Filip Chytil Could be Rangers’ X-Factor for 2024-25 Season
The New York Rangers began the season with high expectations for Filip Chytil and he earned a spot as the team’s second-line center. However, a concussion kept him out of…
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Islanders Need to Target Jets’ Rutger McGroarty in a Trade
On the latest episode of 32 Thoughts, Elliotte Friedman discussed Winnipeg Jets’ prospect and University of Michigan star, Rutger McGroarty. Friedman states he has heard McGroarty’s name in trade talks due to his…
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Kings Extend Alex Turcotte to 3-Year Contract
The Los Angeles Kings announced they have extended Alex Turcotte to a three-year contract carrying an average annual value of $775,000. Turcotte, a center, was selected fifth overall by the…
Kings ink Turcotte to 3-year deal at league minimum
The Los Angeles Kings signed forward Alex Turcotte to a three-year contract with a league-minimum cap hit of $775,000, the team announced Saturday.
The Kings drafted Turcotte fifth overall in 2019. The 23-year-old played 20 NHL games last season, accruing four points. He tallied 29 points in 35 AHL contests.
His extension is two-way in 2024-25 and one-way for the last two years of the deal.
Turcotte played on a star-studded U.S. NTDP team in his draft year. L.A. selected him before teammates Trevor Zegras, Matt Boldy, and Cole Caufield, among others, but he's yet to become a full-time NHLer.
The Kings will have to place Turcotte on waivers if they want to send him down beginning next season.
Turcotte has one goal and four points in 32 career NHL games.
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Devils Can Get a Draft Steal by Taking Beckett Sennecke 10th Overall
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Report: Jets likely to trade top prospect McGroarty
The Winnipeg Jets are likely to trade top prospect Rutger McGroarty, sources told The Athletic's Murat Ates.
Winnipeg wanted to sign McGroarty following the 2023-24 NCAA campaign but was reportedly unwilling to promise a path to NHL playing time, so the 20-year-old opted to return to the University of Michigan for his junior year. The Jets would lose his rights if they don't sign him in the next two years.
The 20-year-old doesn't want out because of his views of the city of Winnipeg, Ates noted.
McGroarty's name has already come up in trade discussions, Sportsnet's Elliotte Friedman reported earlier Saturday, adding that the situation remains up in the air.
"Winnipeg really needs to re-visit its development plan," a source told Mike McIntyre and Ken Wiebe of the Winnipeg Free Press.
The Jets added veterans Sean Monahan and Tyler Toffoli up front for a deadline push, which notably forced 2020 No. 10 pick Cole Perfetti out of the lineup for all but one playoff game despite a 19-goal, 19-assist regular season. Winnipeg already has 12 forwards signed for next season, and that doesn't include restricted free agents Perfetti and David Gustafsson.
Winnipeg drafted McGroarty 14th overall in 2022. He recorded 52 points in 36 games for the Wolverines this past season.
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Expectations for Blues’ New Goaltending Scout & Development Coach Brian Elliott
On Monday (June 17), a former St. Louis Blues goaltender was hired as the team’s new goaltending scout and development coach, just a week after the Blues hired their former…