Tom Gulitti of NHL.com: Artemi Panarin and Sergei Bobrovsky both remain without a contract extension and GM Jarmo Kekalainen wouldn’t commit that both players will be with the Columbus Blue Jackets when their season starts on October 4th.
“I can’t,” Kekalainen said. “In this business, there’s always talks between the general managers whether you’ve got pending free agents or not. We talk regularly. Sometimes there’s trades. So I’m not speculating on them. I’m just saying we talk all the time, so I wouldn’t say about any player whether they’re a pending free agent or not that they’ll be on our team in October because anything can happen between now and Oct.