Overview

• Multiple reports indicate Vegas and Jack Eichel are on the same page about an eight-year maximum term, though no deal has been finalized.
• Insiders project an average annual value in the $13–$14 million range, up from Eichel’s current $10 million cap hit in the final year of his contract.
• Eichel addressed the situation during the NHL media tour, calling his approach to the contract year “business as usual.”
• The center is coming off a career season with 28 goals and 66 assists for 94 points in 77 games and has averaged over a point per game since joining Vegas.
• Elsewhere in Pacific Division notes, Sharks winger Cameron Lund left a rookie tournament game after a head hit, and the Oilers held Roby Jarventie out of rookie camp as a precaution following last season’s knee injury.