It’s the Capitals’ turn to be linked to Jake Evans and Joel Armia

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Obviously, in the coming days, the names of Jake Evans and Joel Armia will be circulating en masse. They are the two players from the Canadiens who are most likely to be traded.

Will it happen? Who knows.

Evans can help himself by signing a contract with the CH, but Joel Armia, from what we understand, is really at the mercy of other teams’ offers… and possibly some clubs’ desire to go get him with Evans.

In the case of Evans, we know that several teams will be on the case. Recently, we were talking about these teams: the Jets, the Maple Leafs, the Oilers, the Devils, and the Wild.

Will there be others? Surely, yes.

And now, this morning, in a text on The Athletic website, Pierre LeBrun and Chris Johnston made the rounds of the current rumors, and we found Evans’ and Armia’s names in the section of a few teams.

Here is the text in question, for those interested.

When we look at it, Jake Evans’ name appears in the section of three teams: the Maple Leafs, the Capitals, and the Jets. It’s the same for Armia, but without the Maple Leafs.

This is the first time we’ve seen the Capitals publicly linked to a Canadiens player.

The Capitals, who have a good power play disadvantage, are looking to get help on the bottom-6. It’s not exactly surprising since many aspiring teams have such a goal, in fact.

The teams mentioned are not guaranteed to try everything to get Evans or Armia out of Montreal, and it’s certainly not an exclusive list. But let’s keep a close eye on all of this.

In rafale

– To follow.

– News from CF Montréal.

– Panthers: Seth Jones on the second pair.

– Kings: their first pick in play?

– To note.