David Pagnotta

The issue that's related to him, and I don't know

I don't know how much I can really say, to be honest, because there is an ongoing NHL investigation.

And I don't know the full facts of everything, but I do know that there's an individual from a previous relationship that he was engaged in years ago that started to contact some of the teams that he was interviewing with.

And that caused, you know, obviously a bit of a stir.

The league started to investigate.

This goes back to the spring.

You know, the league started to investigate things, and that's been ongoing up until that point.

I think letters were sent to Pittsburgh and Seattle, two places that he was applying for.

And the Capitals were well aware of that situation as well.

So I think as the investigation has continued, the Capitals felt it was, you know, given the circumstances and the best interest of everyone to, you know, put him on leave until the investigation concludes and the league and everybody involved in that comes to some type of conclusion.

I don't think so.

I'm of the belief that Conor's going to re-sign in Edmonton, and it'll be a shorter-term deal.

I don't expect a full eight-year term.

I mean, I don't expect six or seven.

If you go six or seven, you might as well just go the full eight.

So I'm not expecting that.

I'm expecting two, three, four years as a bit of a feeling out to see how this team is going to do and how they're going to kind of reshape part of this roster in the coming years.

So I anticipate that being around that $17 million mark over a shorter-term deal, more term you get, more dollars are attributed.

You know, certainly.

So I don't think Kaprizov kind of screwed himself out of this big ticket.