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New York Notables: Silence means no customers
This is not the old NHL, and Lamoriello did not operate this way in New Jersey or Toronto, he can stay silent, bring back the same team & not say much or anything, but this franchise will lose 1/2 it's marginal attendance with the buzz of the first year/50th anniversary failures, and now it's just year three.
NHL is not going to hand them all those Sat night games again either. It's not a market like Pens, Blues where the seats will be filled win or lose. Silence is not golden, nor is hiding at Northwell.
Briefly I don't know what lingering effects the pandemic bring to the calander. Qualifying offers should be 6/15, the draft 6/28-29th with likely no first (Horvat) no third (Ladd) so 2-4-5-6-7. Finally UFA on 7/1 as it used to be. We know NYI UFA menu with Engvall/Mayfield/Varlamov, only Lamoriello knows is everyone relevant signed or not on a team that badly needs two scoring wingers with very limited cap space.
And the clock starts ticking on Sorokin, who's the only reason this is not a 14th-15th seed for the last two seasons, if he wants to stay which only he knows it's going to take record money.