{"id":50088,"date":"2025-08-06T18:17:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T18:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/50088\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T18:17:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T18:17:12","slug":"latest-on-mason-mctavish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/50088\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest On Mason McTavish"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ducks haven\u2019t been actively shopping the signing rights to restricted free agent\u00a0Mason McTavish<\/a>, but that hasn\u2019t stopped teams from expressing trade interest, as the center remains without a contract. Fervent interest will presumably be helped along by his essentially dominating the market for young centers. Wild RFA Marco Rossi<\/a>\u2019s talks have all but dried up<\/a> with little to no interest league-wide in the long-term contract he desires. The Canadiens, Hurricanes, and Red Wings have all shown serious interest \u2013 the last club chief among them, James Murphy of RG writes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Without much talk of an offer sheet, a notion sources told Murphy to dispel with Anaheim having ample space to match, McTavish has little control over his destiny. Speculation has indicated he\u2019s concerned about his long-term role with the Ducks after their offseason shopping spree added needed depth to their forward group, but there\u2019s little to no appetite from the Ducks\u2019 end to facilitate a trade unless he outright refuses to sign a contract.<\/p>\n

All the teams interested have a clear need for a second-line center. Unlike in SoCal, where there\u2019s still a small chance for him to compete with\u00a0Leo Carlsson<\/a>\u00a0for long-term 1C duties, there wouldn\u2019t be that upward mobility there for him with\u00a0Nick Suzuki<\/a>\u00a0in Montreal and\u00a0Sebastian Aho<\/a>\u00a0in Carolina not vacating their posts anytime soon. The Wings have the weakest top pivot out of the group in\u00a0Dylan Larkin<\/a>, but he still wouldn\u2019t be walking into Day 1 first-line duties there if that\u2019s his goal.<\/p>\n

While McTavish may have the standard profile of a high-motor but not hugely offensively untapped 2C, his performance last season shows there could be more to behold. The 22-year-old posted a team-leading 22 goals in 76 games, and his 52 points finished three back of\u00a0Troy Terry<\/a>\u00a0for the team lead. That\u2019s highly impressive production in an offensively stifled system under outgoing head coach Greg Cronin, and with his 12.2% shooting rate remaining projectable, there\u2019s significant 65-to-75-point breakout potential for him this season as the team presumably adopts a more aggressive style under\u00a0Joel Quenneville<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If Anaheim begins entertaining offers for the 6\u20191\u2033 pivot\u2019s signing rights, though, they\u2019ll be looking for a blue-chip right-shot defense prospect as the principal point of the return, Murphy reports. That means names like 2023 first-rounders Axel Sandin-Pellikka<\/a> would need to be in play in Detroit\u2019s case, or that year\u2019s No. 5 pick\u00a0David Reinbacher<\/a>\u00a0in Montreal\u2019s. Draft-capital-wise, it\u2019s logical from the Ducks\u2019 perspective after using the No. 3 overall pick on McTavish in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ducks haven\u2019t been actively shopping the signing rights to restricted free agent\u00a0Mason McTavish, but that hasn\u2019t stopped…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[766,49,48,748,742,9111,743,448,82],"class_list":["post-50088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-anaheim-ducks","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-carolina-hurricanes","tag-detroit-red-wings","tag-mason-mctavish","tag-montreal-canadiens","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}