Pierre LeBrun of The Athletic: The Nashville Predators and Pekka Rinne‘s agent Jay Grossman have had some contract discussions over the past week and they are expected to continue. Predators GM David Poile would only say that he hopes Rinne will retire as a Predator.
There are many pending UFA goaltenders at the moment with the top group of Rinne, Sergei Bobrovsky, Semyon Varlamov, Mike Smith and Cam Talbot and a secondary group of Jimmy Howard, Brian Elliott, Michael Neuvirth, Anders Nilsson, Robin Lehner, Petr Mrazek and Keith Kinkaid.