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Now that we're officially into the offseason, some news is starting to shake loose.Nothing significant has yet happened to the New York Islanders roster, but it's still early in the buyout window-GM and President Lou Lamoriello has until after the draft to make the call about buying out Josh Bailey, so he might as well hold off and see if he can just unload the contract entirely.

The Washington Capitals are coming off their worst full, 82-game season in 16 years, finishing 25th overall in the league standings.That sort of abject failure - on top of a rookie head coach and a year older core - has heavily impacted the team's betting odds for next season.The Caps are tied for the eighth-worst odds to win the Stanley Cup in 2023-24.

After the Toronto Maple Leafs were eliminated from the 2017 playoffs, what awaited them as well as other teams who were either eliminated from the playoffs or didn't qualify at all was the 2017 draft.Headlined by the Hischier/Patrick battle of which one of them would go first overall, it was deemed to be a pretty weak draft class by some.

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It rained plastic and plush rats inside FLA Live arena Thursday, a quirky nod to the Florida Panthers' past and a joyful celebration of their present position of being very much in the Stanley Cup Final after their 3-2 overtime victory over the Vegas Golden Knights.

Two games into this year's Stanley Cup Final and we've seen a little bit of everything from the Florida Panthers and Vegas Golden Knights.Newly minted "Face of the NHL" Matthew Tkachuk keeps taking 10-minute misconduct penalties.Goaltender Adin Hill made the most spectacular save of his career in perhaps the most important game of his career (you've probably seen it a million times, but watch it again).

The Philadelphia Flyers, under general manager Danny Briere, have commenced a rebuild.Briere kicked that off last Tuesday when he sent defenseman Ivan Provorov to the Columbus Blue Jackets and received multiple draft picks and other futures in return.That rebuild is certainly not done after just one trade and rumors are swirling about multiple of the Flyers' top-six forwards being on the move this summer.

Former Capital Andre Burakovsky is going to be a dad.On Sunday, Burakovsky and his girlfriend Johanna Scortea announced that she was pregnant with the couple's first child, a girl."Baby, mom and dad loves you already so much!! ???????? #genderreveal #week18," Scortea said on her Instagram.The couple made the announcement at their gender-reveal party in Sweden.

The Toronto Maple Leafs have been correct to ignore the media's attempts to run William Nylander out of town.However, the stars have aligned and it's time to trade him, and there is a team so obviously in need of what he brings, who just so happen to have such an obvious over abundance of what the Toronto Maple Leafs need, that the trade rumour creates itself.

The Toronto Maple Leafs were a big talking point on the Monday, May 15th edition of the 32 Thoughts podcast with Elliotte Friedman and Jeff Marek.During the podcast, they discussed the future of the Toronto Maple Leafs core four of Auston Matthews, Mitch Marner, John Tavares, and William Nylander.Of these four players, the situation with Matthews is the top priority.