Ken Warren of the Ottawa Sun: The Senators still need to sign RFAs Brady Tkachuk and Drake Batherson. Andrei Svechnikov‘s eight-year, $62 million would be the low side for Tkachuk. Joel Farabee‘s new six-year, $30 million could be a Batherson comparable.
Bruce Garrioch of the Ottawa Sun: It doesn’t sound like Drake Batherson is concrened that they don’t have a contract in place yet.
Batherson is skating in Montreal at the BioSteel camp said to TSN’s Mark Masters.
“That’s the main goal here (to get a contract in place).