Well, gang, we’re past the midpoint of the month of July, and Ivan Provorov still doesn’t have a contract. This probably isn’t what we were expecting--the initial hope by both player and team was that they would have a contract done by May, and then Provorov would go to join the Russian team to play in the World Championships. And then the deadline to report passed. And then the end of the playoffs. And the start of free agency. The summer’s rolled on, and we seem to be at a standstill. And now, the plot thickens:
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