Your savory breakfast links:
- Elliotte Friedman’s special deadline episode of 32 Thoughts podcast is out, and he spoke at length about the Caps’ situation. You can listen to the full episode here (and there are plenty of people transcribing this roughly twoacross multiple blog posts, if that’s your thing)…but here’s the SparkNotes/CliffsNotes version:
- Brian MacLellan has made it clear to all pending UFAs that if he can’t sign them, he’ll try to trade them, and has made this known to fellow GMs as well
- Dmitry Orlov was moved because a deal wasn’t able to be made based on Orlov’s desired extension (believed to be around 7 years, Caps wanted 3-4)
- Both Nick Jensen (Toronto, Ottawa) and Lars Eller (Dallas, New Jersey) are drawing significant interest, although the team is still trying to sign both
- There is interest in Jakob Chychrun, but they have to decide whether it’s worth the price, i.