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Hollywood said:
So punish the players for something a former coach did 🤔
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The franchise absolutely needs to be punished, and more severely than any team's been punished in recent history.

Also based on yesterday's developments, some players (we'll never know who) were certainly not blameless. But Stan Bowman and co. at the very least need to be banned from the NHL for life and the organization should be fined a ton of money.
 
Zach Hyman is expected to leave the Toronto Maple Leafs as an unrestricted free agent and sign with the Edmonton Oilers, reports The Athletic's James Mirtle.

Hyman's new deal is either seven or eight years in length and will pay him $5 million to $5.5 million per season, Mirtle adds.

The Maple Leafs and Oilers can still conduct a sign-and-trade, which would allow Edmonton to add an eighth year to his contract. Toronto granted Hyman permission to negotiate with other teams earlier this offseason in an effort to get back an asset for trading his rights.


The Florida Panthers drafted Hyman in 2010, but he's played all his NHL games with the Leafs dating back to 2015. He's been a staple in Toronto's top six in recent years and had a career-best 0.77 points per game in 2021.

The 29-year-old has spent the majority of his ice time in recent seasons alongside Auston Matthews or John Tavares and should remain an effective producer on the wing of Connor McDavid or Leon Draisaitl in Edmonton.
 
The Vancouver Canucks are acquiring defenseman Oliver Ekman-Larsson and forward Conor Garland from the Arizona Coyotes in exchange for forwards Loui Eriksson, Jay Beagle, and Antoine Roussel, as well as the ninth overall pick in Friday's draft, a second-round pick in 2022, and a seventh-rounder in 2023, reports TSN's Pierre LeBrun.

Arizona also retained 12% of Ekman-Larsson's contract, LeBrun adds.

Ekman-Larsson, 30, has six years remaining on his contract, which carries an average annual value of $8.25 million. The Coyotes captain managed three goals and 21 assists in 46 games last season. He has 388 points in 769 career contests.


Garland, 25, is an impending restricted free agent. He's coming off a career season, scoring 12 goals and adding 27 assists in 49 games.


The Canucks' trio of forwards have massively underwhelmed since signing lucrative deals. Eriksson is in the final season of a six-year, $36-million pact he signed in 2016. Roussel and Beagle each have one year remaining on their contracts with a $3-million cap hit.

Vancouver sheds some salary with the deal but still has to sign stars Elias Pettersson and Quinn Hughes to new contracts.
 
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