Quickie Friday morning blog \u2026<\/p>\n
Not making Finland\u2019s Olympic team is understandably painful for him, and word around the NHL is the Hurricanes recognize he needs a fresh start.<\/p>\n
According to several sources, Carolina is considering offers as you read this. The Hurricanes are contending for a Stanley Cup, so they want either something that can help them now or something they can use to help them now. Either path is necessary to get something done.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s been involved in some discussions already: with Los Angeles (for Phillip Danault<\/a>) and Vancouver (in the offered package for Quinn Hughes<\/a>).\u00a0<\/p>\n Keep in mind: 31-year-old Alexander Wennberg<\/a> just signed for three years and $18 million; soon-to-be 30-year-old Christian Dvorak<\/a> for five years and $25.75 million. It\u2019s hard enough to find centres, there\u2019s two off the free-agent market for higher AAVs than what Kotkaniemi, who will be 26 in July, is owed \u2014 four years remaining at $4.82 million AAV.\u00a0<\/p>\n I do believe there is legit interest, and we will see where things go.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Quickie Friday morning blog \u2026 Not making Finland\u2019s Olympic team is understandably painful for him, and word around…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-402314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}