Sunday Slow Day

Slow days as usual, today bringing us a few words on Meszaros' contract status.

The Ottawa Sun's Garrioch brings what little words can be said at the moment on the status of Andrej Meszaros as a member of the Ottawa Senators. Still no word on how close the two sides are to completing a deal, with Murray supposedly offering a long-term deal with a $3.5 million hit, while Meszaros' camp hoping for a number closer to $4.5 million, which Garrioch compares to Nashville's Shea Weber's deal for 3 years.

That being said, Weber's never played a full season, playing 28, 79, and 54 games in his first three seasons, respectively. His P/G have gone from .357 to .506 to .370 over those seasons. On that basis alone, and that Meszaros has played three full seasons with P/G going from .476 to .427 to .439, it becomes clear that Mez has reason to be wanting more money. Weber's contract could be a result of Nashville having the money to give, having all their players signed with $14 million left in cap space, but who knows. This one feels as though it will go down to the wire, but I can't see Mez sitting out the season, to say nothing of where he might end up playing.