There isn’t news, exactly, but there are topics:
Summer topics like Cap Court taking on five contracts, including Elias Pettersson’s, Jakob Chychrun’s and Mathew Barzal’s after an injury-torched season:
He was injured for almost all of last year, so we can probably ditch those disappointing numbers. The year before that, he had 80 points, his best total since his rookie season. There’s a reason new Isles management made it clear Barzal wasn’t going anywhere. And while you don’t want to overplay the “cap is going up” card, we already covered how the center market is about to shift in the Pettersson section.