I heard in the off-season (after they lost Briere and Drury) that it's part of the team's policy not to discuss Player contracts/offers during the Regular Season. Only before the Regular Season, between the end of the regular season and start of the playoffs, and after the playoffs.
If that's the case, then things need to change there if they don't want to lose half the players on their team, many of them pretty good ones.
I remember last year they weren't very short on their list of UFA's and FA's either, and, the season before that they had around 17 of them to sign. There's a discussion on it somewhere around here....
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