‘”I believe in when you have core pieces that you feel are going to be a very important part of your franchise, I like to be proactive,” general manager Kevyn Adams said Wednesday. “Both [Rasmus] and Owen are critical pieces of this franchise moving forward and certainly have let their agents know how we feel about them, and we’ll work at it. These things, they take time. There’s a process that you go through. But I couldn’t imagine those two not part of this long term.”‘