The Coyotes have elected to take Toronto’s 2025 second-round pick instead of their 2023 third-round selection to complete last year’s Nick Ritchie trade, reports NorthStar Bets’ Chris Johnston (Twitter link). Arizona had until yesterday to make the decision. This means that Toronto now has three draft picks remaining this season with the other two being later-round selections (fifth round and sixth round). Meanwhile, the Coyotes now have four second-round selections for the 2025 draft.
Elsewhere around the hockey world:
- The Wild announced (Twitter link) that they’ve re-assigned forward Adam Beckman to AHL Iowa. The 21-year-old has been held off the scoresheet in nine games with Minnesota this season but has 18 goals and nine assists in 43 games in the minors. They now have one spot open on their 23-man roster.
- We’re at the time of the year when players on expiring contracts being absent is worth keeping track of. However, while the Capitals were without Marcus Johansson for their game this afternoon against the Rangers, NHL.com’s Tom Gulitti relays (Twitter link) that the winger has a non-COVID illness. Johansson is on an expiring deal that carries a $1.1MM cap hit and has 28 points in 60 games this season which could draw some interest around the league.
- On the heels of Bally Sports skipping an interest payment earlier this month which is causing some concern for the NHL and the dozen teams with regional rights under that umbrella, another regional broadcaster is pulling the plug. John Ourand of the Sports Business Journal relays that Warner Bros. Discovery, which operates AT&T SportsNet and has a stake in Root Sports, is intending to divest its interests in regional sports rights by the end of March. Joe Flint of the Wall Street Journal adds that they’re proposing to the impacted teams (Vegas, Seattle, and Pittsburgh are the NHL ones) that they take back the rights at no fees as long as they sign a release stating there are no future financial claims against the network. With nearly half the league having their regional rights in question, it’s quite possible this could materially affect the salary cap moving forward.
What nobody will tell you is once professional sports decided to go woke, their attendance and TV audience fell off the table. It’s no confidence that when you go woke, you go broke!! And, like they say in Russia, “toughshitski.”
Back in the real world, the NFL has record revenue, record audience, record everything.
All of the “they kneeled, I’ll never watch again!!!!!!!!!!” blowhards and then some all went back. All of them.
So more like what nobody who knows anything about anything will tell you that because it’s untrue and dumb.
Quite the opposite, as most of the RSN troubles are due to dimwitted mismanagement by two decidedly not woke companies.
So, you got everything wrong, except for your love for America’s foe, Russia. I have no doubt that is real and true.
Lmao. These are two corporations living about their means. Sooner or later increasing rights for sports was going to end. Reality is heads of these companies as they always do made hundreds of millions .Who cares about the people working at these companies or viewers . God Bless America capitalism. lol
Yeah, time to hit the mute button on the troll.