With free agency set to open at noon today, let’s take a moment to catch up on the solid rumours of signings and news of trades from yesterday.
The Montréal Canadiens made a smart trade, leveraging their cap space to get two picks and a useful player in Joel Armia:
#nhljets unload Steve Mason, Joel Armia, a 4th round pick and a 7th round pick to #Habs in exchange for defenceman Simon Bourque. It’s a pure salary dump, opening space to re-sign Paul Stastny.
— Frank Seravalli (@frank_seravalli) June 30, 2018
The Canadiens then turned around and bought out Steve Mason:
As noted, we can all assume Paul Stastny is off the market.