Renaud Lavoie: Forward Dale Weise won’t be back with the Montreal Canadiens and will become an unrestricted free agent.
A sign-and-trade helpful for an acquiring team
TSN: Pierre LeBrun says a sign-and-trade is a complicated thing to pull off. It can be helpful for a team that has cap issues that would like to acquire Alex Pietrangelo.
“I mean, he’s a UFA on October 9, why would you trade for him? Well, you trade for him if you’re a cap-challenged team that thinks that getting the eighth year in that contract will make that much of a difference on the AAV.