Pierre LeBrun of The Athletic: From understanding, the New York Islanders and the agent for Mathew Barzal, J.P. Barry, have already established that they’d like to have contract extension talks this fall. Barzal’s numbers so far have him between Auston Matthews and Mitch Marner. That could be a starting point for his camp, with the Islanders may be looking at Mikko Rantanen‘s new deal.
Believe that the Columbus Blue Jackets have let Pierre-Luc Dubois‘ camp know they’d like to have extension talks. The Blue Jackets could toss a big number to agent Pat Brisson to get talks going.