikko Rantanen for nothing. In Minnesota, one wonders if Kaprizov is still seen in the long -term Wild uniform. And after having failed to keep Nikolaj Ehlers, the Winnipeg jets cannot afford to also lose Kyle Connor. In Washington, Alexander Ovechkin also begins the last year of his contract, except that we can assume that the next season, last scheduled for his contract, will be the last of the 40 -year -old Russian.

Bedard, Hutson, Cooley…

In an order of similar ideas, many young star players are starting these days in the last year of their NHL entrance contract; They too are therefore eligible for new agreements which would come into force in 2026. Connor Bedard, Lane Hutson, Logan Cooley, Adam Fantilli and Leo Carlsson will all become, next summer, autonomous players with restrictions. There either, there is no fire: they can give themselves the chance to experience a prolific season to swell their pay check, and in any case, their respective club will retain their negotiation rights. If we talk about it today, it is because the next few months will give these young men a last chance to engage with their team for a period of eight years. An amendment to the collective agreement uniting the league to players will indeed come into force in 2026-2027 and will limit contracts to the seven years if an athlete remains with his club of belonging. Any agreement concluded after the 1^is July 2026 will be built according to these new parameters.

Jack roslovic a matte grzelcyk

These two names do not dream of anyone, but they are however the two most notable still available on the market for autonomous players without compensation. The case of Grzelcyk is intriguing since the 31 -year -old defender has just made, in Pittsburgh, the best offensive harvest of his career (40 points). It was also used more than 20 minutes per game. Roslovic, he knew two seasons in one last year: 25 points to his first 37 games in the Hurricanes uniform of Carolina, then only 14 points during the following 44 games. He was later left out for the last three games of his club in playoffs. The 28 -year -old American is in a funny posture; His statistics resemble those of a second trio player, but his defensive deficiencies say the opposite. In the Balado show 32 Thoughtsreporter Ellipotte Friedman advanced a few days ago that five or six clubs were interested in Roslovic. If so, they don’t seem in a hurry. Otherwise, the latest drinking grenailles on the market are called Max Pacioretty, Robby Fabbri and Luke Kunin, otherwise Ilya Samsonov, James Reimer and Alexandar Georgiev in front of the net.

A French -speaking broadcaster

We have known since April that Rogers will remain the NHL national broadcaster in Canada until 2038, but we still do not know to whom the telecommunications giant will entrust the production of matches in French. The 2025-2026 season will be the last of the 12-year-old agreement between TVA Sports and Rogers. Does the Quebecor network have the kidneys strong enough to continue the adventure? No, said his big boss Pierre Karl Péladeau last May. Does this mean that the contract will systematically return to Bell Média? Nor more. The French sports channels of Bell, RDS and RDS Info, lost $ 27.8 million in 2024, and the 2026-2038 agreement between Rogers and the NHL, worth 11 billion, represents more than double the 2014-2026 pact. Who still has the means to broadcast matches in French at this price? It is not clear. Everyone expects that at least a web giant, like Amazon or Apple, is part of the solution.