Duck Tales: The Training Camp Roster Reduced To 39 Edition

DUCK TALES

• The Ducks have reduced their training camp roster to 39 players. [Anaheim Ducks]
• Rickard Rakell is getting closer to a new contract with the Ducks. [The Hockey Writers]
• The Ducks' salary cap is complicating Hampus Lindholm's deal. [Today's Slapshot]
• Hampus Lindholm will remain in Sweden until his contract is signed. [NBC Sports]
• In non-Swedish Duck contract news, yesterday's exhibition against the Los Angeles Kings also served as a preview of the Ducks' future blue line. [OC Register]
• Jonathan Bernier likes the environment with the Ducks after surviving pressure-packed Toronto. [OC Register]

AROUND THE NHL

• Auston Matthews played more than 18 minutes and had two shots in Toronto's 3-2 exhibition overtime win against Montreal, displaying the elite package of skills which helped him become the first player picked No. 1 overall by the Leafs since 1985. [CBC]
• Read Puck Daddy's 2016-17 Ottawa Senators preview. [Puck Daddy]
• Watch Nikita Zaitsev score his first goal as a Leaf. [Pension Plan Puppets]
• The Boston Bruins have cut 22 players from their roster. [Stanley Cup of Chowder]
• Vladmir Sobotka can't get out of his KHL contract. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch]
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