“I believe there is an agreement in place for Jake Muzzin to extend with the Toronto Maple Leafs.”
So says Darren Dreger on TSN’s Insider Trading. He’s not saying he thinks it might happen, he’s saying it’s done in all but the filing with the NHL stage.
The details are: Four years at just over $5.5 million in AAV. It’s front loaded and contains trade protection. Dreger does not mention this, but we should likely expect a lot of signing bonuses included in that “front loading”.
Because of the cap and tagging issues, don’t expect this deal to be announced until March 1 when tagging space increases.