Thursday's FTB: New CBA rumours

Board of Governors update:
- Extensive CBA update provided, but no vote taken
- Approved sale of #preds franchise to Bill Haslam, now roughly 65% control
- Will poll clubs this summer on whether to continue with decentralized Draft
- Hockey Ops update: no rule changes pending.
— Frank Seravalli (@frank_seravalli) June 25, 2025

Lots of detail here, but take note: this is all context-free leaked information on a document that hasn't been voted on yet by anyone.

Details lacking. No real idea if this will be the final version.

I've reported on this before, but the idea in going to 84 regular season games starting in '26-27 would be in conjunction with reducing the pre-season as part it, perhaps going down to 4 pre-season games https://t.co/rcS5pv6s4o
— Pierre LeBrun (@PierreVLeBrun) June 25, 2025

Oh, them again. I can't wait:

Per Seravalli, #NYR might give Gavrikov a 7 year, $8m contract. They never learn. Dumb contract for what I assume is a fine player, but it’s the Trouba mess 2.0.
— David Shapiro (@blueseatblogs.com) 2025-06-25T12:21:23.622Z

It's also "could" headline season:

And "possibly":

Holland admits he’s open to trading, possibly packaging, the 24th overall pick for a top-9 forward. https://t.co/v7wuWn5O3G
— David Pagnotta (@TheFourthPeriod) June 25, 2025

The NHL really loves leaving teams hanging on this stuff:

Deputy commissioner Bill Daly said #NHL is still deciding whether to ask #Oilers for more information on usage of Evander Kane LTIR relief:

"I've held that as pending," Daly said. "I haven't made any decisions yet with respect to how long I'm going to hold it pending."
— Frank Seravalli (@frank_seravalli) June 25, 2025

I laughed:

fun fact: @wyshynski wrote an excellent piece about connor mcdavid which - among other things - confirms mcdavid is a native of ontario!

check it out:https://t.co/triekf2FB0 https://t.co/DJK25KskHD
— Kristen Shilton (@kristen_shilton) June 25, 2025

Bet you twenty imaginary dollars Pietro is on offseason LTIR by July 1:

After signing Smith for $2M, #VegasBorn have $7.6M Projected Cap Space with 18 active players (10F/6D/2G)

IR: Pietrangelo $8.8M
RFA: Hague, Rondbjerg, Schwindt, Holtz
UFA: Saad, Olofsson, Pearson, Samsonovhttps://t.co/fw3JpQaf96
— PuckPedia (@PuckPedia) June 25, 2025

That's it for now. We will have a draft round one watch post tomorrow night.

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