{"id":6822,"date":"2025-06-23T02:07:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T02:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/6822\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T02:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T02:07:11","slug":"atlantic-notes-giroux-geekie-tkachuk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/6822\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlantic Notes: Giroux, Geekie, Tkachuk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this weekend, Sportsnet\u2019s Elliotte Friedman reported in his latest <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/nhl\/article\/32-thoughts-connor-mcdavid-contract-nhls-top-summer-storyline\/\" rel=\"noopener\">32 Thoughts column<\/a> that the Senators and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/giroucl01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-22_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Claude Giroux<\/a><\/strong> were battling over the bonus structure of his next deal.\u00a0 However, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/ottawa-senators\/clock-ticking-ottawa-senators-claude-giroux\" rel=\"noopener\">Postmedia\u2019s Bruce Garrioch adds<\/a> that at this point, the base salary is still being worked on as well, with the belief that Giroux\u2019s camp is looking for a salary around teammate <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/perroda01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-22_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">David Perron<\/a><\/strong>\u2019s $4MM; Ottawa is coming in below that.\u00a0 As long as the 37-year-old signs a one-year contract, Giroux is eligible for performance incentives, including games played, points, and team playoff success.\u00a0 While his days of being a top-line option are long gone, Giroux still projects as one of the better options available in free agency coming off a 50-point season.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in the Atlantic:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bruins forward <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/geekimo01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-22_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Morgan Geekie<\/a><\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2025\/06\/21\/sports\/bruins-morgan-geekie\/?s_campaign=sharetool_Twitter_view\" rel=\"noopener\">told Kevin Paul Dupont of the Boston Globe<\/a> that discussions on a new contract have been \u201cpretty preliminary\u201d so far. The 26-year-old was non-tendered the last time he was a pending restricted free agent, signing a two-year, $4MM deal with Boston that proved to be quite a bargain.\u00a0 Geekie had 39 points in 2023-24 and then followed that up with a 33-goal, 57-point effort this season.\u00a0 That could push his price tag past the $5MM mark on a multi-year deal this time around.\u00a0 He\u2019s arbitration-eligible but with hearings generally running from July 20 to August 4, it\u2019s possible that Boston\u2019s plan is to simply let him file for arbitration late next week and then start to have more substantive discussions on a new agreement at that time.<\/li>\n<li>After playing through a torn adductor muscle for the entire postseason, Panthers winger <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/t\/tkachma01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-22_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Matthew Tkachuk<\/a><\/strong> told reporters <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/sports\/nhl\/florida-panthers\/article309129230.html\" rel=\"noopener\">including Jordan McPherson of the Miami Herald<\/a> that he is 50-50 in terms of whether he\u2019ll need surgery or not. He will take the next few weeks to let the injury heal on its own and then see if he\u2019ll need to go under the knife.\u00a0 If surgery is needed, it could put Tkachuk\u2019s availability for the start of next season in question.\u00a0 Despite the injury, he still managed to produce a point per game in Florida\u2019s 23 playoff contests.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier this weekend, Sportsnet\u2019s Elliotte Friedman reported in his latest 32 Thoughts column that the Senators and Claude&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[3103,8205,1323,3261,8206,293,3105,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-6822","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-boston-bruins","9":"tag-claude-giroux","10":"tag-florida-panthers","11":"tag-matthew-tkachuk","12":"tag-morgan-geekie","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-ottawa-senators","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114730240990926756","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}