Montreal Canadiens news and notes
- Kirby Dach is one of the players who have elected for arbitration. [La Presse]
Around the league and elsewhere
- The 15 players who elected for salary arbitration, including Jason Robertson. [NHL.com]
- The Leo Carlsson offer sheet will force teams to make quicker determinations of their young players’ value and sign them to their second contract before another team can. [La Presse]
- Pavel Mintyukov, another of Anaheim’s offer-sheet candidates, was signed to a five-year contract carrying a $7.2-million AAV by the Ducks. [TSN]
- Those two contracts put some pressure on the Ducks to keep Carlsson, Mintyukov, and Cutter Gauthier all with the team as the salary cup suddenly becomes a concern. [Sportsnet]
- The Pittsburgh Penguins signed RFAs Egor Chinakhov, Arturs Silovs, Joel Blomqvist, and David Gustafsson. [TSN]
