NHL teams rush to sign players to eight-year contracts before the new CBA deadline

NHL teams rush to sign players to eight-year contracts before the new CBA deadline

NHL teams are rushing to re-sign players to eight-year contracts while they still can, before midnight when the new collective bargaining agreement kicks in and sets a new ceiling of seven years

Noodles shares if he's surprised by the spending spree ahead of eight-year deal deadline

Wednesday marks the deadline for players to sign eight-year deals, and a bunch were signed to contracts on Tuesday including Ryan Leonard and Senators’ forward Drake Batherson. TSN Hockey analyst Jamie McLennan joins SportsCentre to discuss what he likes about this move by the Senators, if he’s surprised by the spending spree, and what this means for players who let the deadline go by.

Making sense of the Artturi Lehkonen contract situation - DNVR Sports

As the NHL goes crazy with teams handing out eight-year contracts to beat the September 16 deadline when eight-year contracts are no longer allowed to be signed, the Colorado Avalanche have most of their business wrapped up and can sit back and watch the action. They locked Cale Makar into the richest contract in NHL […]