The three main players of discussion are Travis Hamonic, Kyle Okposo and Frans Nielson. Hamonic requested a trade earlier in the season and Okposo and Nielson are both unrestricted free agents this summer. While one would expect there to be some murmurs of trying to sign the team’s second best forward and most effective possession player, the rumour mill has been quite for months.
In McKenzie’s article, he didn’t talk much about either player’s contract negotiations, other than adding that he and Garth Snow feel that it will be difficult if not impossible to re-sign Okposo.
To sum up what McKenzie describes as Snow’s goal for these situations and the season as a whole, it’s short-term success.