The Vegas Golden Knights landed Mitch Marner on a huge deal, but according to Elliotte Friedman, they're working on an even bigger deal to extend Jack Eichel.
This off-season has been another huge one for the Vegas Golden Knights, and after falling short of their pursuit for a Stanley Cup, they once again landed a star in Mitch Marner via sign-and-trade with the Toronto Maple Leafs.
In that extension, Marner will earn $12 million per season over the next eight years, and while he's set the team up with a chance to go deep in 2025, it presents another issue ahead of next summer.
That issue is Jack Eichel's pending free agency, and after flourishing into the star we knew he could be with Vegas, it's clear that both player and team want to get an extension done before he officially hits free agency.
Now, according to NHL Insider Elliotte Friedman, the two parties have begun working on a potential extension to keep him in Vegas for the long-term, with Friedman giving an intriguing prediction.
In his report, Freidman assumes that Eichel's extension will pay him more than Marner, and while he doesn't specify exactly how much, the assumption is that Eichel would likely get $12.5-13 million a season.
This comes off a career year for the former Buffalo Sabre where he tallied 28 goals and a career high 94 points, and now with Marner alongside him, locking the two down long-term make this team formidable again.
It's unclear if an extension will get done this summer or whether they'll go into the team with this mega extension hanging over their heads, but for now, an Eichel extension is on the way, and according to the league's top source, it's going to be a rather expensive one.
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