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Mason McTavish’s name has hit the trade boards hard again this offseason, same as last summer. Only back then, he was an RFA in a contract dispute with the Anaheim Ducks. Now he’s a promising young center coming off a troubling year, but signed to a six-year, $7M AAV deal, with five seasons left to run. The return the Ducks can garner this time around should be substantial.<\/p>\n
Calgary FlamesMontreal CanadiensOttawa SenatorsSt. Louis BluesWinnipeg Jets<\/p>\n
There’s already been plenty of buzz with two of these teams being linked to interest in McTavish.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In Ottawa, insider Bruce Garrioch has been telling us for the past few weeks that\u00a0<\/p>\n
McTavish is a centre, but he could play the wing, or, as Garrioch suggests,\u00a0 “it could give head coach Travis Green the option of moving second-line pivot Dylan Cozens to the wing.”<\/p>\n
The Habs have also been linked to McTavish. They are desperately seeking out a second-line center this offseason, and Canadiens GM Kent Hughes\u00a0has reportedly contacted the Ducks to inquire about McTavish\u2019s availability.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In Winnipeg, the Jets are also looking for a strong second-line center, as they look to really bolster their top-six.\u00a0Jonathan Toews has retired, and although he didn’t produce much offensively in his one season in the ‘Peg, there’s another hole down the middle for the Jets to fill.<\/p>\n
If McTavish were to find his way to Calgary, as Gould notes, it would “give McTavish the opportunity to grow alongside a core group of players in his age range.”<\/p>\n
“McTavish would find himself thrust into high-leverage minutes…\u00a0<\/p>\n
“For both the player and the team, a deal could be the ideal catalyst to unlock the next level of production.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mason McTavish’s name has hit the trade boards hard again this offseason, same as last summer. Only back…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-368004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}