0:00
Welcome to today's news and rumors rundown
0:04
We start in Edmonton with some fallout from the offer sheets given to Broberg and Holloway
0:08
According to Bob Stauffer, Voiler's now a while back upper management instructed then-GM
0:12
Ken Holland to get deals done with both players. He said that he was expected to address those contracts when they were at their most vulnerable
0:18
either dealing with injuries or high draft picks who hadn't yet met expectations and
0:22
had been demoted. Stauffer also reported that the Blues might have been willing to trade Paweł Buczynewicz
0:26
in a deal involving them last season, and that Armstrong likely wouldn't have gone
0:30
the route of an offer sheet if Holland was still the GM. As for how these offer sheets will affect other key RFAs in Seth Jarvis, Jeremy Swaman
0:37
Dawson Mercer, Maury Sider, and Lukas Raymond, Andrew Fenton's channel of Boston Hockey
0:41
Now doesn't believe one is coming Swaman's way, since the compensation would likely be
0:45
two first round picks, a second round pick, and a third round pick, given his projected
0:49
salary of close to $9 million. As with the other RFAs, it will likely grease the wheels to get things done quicker so that
0:54
they aren't put in the same situation as the Oilers. That's it for this edition of the News and Rumors Rundown
