01 May 2017 23:08:05
-SKA Sait Petersburg who just won the KHL championship aquired Yakupovs rights. He is set to be a RFA with STL at seasons end but the KHL team will make a big push for Yak.

-Kovalchuck apperently wants to remain in the New York area (Not stay with Jersey) or play in Florida (apperently only the Panthers) so a sign and trade to the Rangers, Islander or Panthers that means. This source said that that's where him and his family want to be. Pierre Lebrun said Kovie wants to come back and his agent was speaking with the Devils about and a
Russian reporter Slava Malamud added the second part about wanting to be with those three teams.


1.) 02 May 2017
02 May 2017 04:39:23
SKA also acquired the rights for Kucherov as well. Kucherov still has 2 more seasons left on contract while Yak is a RFA. Interesting.


2.) 02 May 2017
02 May 2017 04:48:45
Crap. 2 of the guys I was hoping Habs would target. Kovalchuk and Yakupov.
Cant see the Devis wanting to give him up to Rangers or Islanders very easy. Would probably have to overpay ., and not sure those teams would want to for an aging player.
If he's already dictating where he wants to go. then it may be best to stay away from him, . I could see wanting to go to Rangers as they are a contender, Panthers are up and coming, but still aways off. as for Islanders, they aren't even close.


3.) 02 May 2017
02 May 2017 18:08:00
How is someone disagreeing with my second comment here. Those rights aqcuasitions ACTUALLY happened. Lol!


4.) 02 May 2017
02 May 2017 21:31:29
You could say Penguins won the cup last year and people will disagree.


5.) 03 May 2017
03 May 2017 09:55:56
no way Penguins win cup last year.