Again, we come back to January, where I'll be renewing contracts for players in the last year of their contract. On January 2, we sign:
24yo LW Sonny Milano (2.0/2.5), 2 years, $1.05M per year.
24yo LW Ara Nazarian (2.0/2.5), 2 years, $825k per year.
25yo G Eric Comrie (2.0/2.5), 2 years, $955k per year.
25yo C Tyler Sheehy (2.0/2.5), 2 years, $815k per year.
26yo LW Nicolas Kerdiles (1.5/2.0), 2 years, $765k per year.
26yo LW Stefan Matteau (2.0/2.0), 2 years, $940k per year.
We still want to sign 4 players on the Americans... Not sure I'll be able to considering what they are asking. So I'll have to make decisions and maybe shop a player or two around. Especially considering we are in last place in our division right now.
On the 3rd, we sign 23yo RD John Marino (2.0/3.0) for 2 years at $2.16M per year.
I put C Nick Bjugstad on the trade block. He's basically a 3rd line center for us, and he wants over $5M a year. I can't give him that much to play on the 3rd line. I also have Palmieri and Dzingel to sign. Two RW at 29 and 28 years old respectively to sign. Palmieri is our 1st line RW and Dzingel 2nd line. I'm going to sign them with the idea that I will probably try to trade one of them at the trade deadline.
On the 5th, we sign 29 year old RW Kyle Palmieri to a 3 year, $5.05M per year contract.
On the 10th, we sign 28 year old RW Ryan Dzingel to a 5 year, $4.7M per year contract. That ends our resignings.
Still, we really need top end talent at Goalie and forward to allow us to be a playoff team.
LW Alex Galchenyuk has a 6 week strained posterior cruiciate ligament. We move up Ara Nazarian.
We end the month at 22-29-3 (5-6-0 in January 2021). We were in last near the end of 2020, but a few wins got us out of the cellar.
