UPDATE: Sam Reinhart signs 2-year extension -- $3.65MM per year
The draft is done, free agency is mostly done and the big trades are likely done.
The next order of business is signing our RFAs, most importantly Sam Reinhart.
With O'Reilly gone, I think Sam's role will grow to fill parts of that gap.
Sam's back half convinced me that he is a core piece and the ROR trade leads me to think Botterill may think so too.
I would try to pay more now and benefit on the back half — tie him up on a long-term deal, so that we will only have Dahlin and Casey to
How much of Brayden have you watched? His defensive chops at the center position are Barkov-esque, and he's talented enough to drive the line that gets by far the hardest matchups on that team. He faced tougher opposition than literally any Sabre, forward or defensemen, on the usage chart, and his best linemate was Palat, who is worse than Sam's, Ryan O'Reilly, and Sam did his work from the wing. In this spot, Brayden scored 14 more points than Sam. If you gave Sam the toughest opponents of any