It’s no secret that Kent Hughes has been extremely busy lately. With the draft and free agency opening up, he and Jeff Gorton have their work cut out for them.
At least they don’t face the prospect of having to retain many of their players who became free agents.
Colin White, Tanner Pearson, Jesse Ylonen (RFA) and Chris Wideman will all become free agents tomorrow. But as we know, they should not be back in the metropolis. The only ones who will be kept (barring a surprise) are Arber Xhekaj (RFA) and Justin Barron (RFA).
And on the eve of his contract expiring, he changed agents.
He and his brother Florian will now be represented by Brian and Scott Bartlett of Bartlett Hockey.
In Florian’s case, he just signed his NHL entry-level contract and won’t need to worry about his contract until 2027.
But as for his big brother, the situation is a little more sensitive since tomorrow, he will no longer have a contract. We can therefore perhaps assume that the negotiations between his former agent and the Montreal management are not going well.
It was Viktor Saljanin who signed the contracts of the two brothers in the NHL. Now the agent who works for Innovative Hockey Consultants has no more customers. The brothers were his only two customers.
As for Brian and Scott Bartlett, they manage no less than 36 contracts with a combined value of around $516 million.
A lot of
– Legend.
– I hope Slaf isn’t too sad.
– The Leafs now turn to Tyler Bertuzzi.
