ROSEVILLE, Calif. – With the 12th annual Louie Vermeil Classic sprint car and midget race approaching at Calistoga Speedway, track officials have unveiled the eighth induction class of the Calistoga Speedway Hall of Fame.

The new inductees include Billy Albini, Marvin Faw, Ted Finkenbinder, Rich Govan, Wally Talbot and the Tiner family.

The eighth annual Calistoga Speedway Hall of Fame induction dinner and awards banquet takes place on Friday night, Aug. 30. The evening is dedicated to the introduction of the six newest members into the Calistoga Speedway Hall of Fame.

The list is led by Albini, a famed West Coast crew chief who passed away on March 12. Albini is the winningest crew chief in the history of the NARC/King of the West Sprint Car Series. Albini assisted driver Brent Kaeding on numerous wins at Calistoga Speedway.

It was recently announced that the NARC/KWS Series has added a new perpetual award to honor Albini. The Billy Albini Mechanic of the Year Award will feature a perpetual trophy and recognizes the mechanical ability and leadership skills needed to drive the success of one’s team, as well as their ability to assist others in the pit area.

Faw enjoyed many years of success in pursuing a racing career which spanned several years. It didn’t take long for him to show his driving talent in races sanctioned by the new Northern Auto Racing Club, and in 1962 he became the NARC Owner and Driver Champion.

The ’62 Championship was very special to 49-year-old Faw, as he worked with limited funds and built his own equipment.

Finkenbinder has seen success both as a driver and car owner throughout the last five decades, fielding a plethora of cars ranging from USAC Silver Crown, Sprints and Midgets to winged 410 and 360 sprint cars. Finkenbinder has also been a fixture at the Calistoga Speedway. His famed No. 3f is a recognizable car number known across California.

Finkenbinder has supported Calistoga for more than 40 years and at times has fielded two race cars in one night of racing.

Govan won a sprint car main event at Calistoga Speedway on June 14, 1975. He was behind the wheel of fellow Hall of Fame car owner Roger Henderson’s car. Govan was a fixture during the 1970’s racing scene with the Northern Auto Racing Club. In 1975, Govan finished third in NARC points behind Ron Horton and champion LeRoy VanConett.

Talbot has a long history with Calistoga Speedway. His career spanned four decades. In 1958 he competed in his first race at Calistoga. Talbot’s last race at the track took place in 1984. He is a three-time Northern Auto Racing Club series champion.

Talbot drove for both Louie Vermeil and Stan Vermeil at Calistoga Speedway.

The Tiner family has a long history of competing at Calistoga Speedway. Rod Tiner Sr. has six wins at Calistoga as a car owner. The veteran crew chief is widely viewed as one of the smartest to ever turn a wrench on a sprint car.

Brother Randy “Boo” Tiner has four career wins as a driver at the legendary half-mile. Boo Tiner was also one of the most popular sprint car drivers to turn laps in Northern California.

The Toronto Maple Leafs have extended the contracts of impending restricted free agents Kasperi Kapanen and Andreas Johnsson, shoring up a second and third line that helped the Maple Leafs net a triple-digit point total for consecutive seasons.

Kapanen signed a three-year, $9.6 million extension, while Johnsson inked a four-year, $13.6 million deal.

Toronto has re-signed two of its three restricted free agents ahead of the Monday deadline, with the exception of Mitch Marner.

Kapanen set a career high with 44 points last season (20 goals, 24 assists). Johnsson had 20 goals and 23 assists, including a goal and three assists in the Leafs' first-round exit against Boston.

Toronto earned salary-cap space last week by sending Patrick Marleau and his $6.25 million contract to the Carolina Hurricanes.

Ahead of the free-agency shopping frenzy beginning on July 1, we're surveying the landscape and outlining the unique situation in which every team finds itself. That includes the key pending unrestricted and restricted free agents and the team's current cap space, along with the moves I'd make if I were sitting in the GM's chair. We've already looked at the Atlantic and the Metropolitan, and this edition focuses on the seven teams in the Central.

Note: All contract information cited here is courtesy of Cap Friendly, and all underlying numbers are provided by one of Corsica, Natural Stat Trick or Evolving Wild.

Chicago Blackhawks

Key players hitting UFA: C Marcus Kruger, W Chris Kunitz, G Cam Ward

Key players hitting RFA: C/W Dylan Sikura, W Brendan Perlini

Cap space: $11.94 million

The moves I'd make as GM: The Blackhawks are in a weird spot, in that they have essentially two motives to juggle and they're doing their best to try to sync them up as neatly as possible. On one end, they still have the championship core of Jonathan Toews, Patrick Kane, Corey Crawford and Duncan Keith, with which they'd presumably like to make one more playoff run while at least the first two are still in their prime. But they've also now missed the postseason in back-to-back seasons, and need to realistically assess how plausible that goal is. It's the hockey equivalent of trying to have your cake and eat it too, but the worry is that if you're not careful you can wind up without either.

One thing GM Stan Bowman has done a sneaky good job of recently has been accumulating young forward talent without paying a real premium for it. Between Dylan Strome, Alex DeBrincat, Brendan Perlini, Dylan Sikura and Aleksi Saarela, there's actually some real talent on the depth chart up front to help complement the big-name stars at the top. But goal scoring wasn't an issue for the Blackhawks last season, when they had the eighth-ranked offense.

The issue is on the other end of the ice, where they were stunningly porous. Only the Senators gave up more goals than they did in 2018-19, which is less than ideal considering that's a team that traded away all of its good players and actively tried not to spend money or win. Part of the problem is that they had to start 35-year-old Cam Ward 33 times because of Crawford's extended health concerns, and that went about as well as you'd imagine (.897 save percentage, minus-7.8 goals saved above average).

It's lazy to chalk up all of their problems to that, however, because the play in front of the goaltending wasn't much better. It's tricky to figure out how much of that was on the personnel, which was subpar, and how much of it was on the system itself. The comedy of errors in the defensive zone was reminiscent of the Patrick Roy-coached Avalanche and the Doug Weight-coached Islanders, with there seemingly being no real plan for how they wanted to defend as a group. At the same time, Jeremy Colliton had the unenviable task of hurriedly coming in midseason, and taking over for a living legend in coach Joel Quenneville. It was a recipe for disaster, so it can't be surprising that disastrous results followed.

The two big offseason moves they've made already will go a long way toward respectability, because both Olli Maatta and Calvin de Haan are strong in-zone defenders. De Haan is the better overall player, and it was a tidy piece of business by Chicago to jump at the opportunity to steal him from a Hurricanes team that had too many defensemen and was looking to shed salary. Maatta has his share of flaws, but what he lacks in foot speed he makes up for in stick work and positioning once he's in his own zone. The combination of them in a vacuum isn't anything too special, but for this particular Blackhawks team it represents a significant upgrade at the position, especially considering the meager price they had to pay to acquire them.

It's not all sunshine and lollipops, however. I'd love to sit here and draw out a genius blueprint for how the Blackhawks can get out from under the Brent Seabrook contract and create more money to improve their team with. But because of the way it was structured, there are no real gains to be had from buying it out, and there's such an untenable mix of term and real dollars left to be paid out that no team is taking it on without a number of sweeteners being attached to it. Chicago made their own bed, and now they'll have to lay in it until a potential compliance buyout comes in the next collective bargaining agreement.

Colorado Avalanche

Key players hitting UFA: G Semyon Varlamov, C Derick Brassard, C/W Colin Wilson, D Patrik Nemeth

Key players hitting RFA: W Mikko Rantanen, D Nikita Zadorov, C/W J.T. Compher, C/W Alexander Kerfoot, C Vladislav Kamenev

Cap space: $38.90 million

The moves I'd make as GM: The rest of the league should be very, very concerned about what the Avalanche are building in Colorado. After a season in which they exceeded expectations by making it to within one game of the Western Conference finals, they look primed to take the next step and enter legitimate contender status in the very near future.

No team currently has more than the near $40 million of cap space the Avalanche have to operate with this summer. Even after factoring in the gigantic new deal Mikko Rantanen earned with his 87-point season, they'll have more than enough left over to throw some haymakers if they feel so inclined. They only added fuel to the fire after creating even more space when they flipped Carl Soderberg for Kevin Connauton this week, raising some eyebrows around the league as to what they could possibly have planned.

They're going to lose Varlamov in free agency, but his brand name value exceeds his actual worth to the Avalanche at this point. Philipp Grubauer took the crease for himself with a scorching hot run to end the season, stopping a preposterous 94.8% of the shots he faced in 18 games after the All-Star break, and 92.5% of the shots he faced in another 15 playoff games after that. Considering that they have Pavel Francouz -- who dominated the Czech league and KHL for years before coming over last season and posting a .918 save percentage in 49 AHL games -- signed for cheap as well, it looks like they could very well enjoy the ultimate luxury of an above-average netminding tandem for under $5 million combined next season.

The biggest need for the Avalanche looks like a center who can step in and provide them with a lethal one-two punch down the middle alongside Nathan MacKinnon. For as transcendent as MacKinnon, Gabriel Landeskog and Rantanen were as a group last season, if Colorado has aspirations of vaulting up a tier and being taken seriously as a title contender they'll need another scoring line to materialize. It's possible that Compher could develop to become that guy, and it's even more likely that recently drafted Alex Newhook becomes that guy for them once he's done polishing his game at the NCAA level. With some potential future options in place, it would make sense for the Avalanche to target a shorter-term addition to step in to help bridge the gap in the present, whether it be through the free-agent market or via trade.

Which brings us to Tyson Barrie, whose name has been circulating in trade talks of late. He'll be turning 29 next summer, and is surely due for a mega pay day after next season considering that he's a right-handed-shooting defenseman who has piled up big point totals in recent campaigns. It's understandable that the Avalanche wouldn't want to pick up the tab on that, when they have Cale Makar, Samuel Girard and Bowen Byram ready to step up and devour all of those delicious offensive minutes should Barrie depart. If someone wants to pay a premium for his services now, it's an enticing idea considering he could net a return that helps them more moving forward.

The Avalanche are positioned firmly in the driver's seat at the moment. They have a main roster that's not only incredibly fun to watch but ready to be competitive, a prospect group that's now brimming with elite young pieces after they crushed the 2019 draft, and enough wiggle room financially to go out and get any pieces they identify as necessary for helping put it all together. All of that promise doesn't actually guarantee anything, but they're only a couple of well-timed chess moves away from truly building something special, which makes the Avalanche a team to watch this summer.

Dallas Stars

Key players hitting UFA: W Mats Zuccarello, W Brett Ritchie, C/W Jason Spezza, W Ryan Hartman, D Ben Lovejoy

Key players hitting RFA: C Jason Dickinson, D Julius Honka

Cap space: $10.96 million

The moves I'd make as GM: Much like the Avalanche, the Stars were far too top-heavy offensively last season, and their top priority this summer should be addressing that. The issue was particularly exemplified by how big of a difference Mats Zuccarello made once he finally jumped into their lineup (following the trade and subsequent injury he sustained in his first game with the team). Dallas looked like a completely different team in the playoffs than the relatively one-dimensional one they iced for much of the regular season, with Zuccarello unlocking Roope Hintz's potential and providing the Stars with another offensive dynamic.

In a vacuum, it's understandable that they would balk at the idea of rewarding Zuccarrello with the four- or five-year term that he's looking for with his next deal, considering that he'll turn 32 before the season begins, but their current reality is that the team they've constructed is firmly situated in win-now mode. So if it's not Zuccarello, then they'll need to go out and find another playmaking winger who can help replicate the success he had driving a second scoring line.

From a timeline perspective, the Stars find themselves in a fascinating spot. Unlike most teams that are constantly trying to balance the present and the future, they're not committed financially to go for it with the current core over the next two to three seasons, based on how all of their most important contracts are structured.

For the next two seasons, they have Miro Heiskanen still on his entry-level deal and John Klingberg playing on one of the most team-friendly deals in the entire league. Who knows what the league will look like after the next CBA, but by the summer of 2022 not only will both of those players be significantly more expensive, there's also the fact that: Alex Radulov's deal will be up, Tyler Seguin will be on the wrong side of 30, Jamie Benn will be approaching his mid-30s and Ben Bishop will already be in his mid-30s. With such a well-defined time frame already drawn up to act aggressively, GM Jim Nill would be doing himself a disservice if he didn't throw caution to the wind and go for it right now with this group.

If there's one other area they could stand to improve, it's with secondary defensemen to fill out the depth chart. It's remarkable that the same team that realized the importance of -- and invested heavily in -- scintillating talents like Klingberg and Heiskanen can then turn around and believe that players like Ben Lovejoy and Roman Polak also deserve minutes at that same position. Obviously not every defenseman can be as offensively gifted and inclined as those first two, but it feels like there's a happy medium when it comes to finding the right complements to pair with them. This Stars team is at its best when it's in transition and attacking downhill with pace, and having more than just two players on the back end who can consistently get the puck up to their top forwards would go a long way. They simply threw away too many minutes last season without their best players on the ice, because all of their other options available were essentially black holes with the puck on their sticks.

Minnesota Wild

Key players hitting UFA: W Pontus Aberg, C/W Eric Fehr

Key players hitting RFA: W Kevin Fiala, C Joel Eriksson Ek, C/W Ryan Donato

Cap space: $19.25 million

The moves I'd make as GM: The Wild are in a league of their own when it comes to toughest teams on which to get a good handle. They've been all over the place of late, taking two steps forward before immediately proceeding to take three steps back. GM Paul Fenton certainly hasn't been shy about making trades during his brief time in Minnesota as he tries to put his personal stamp on this roster he inherited, having closely learned from the master of the big trade David Poile during his days with the Predators. The issue is that unlike Poile, he's been eating more losses than wins when doing so, making some decisions that can be generously described as puzzling along the way.

The latest example is their handling of Jason Zucker, which has been nothing short of bizarre. It's tough to say what's more inexplicable, the fact that they've been desperately trying to trade him for cents on the dollar or that they've been failing to do so and dragging this saga along further. Apparently the Nino Niederreiter debacle wasn't a good learning experience, because this looks like another player who is being completely devalued because of random factors that are out of his control.

Prior to this past season Zucker, was a 12.8% shooter, but dipped down to just 9.8% in 2018-19. If he'd converted the 214 shots he put on net at that same career average rate, he would've scored around 27 goals compared to the 21 he actually did. It's hard not to wonder how much different the narrative around his performance would be if that were the case, or if there'd even be any urge from Minnesota's perspective to dump him in a deal to begin with. He's currently signed to a perfectly reasonable annual figure ($5.5 million) over the course of his age-27 through age-31 seasons, which is presumably the remaining meat of his most productive offensive years.

Having a coherent plan and then sticking to it is arguably the most important skill you can have as a GM, and the biggest failing of Minnesota's latest moves is that they don't appear to have one. When they traded Charlie Coyle for Ryan Donato and Mikael Granlund for Kevin Fiala, the explanation was that they were looking to get younger and faster as a team. Now they're reportedly looking to trade one of their best skaters in Zucker for 31-year-old Michael Frolik or 32-year-old Phil Kessel, while also reportedly preparing to make a big offer in free agency to 31-year-old Wayne Simmonds, whose skating is certainly on the decline at this point of his career.

The biggest issue for the Wild moving forward is that it's looking more and more like they're stuck in mediocrity for the foreseeable future, which is undoubtedly the worst place you can find yourself in as a sports franchise. They have a lot of money tied up in a team that isn't very good, and it's unclear what they're ultimately trying to accomplish. Based on his recent track record, it's fair to wonder whether Fenton is the right person to be behind the wheel as they try to steer their way out of this position. Right now, it looks like they're just digging an even deeper hole for themselves with each move.

Nashville Predators

Key players hitting UFA: W Wayne Simmonds, C Brian Boyle

Key players hitting RFA: W Rocco Grimaldi, C/W Colton Sissons

Cap space: $13.19 million

The moves I'd make as GM: When the Predators went out and dumped P.K. Subban's contract at the draft, they may as well have showed their cards to the rest of the NHL. It's no secret now that they're planning to go hard after Matt Duchene in free agency, hoping to better spread their wealth of talent across the lineup by subtracting from a position of strength (their blue line) and adding to an area of weakness (their forward group).

In theory, the logic checks out. With Roman Josi, Mattias Ekholm and Ryan Ellis, they're uniquely equipped to cover for the loss of Subban without a sizeable drop-off, especially if Dante Fabbro is ready to step up and eat some quality minutes. You can only have those players out on the ice so much because there's a clash of skill sets, and a point of diminishing returns is reached. Something the Predators could certainly use more of is game-breaking talent up front, because right now it's basically Filip Forsberg, Viktor Arvidsson ... and then everyone else.

The issue is that they basically gave away a player that was a Norris Trophy finalist just a year ago for what amounted to a bunch of magic beans, and now they're going to immediately turn around and use that newfound financial breathing room to presumably overpay a player who is talented but hardly a sure thing to fix their current needs. Like with most unrestricted free agents, Duchene's term will wind up looking regrettable eventually, considering it's likely going to take him well into his 30s.

What the Predators need to address this summer above all else is their woefully inept power play. Which is why their pursuit of Duchene is questionable, because he's never been a particularly effective player there despite all the skill he possesses, traditionally doing most of his damage at five-on-five with his speed off the rush. Of the 427 players who have seen at least 200 minutes of power-play ice time over the past five seasons, his 3.33 power-play points per 60 minutes rank 276th, in the neighborhood of players like Carl Soderberg, Mikael Backlund and Nikolay Goldobin. This isn't to say that he couldn't help them produce there, it's just that he never really has after being in the league for a decade now.

Anything could help at this point, because last season that group mustered a league-low 4.55 goals per hour with the man advantage, which is among the worst efficiencies the NHL has seen in the analytics era (dating to 2007). In their first-round playoff matchup against the Stars, they went 0-for-15 in six games, which was a big reason why they were ultimately upset by the lower seed. Even the deadline acquisitions of Wayne Simmonds and Mikael Granlund, two historically top-notch power-play producers, couldn't help pull Nashville's power play out of the gutter.

It's presumably more of a systemic issue than a personnel one considering that the Predators do have more than enough talent not to be historically bad in that area. They've hired a new assistant coach in Dan Lambert to run that unit, and without Subban occupying the point they'll hopefully finally move away from the ultra-outdated three-forward and two-defenseman sets, and move toward the modernized four-forward formations. The bar they need to clear to improve heading into next season is remarkably low, but it could go a long way toward kick-starting their offense.

St. Louis Blues

Key players hitting UFA: W, Patrick Maroon, D Carl Gunnarsson

Key players hitting RFA: G Jordan Binnington, D Joel Edmundson, C Ivan Barbashev, C/W Oskar Sundqvist, W Sammy Blais, W Zach Sanford, C/W Robby Fabbri, G Ville Husso

Cap space: $17.22 million

The moves I'd make as GM: Unlike last summer, when Doug Armstrong was the busiest GM in the league on July 1, signing Tyler Bozak, David Perron and trading for Ryan O'Reilly in one single day, this offseason will revolve around taking care of business in St. Louis. You'll have to excuse the Blues for moving at a more leisurely pace this offseason; carrying the Stanley Cup around everywhere can take its physical toll.

St. Louis has a greater number of notable restricted free agents than any team we've previewed thus far, but it's not much of a concern because the majority of them are depth contributors who don't have the eye-popping counting numbers to warrant big dollar figures. Jordan Binnington is the obvious exception, and it'll be awfully interesting to see just how much the Blues are willing to commit to him after fewer than 60 total games combining both the regular season and playoffs. It's worth remembering that he's older than you'd think a player with his experience would be, as he's already turning 26 this summer.

The Blues admittedly don't have many overwhelmingly glaring needs or areas of weakness to tend to. The biggest thing they need to worry about is not getting complacent or overly sentimental following the success they just enjoyed, especially when it comes to handing out loyalty contracts. Where winning teams get themselves in trouble in the NHL is when they start paying players for what they've done as opposed to what they're projected to do.

Patrick Maroon is really the only name that profiles as a potential risk for that considering he's 31, doesn't have a body type that'll age particularly gracefully, is a hometown boy, and already took a discount to come play for the Blues. But seeing as he only scored 10 goals and had 28 points last season, it's hard to see that number inflating too catastrophically even if they do decide to reward him for everything.

They were the deserving champions for a reason. They're deep, they have good players at every position, and most of their team is firmly in its prime. It would be cool to see the Blues add another legitimately useful piece or two to add a different dynamic to the team, avoid a Stanley Cup hangover by mixing things up a bit, and go for it again next season.

Winnipeg Jets

Key players hitting UFA: D Tyler Myers, W Brandon Tanev, D Ben Chiarot, D Nathan Beaulieu

Key players hitting RFA: W Patrik Laine, W Kyle Connor, C/W Andrew Copp, D Neal Pionk

Cap space: $23.87 million

The moves I'd make as GM: The Jets serve as the latest cautionary reminder of how fast things can change in this league, and how quickly future outlooks can be flipped on their head. Just one year ago, they were coming off a promising dash to the Western Conference finals, and it was viewed as just the beginning for a team the entire hockey world was penciling in as a perennial contender for seasons to come.

Now they're reeling after what was a disappointingly premature ending to an underwhelming season, facing loads of uncertainty about what they'll even look like in the future as they start bleeding talent due to cap complications. It's hard to feel too sorry for them, because it's not like they can be surprised that this is happening. We knew this day was coming down the road, and they've handled it with the foresight of a college student that was procrastinating all semester before finally starting to cram the day of the final exam.

The Jacob Trouba situation was horribly mishandled, but that had been bubbling for a long time before the actual trade itself came through. They didn't get the most out of him early in his career, playing him with suboptimal defense partners, and then alienated him with a bridge deal once his entry-level contract was up. The end result was a tough one to swallow all the same, because they just turned a top-pairing right-handed-shooting defenseman who's entering the prime of his career into not a single thing that'll tangibly help them compete for a Stanley Cup next season. They're better off letting Tyler Myers walk in free agency considering the outlandish offers he's reportedly fielding, but the biggest concern is the next domino to fall after that.

The Jets are reportedly exploring the possibility of flipping Nikolaj Ehlers for a defenseman to make up for losing Trouba and Myers in the same offseason, which would amount to trying to cover up one hole by making another bigger one elsewhere. Selling low on Ehlers now after a down season would be a mistake, because he's an excellent talent and an incredibly useful asset. He's signed at a cost-controlled rate of $6 million per season for his age-23 through age-29 seasons. He draws a ton of penalties -- only Connor McDavid, Johnny Gaudreau, Aleksander Barkov and Jeff Skinner have a better five-on-five penalty differential than he does since entering the league -- he's a puck-carrying monster through the neutral zone, and he's the perfect player for today's modern game in so many ways.

As a thought exercise, it's fun to consider which combination you'd be able to squeeze more value out of if you're the Jets: Nikolaj Ehlers and the affordable contract he's already signed to plus whatever king's ransom you'd get for Kyle Connor after he just scored 34 goals, or Kyle Connor and the full-freight contract you'll pay for him while his market value is sky high, plus whatever you'd get for Nikolaj Ehlers with his stock lower than it's likely ever going to be again. Seems pretty obvious from this vantage point.

How they handle Patrik Laine's next contract will be fascinating. He took as much heat as anyone for his performance last season, but maintaining some perspective is important. In an admittedly poor season for the Finn, he still scored 30 goals. If the 12.2% he shot last season -- after being just south of 18% in his first two seasons -- wound up being the lowest figure he converted at over his peak years, it would be believable considering the nearly unmatched shot talent he possesses. It's the most silver of linings, but if it suppresses the amount of money he's able to fetch this summer it could potentially be a blessing in disguise for Winnipeg. Going the bridge route in an attempt to see how the rest of his game develops before fully committing to him financially possesses too much needless risk in this case, because he's incredibly unlikely to stop scoring an obscene amount of goals all of a sudden, which means that the dollar figures on the next deal will only keep escalating with each goal off his stick.

The Jets can still salvage this entire situation and get their team back on track, because they still possess a ton of talent and haven't made any truly irreparable mistakes yet. But every so often, we see a team that flames out in a particularly unseemly manner in the postseason and irrationally overreacts the following summer in the pursuit of washing that bitter taste out of their mouths. Winnipeg is as good a candidate as any to fill that role this summer, with the Trouba move and the following murmurings doing nothing to quell those lingering concerns.

Ahead of the free-agency shopping frenzy beginning on July 1, we're surveying the landscape and outlining the unique situation in which every team finds itself. That includes the key pending unrestricted and restricted free agents and the team's current cap space, along with the moves I'd make if I were sitting in the GM's chair. We've already looked at the Atlantic, the Metropolitan and the Central, and this edition focuses on the eight teams in the Pacific.

Note: All contract information cited here is courtesy of Cap Friendly, and all underlying numbers are provided by either Corsica, Natural Stat Trick or Evolving Wild.

Anaheim Ducks

Key players hitting UFA: None

Key players hitting RFA: None

Cap space: $10.95 million

The moves I'd make as GM: It's not quite as bleak after they bought Corey Perry out and announced that Ryan Kesler will be moved to long-term injured reserve, but the Ducks still have a massive imbalance between how much money they have tied up in aging veterans and how good they'll most likely be next season.

They're clearly an organization that's in the process of turning the roster over to the next generation, which will come with inevitable growing pains. The good news is that they seem to be embracing that reality, having hired Dallas Eakins and clearing a couple of lineup spots previously devoted to older players whose individual timelines didn't sync up with the team's. This can be one of the toughest steps in the rebuilding process for an organization: actually admitting to themselves that it's time to switch gears, rather than trying to hang on to past glory and make it work again with the same names.

With Eakins having spent time grooming a number of their prospects with the AHL club in San Diego, it's convenient that they don't necessarily have to start from scratch. Whether it be Troy Terry, Sam Steel, Max Jones and Isac Lundestrom up front, or Josh Mahura and Jacob Larsson on the blue line, there's at least some future promise to build off. The name to watch is Steel because of how things went for him last season, where he looked like a fish out of water after being forced into the Ducks' lineup to start the season because of injuries. After going down to the AHL and spending the bulk of the campaign with Eakins, he looked like an entirely differently player upon his return, closing the season out strong with a hat trick and points in six of his final seven games.

Pour one out for goaltender John Gibson, who continues to be wildly underappreciated if this year's awards voting was any indication. Despite leading the league in goals saved above average, he finished tied for 10th place in Vezina Trophy voting with Frederik Andersen and Jacob Markstrom after receiving just the one measly third-place vote. That continues a theme for Gibson, who's finished tied for seventh place once, and was not even on the ballot twice in his four full seasons in the league. That's unjustified (to put it gently), considering that he's lapped the competition in both goals saved and save percentage.

Only Ben Bishop has topped him in the latter category, but Bishop has played for significantly better defensive clubs in that time and faced a sizably easier workload as evidenced by the goals saved metric. The only other goalies who have been north of .920 in that stretch were Antti Raanta and Philipp Grubauer, and they each did so in less than half the number of appearances that Gibson made.

In terms of league-wide recognition and Vezina votes, that probably won't change anytime soon, because this Ducks team likely won't win nearly enough games to change voters' minds and remedy that injustice. For the Ducks to just keep their heads above water, he'll likely need to keep standing on his head like he did in the first couple of months of the 2018-19 season, and even that may not be enough. He's still only 26, but Anaheim needs to make some serious changes defensively if they hope to avoid completely burning him out prematurely. Having a qualified NHL coach behind the bench next season will be a massive step in the right direction.

Arizona Coyotes

Key players hitting UFA: W Richard Panik, C/W Mario Kempe, C/W Nick Cousins, W Josh Archibald, G Cal Pickard

Key players hitting RFA: W Lawson Crouse, G Adin Hill

Cap space: $2.87 million

The moves I'd make as GM:

The Coyotes technically have more functional cap room than listed because they can always move Marian Hossa's contract to long-term injured reserve, but this isn't the same franchise that's perpetually been on the receiving end of money jokes over the years. They've sunk a lot of real money -- and not just artificially inflated cap dollars that aren't actually being paid out -- into this current team, for which they deserve credit. Reputations like that take a while to shake, however, so we'll see when the rest of the hockey world comes around to that realization.

Last season was a bizarre one in Arizona, and it's kind of remarkable that they were hanging around in the playoff hunt for as long as they were, all things considered. They were absolutely decimated by injuries throughout the lineup, and it sapped them of whatever scoring punch they might have otherwise had. Their team leaders in goals and points were Brad Richardson, with 19, and Clayton Keller, with 47. To put that into perspective, the Lightning had six players with as many goals as Richardson and seven players with as many points as Keller.

The two people who deserve the credit for keeping them competitive are coach Rick Tocchet, who must have tried out a million different line combinations throughout the season, and goaltender Darcy Kuemper, who had the season we've all been hoping Antti Raanta would one day have.

I don't expect them to make a lot of noise in free agency, but if GM John Chayka has taught us anything, it's that he's constantly working on something that he believes will make his team better -- evidenced by adding veteran forward Carl Soderberg in a deal with the Avalanche this week. No one pulls the trigger on trades more often than he does, so I fully expect the Coyotes to be involved in some business one way or another in the coming weeks.

Calgary Flames

Key players hitting UFA: W Garnet Hathaway, D Oscar Fantenberg, G Mike Smith

Key players hitting RFA: W Matthew Tkachuk, C/W Sam Bennett, G David Rittich, C/W Andrew Mangiapane

Cap space: $12.96 million

The moves I'd make as GM: After the Flames take care of their restricted free agents, they need to turn their attention toward sorting out the goalie situation. The wheels really came off David Rittich's promising season down the stretch when he posted an .898 save percentage in 15 games following the All-Star break before ultimately losing the crease to Mike Smith for the playoffs. He's still only 27 and showed enough before that to warrant getting another look next season, but the Flames are a team positioned to make a serious playoff run so long as the goaltending is on point, so it is problematic to put all of their eggs in that basket.

I'd love to see them take a home run cut with someone like Petr Mrazek or even Semyon Varlamov, but both of those options are realistically out of their price range. A more realistic Plan B is a veteran like Curtis McElhinney or Cam Talbot, both of whom could split starts with Rittich and be managed throughout the campaign in order to preserve them for a potential postseason sprint.

The key for Calgary this summer is to avoid overreacting to the most recent five games they played (a quick ouster from the playoffs), because as ugly as they may have been, the 82 that came before them were pretty special. Only the Tampa Bay Lightning had a more potent offense, and the Flames were a top-five shot share team all season that jumped all the way up to first in the final 25 games. There's a reason why they were the top seed in the West, and considering the talent, they should once again be a handful for opponents.

The good news is that they don't seem like the type of team to panic and completely shift their identity toward size and toughness following a postseason defeat. Especially after the manner in which they lost, which was by having laps skated around them by a younger, faster buzzsaw Avalanche team that was playing its best hockey at the perfect time. If anything, what the Flames can take from that is they themselves should start trusting and playing some of their young guys even more as the league shifts towards that style of play.

With Rasmus Andersson, Jusso Valimaki and Oliver Kylington all knocking on the door, this could be a good time for them to explore selling high on T.J. Brodie while they still can. He's technically not a right-handed shooting defenseman, but he plays on that side, paired with Mark Giordano. His numbers from last season look good, but they were propped up by having gotten to play with the runaway Norris Trophy winner for north of 1,000 of his 1,400 5-on-5 minutes last season. He's an unrestricted free agent next summer who'll be turning 30, which is the type of player the Flames will presumably shy away from committing to long-term anyway. All of which makes this the perfect time to test the waters and see if they can fetch a legitimate scoring threat for him from a team that has far less defensive depth than they do.

Edmonton Oilers

Key players hitting UFA: W Alex Chiasson, W Tobias Rieder, W Ty Rattie, D Alex Petrovic, G Anthony Stolarz

Key players hitting RFA: W Jesse Puljujarvi, C/W Jujhar Khaira

Cap space: $8.33 million

The moves I'd make as GM: It's times like these when the hockey world really misses former Oilers GM Peter Chiarelli the most, because he'd surely do something ridiculous to break the ice and give us all a good laugh. Listening to new Oilers GM Ken Holland speak lately, it doesn't sound like the Oilers will be doing anything that crazy in the early stages of his watch, as he immerses himself in the organization and familiarizes himself with what he has.

The question is how patient the Oilers can really afford to be if it means wasting another prime Connor McDavid season with what's an embarrassingly thin supporting cast around him. Last season, McDavid either scored or directly set up 42.4% of the total goals Edmonton had, which tied Alex Ovechkin's 2007-08 season for the biggest individual offensive burden a single player has carried in the analytics era (since 2007). With McDavid on the ice at 5-on-5, the Oilers outscored opponents 77-75; with him on the bench, they were absolutely walloped by a 104-68 margin.

All analysis of the Oilers and what they need to do this summer begins and ends with not necessarily even finding McDavid help, as much as making sure that they're able to function as a professional hockey team in the increasingly rare moments when he needs to recharge his batteries.

The biggest unanswered question that remains is whether it makes sense to play McDavid and Leon Draisaitl together as much as they have done, despite the fact that they're mesmerizingly fun to watch when they share the ice. Draisaitl is a tremendous player in his own right, coming off a 50-goal, 105-point season. But paying anyone $8.5 million per season to ride shotgun with the best player in the world doesn't make a whole lot of sense, especially when McDavid has shown that he'll make anyone he plays with look like the absolute best version of themselves, as evidenced by the 22-goal season Alex Chiasson just had. At some point there's an opportunity cost, and for the Oilers, life would become significantly easier if they could count on Draisaitl to consistently carry his own scoring line, giving them a legitimate 1-2 punch down the middle.

There are three things the Oilers should be able to address on the fly this summer for a relatively small price. First, they'll need to add more real talent on the wing, of which there's plenty in this free-agent class. Brett Connolly has been linked to them, and he certainly checks out as an option. The addition of Joakim Nygard earlier in the offseason was a smart under-the-radar move, and he should help. He was second in the Swedish Hockey League in goals last season, but even if that type of scoring punch doesn't translate to this level, his speed should add a useful dynamic to the group. For most of the players who find themselves outside the top tier of free agents, getting to potentially play with McDavid and Draisaitl, score a ton of goals, and eventually get paid by someone else down the road because of it seems like an intriguing short-term option. Edmonton should be using that as their main selling point during the free-agent meeting process.

The second move requires finding a goalie who can help share the crease with Mikko Koskinen, who completely burned out down the stretch last season after being forced to start an obscene number of consecutive games. I'd prefer for them to be ambitious with the goalie they choose to do that, but it's hard to invest too much money in another goalie after Chiarelli's last act (giving Koskinen $4.5 million per season). Petr Mrazek would be intriguing, whereas Mike Smith would be significantly less so.

The third move is the toughest of the bunch, and it involves shedding Milan Lucic's contract. His $6 million cap hold right now is an absolute killer for the Oilers, considering how little money they have to work with, and the fact that he's proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that he's completely unplayable at this point of his career. But after they pay out his signing bonus in July, he's "only" owed $13 million total over the final four years of the deal. Considering how much the Senators are going to struggle just to get to the cap floor this season, I imagine they'd be interested in taking the deal off their hands with the right sweeteners involved. Turning around and using that newfound cap space on an actual winger or two who can score some goals and has real top-nine utility would go a long way toward solving a lot of what's ailed the Oilers in the recent past.

Los Angeles Kings

Key players hitting UFA: W Brendan Leipsic

Key players hitting RFA: C/W Alex Iafallo, C/W Adrian Kempe, G Cal Petersen

Cap space: $13.29 million

The moves I'd make as GM: Unless something changes between now and then, the Kings are currently slated to have $53 million in cap space for the 2020-21 season tied up in 38-year-old Ilya Kovalchuk, 36-year-old Jeff Carter, 36-year-old Dustin Brown, 36-year-old Dion Phaneuf (bought out this offseason), 36-year-old Mike Richards (bought out in 2015), 35-year-old Jonathan Quick, 33-year-old Anze Kopitar, 33-year-old Alec Martinez and 31-year-old Drew Doughty.

Oof. The Brown and Carter contracts run for another year after that, but they're not really making any real dollars at that point, so they can easily be passed along to someone else. Quick has another year after that, but it's the same sort of deal. The issue is that Doughty and especially Kopitar will be getting awfully long in the tooth at that point and making an obscene amount of money. Suffice it to say that the Kings will be paying for their Stanley Cup championships for a long time to come, but considering they won twice, it's probably worth it.

Those kinds of financial commitments make it almost impossible for them to do anything of significance at the moment. They essentially need to strap in, weather the storm and think about what they're going to do once all of that money is off the books and they have a fighting chance four or five years from now.

The silverest of silver linings is that there's a lot to like about how they've worked the draft over the past couple of years. They've made a concerted effort to add as many highly skilled forward prospects as possible to their pipeline, and it bodes well for the next generation of Los Angeles Kings hockey. They were arguably the big winners of the 2019 draft, having Alex Turcotte and Arthur Kaliyev slide to them before taking Samuel Fagemo later on.

Add those players to Carl Grundstrom, Rasmus Kupari, Akil Thomas, Jaret Anderson-Dolan and Bulat Shafigullin, and there's something legitimately interesting forming below the surface. The reality is that it'll likely take most of those players a couple of years to get to the NHL and be ready to play real minutes anyway, so the Kings at least have a rough timeline to work around now.

San Jose Sharks

Key players hitting UFA: C Joe Pavelski, C Joe Thornton, W Gustav Nyquist, W Joonas Donskoi, D Joakim Ryan

Key players hitting RFA: W Timo Meier, W Kevin Labanc, C Antti Suomela, C Dylan Gambrell

Cap space: $14.84 million

The moves I'd make as GM: It's easier said than done, but the biggest thing the Sharks need to do this summer is make decisions with their head rather than their heart. If there's one GM we can bank on to ruthlessly handle that assignment for the betterment of his team, it's Doug Wilson, who has asserted himself as cold-blooded over the years. When a 37-year-old Patrick Marleau came up for a new contract in the summer of 2017, Wilson let him leave for Toronto after not being willing to give him the third year the Leafs were. It was a tough move after Marleau had spent 19 seasons with the organization, but it proved to be the right one.

They face a similar predicament now with Joe Pavelski, who is a free agent after having spent the first 13 years of his career in San Jose. His value to the organization undoubtedly extends beyond on-ice results, with him not only serving as the team's captain but their emotional heartbeat last postseason after coming back from two gruesome head injuries. He can still clearly play as well, having bounced back to 38 goals last season after a down year by his lofty standards. Just how much he has left in the tank is a fair question nonetheless, seeing as he's set to turn 35 this summer. While the goal totals are nice, what's troubling is that his underlying shot-generation metrics have been steadily dipping, which typically serves as a check-engine light for aging forwards. It didn't ultimately matter because it was buoyed last season by a sky-high 20.2% shooting percentage. Even though he does most of his damage around the net and on the power play, that's clearly not a sustainable figure, and if it dries up, the production will as well.

However, the ultimate deal breaker for the Sharks may not even be the potential term he could be asking for (and receive from another team), as much as the actual dollars themselves. After re-signing Erik Karlsson and committing an unheard-of $26.5 million in cap space to just three defenders (adding Brent Burns and Marc-Edouard Vlasic to the equation), they need to carefully prioritize and ration their remaining resources.

The No. 1 priority is keeping Timo Meier, who has become a trendy name to bring up in the annual offer-sheet roulette game. I don't see him as a realistic candidate there, because unless the offer sheet is in the highest tier -- which is north of $10.5 million per year and nets four first-round picks heading back to San Jose from the signing team -- the Sharks have to match no matter what, and then deal with the fallout accordingly. Meier's overall counting numbers don't necessarily look incredible because he didn't make it onto the Sharks' lethal top power play and played less than 17 minutes per game, but he was an absolute star last season. At 5-on-5, he was tied for 17th in goals with Steven Stamkos, Matt Duchene and Mark Stone; tied for 20th in points with Nathan MacKinnon, Auston Matthews and Jack Eichel; and 9th in shots, just ahead of Alex Ovechkin and John Tavares. At the bare minimum, he's already established a floor of being a dominant even-strength force, and who knows what his ceiling could be considering he doesn't turn 23 until the first week of the 2019-20 season. There's no way the Sharks are letting that kind of player walk away, even if it means opening themselves up to a double-offer-sheet scenario where Kevin Labanc gets pried away, or having to dump Brenden Dillon for pure cap relief.

Between Karlsson, Burns, Logan Couture, Evander Kane and Vlasic, the Sharks currently have a tremendous amount of money committed to a small handful of players who either are already in their 30s or getting there soon. They'll continue to pay those guys big money well into their mid-30s, at which point their price tags will heavily outweigh actual production. If you want to see what that looks like, you can stay in state and look at the Kings. Doug Wilson knows that, but he also doesn't care. They've been so close to winning a Cup for so long that they owe it to themselves to try to finally get over the hump and win it all. If they do, then it'll make the future contract pains easier to swallow. And if they don't, then it's likely someone else's problem anyway because he'll be long gone.

The big sprint to the finish line resumes next season for the Sharks, when they'll likely roll out the majority of a team that very well could've represented the West in the Stanley Cup Final if they hadn't disintegrated into dust along the way this spring.

Vancouver Canucks

Key players hitting UFA: C/W Markus Granlund, D Ben Hutton, D Derrick Pouliot, D Luke Schenn

Key players hitting RFA: W Brock Boeser, W Nikolay Goldobin, W Josh Leivo, C/W Tyler Motte

Cap space: $15.53 million

The moves I'd make as GM: The Canucks are playing a dangerous game right now. They enter this offseason with a lame duck GM, with Jim Benning in the final year of his deal. Considering that the Canucks have missed the playoffs in each of the past four years now, it seems fair to suggest that he's working to save his job at the moment, needing to have some tangible sort of improvement to show ownership heading into next season. That's a scary idea to think about, because his personal interests may not necessarily line up with the best interests of the organization moving forward.

We've already seen some inklings of that already, beginning with the J.T. Miller trade. There's no question that Miller represents a massive upgrade to the team's lineup next season, immediately becoming their second-best winger behind Brock Boeser. The issue is that they paid a premium future first-round pick for it; it's lottery-protected in 2020, but not in 2021, and that could really come back to haunt them. The elephant in the room is that the Lightning had to move Miller's contract this summer, and everyone knew it, meaning that the Canucks overpaid for a player they almost surely could've gotten at a better value. That's ultimately the theme of the Jim Benning regime in Vancouver, which is one that's been all about reasonable player evaluations in a vacuum that have unfortunately been overshadowed by poor business sense.

Benning's track record in unrestricted free agency has been an absolute mess. Over the past three years, the Canucks have been incredibly active in July, yet they don't actually have anything of real substance to show for much of it. In the summer of 2016, they signed Loui Eriksson to a six-year, $36 million deal as he turned 31. The 32 goals he's scored in his three years in a Canucks uniform have barely exceeded the 30 he scored in his final season for the Bruins. In the summer of 2017, they spent a combined $22 million on Sam Gagner, Michael Del Zotto, Anders Nilsson, Alex Burmistrov and Patrick Wiercioch, none of whom are on the team anymore. Last summer, Benning used $27.8 million on Jay Beagle, Antoine Roussel and Tim Schaller, which is a sentence that doesn't need to be elaborated on further. This summer, they've already been cited as the front-runner for Tyler Myers, reportedly preparing an offer that would pay a solid, third-pairing defenseman the going rate of an undisputed No. 1 defenseman. The idea of giving a player of Myers' caliber anything approaching $50 million is a hysterically implausible idea on its face, yet it almost has to be taken as a perfectly plausible reality the more you think about it, given Benning's track record.

It's great that they've secured tremendous talents like Elias Pettersson and Quinn Hughes in the draft, and identified the core members that they'll be building around for years to come. But due to all of those other decisions, the Canucks aren't positioned to take advantage of their two remaining entry-level seasons, given how weak the rest of the roster around them is at the moment.

If everything goes according to schedule, they'll use the next couple of seasons to build up that supporting cast and prepare themselves for a legitimately sustainable run as Pettersson and Hughes enter their prime seasons. But at that point, they'll be making significantly more money, which means that the Canucks will have to be smarter about how they're allocating the remainder of their resources and filling out the lineup. The good news is that most of the ill-advised contracts they've saddled themselves with up until this point will be off the books by the summer of 2022, with Roberto Luongo's recapture penalty, Loui Eriksson's $6 million, Antoine Roussel and Jay Beagle's combined $6 million, and Brandon Sutter's $4.375 million all having expired. There's only really the one season of overlap between Pettersson and Hughes' second deals and some of those contracts, at which point they'll presumably be able to get creative and move things around if need be.

That's why it's imperative that the Canucks don't get ahead of themselves by tying up bad future money this summer, because they'll need to maintain that kind of financial flexibility to really spend and continue to add complementary talent down the road. Every single move they make this offseason should be governed by that one specific mandate, which is exactly why the thought of entrusting someone who just mortgaged a future first-round pick with that responsibility is incredibly alarming -- given that desperation may lead him to make even more ill-advised short-term moves.

Vegas Golden Knights

Key players hitting UFA: D Deryk Engelland, W Brandon Pirri, W Tomas Nosek, C/W Pierre-Edouard Bellemare

Key players hitting RFA: W Nikita Gusev, G Malcolm Subban, D Jimmy Schuldt

Cap space: $0

The moves I'd make as GM: It took only two years for the Golden Knights to take the clean slate they were given and turn it into a salary-cap crisis, finally completing the last step toward becoming a true NHL franchise. In their defense, they've used that money to construct an incredibly solid team that should continue to be a viable contender for the foreseeable future.

They're up against it financially right now, but it's because they've aggressively spent on a number of good players in an attempt to consolidate their early success and keep the good times going in Vegas. There have been a couple of swings and misses, with the Tomas Tatar trade deadline acquisition being the most notable one, but it hasn't been for a lack of effort, and there's something especially commendable about the approach they've taken.

In getting good in such short order, they've also made plenty of other GMs out there squirm, proving that there are indeed many different ways to go out and creatively improve your team. In a league where we constantly hear inactivity justified with assertions that it's impossible to land certain types of players unless you patiently draft and develop them (which conveniently behooves the GMs preaching that, because it buys them a longer leash and more job security), George McPhee and Kelly McCrimmon have shown otherwise.

There are obviously extenuating factors in play with regards to the expansion process and the market itself, but they've still built up an imposing top-six forward group entirely from scratch through trade (Mark Stone and Max Pacioretty), free agency (Paul Stastny) and weaponizing cap space to add extra assets (being given Jonathan Marchessault for taking Reilly Smith's contract off of the Panthers).

We recently saw Erik Haula become a cap casualty after he was traded to the Hurricanes for a prospect, and there's likely still another similar move or two of that ilk to come. The name that keeps coming up is defenseman Colin Miller, who mysteriously fell out of favor with the Golden Knights coaching staff last season. While clearing the $3.875 million figure that comes with him would be undeniably helpful for Vegas right now, it's a situation in which pretty much every other team out there should be trying to cast themselves into the Team B role. It's a perfectly reasonable price tag, taking him up until his age-30 season, and at the very worst he's a defenseman who can make the absolute most of selective deployment. He's a good skater and tremendous puck handler, plays the right side, and always improves his team's results when he's on the ice. He's also a player that has, for whatever reason, been historically undervalued by NHL evaluators, which means that he could surely be had for a bargain price. When looking at the list of defensemen available on the open market this summer and factoring in their next contracts, trading whatever it'll take for him seems like a far more appetizing option.

The Knights are loaded up front, but I'd love to see them move some stuff around to make it work with Nikita Gusev. It's always tough to translate production from one league to another, and it's understandable that Vegas would be hesitant to fully invest in him after the Vadim Shipachyov debacle, but this is an entirely different situation. Gusev turns 27 this summer so he's still in his prime, his skills have shown to be quite projectable to this level in recent international tournaments, and his KHL production was beyond dominant. Last season, he had 82 points in 62 games, outscoring his team's second-leading scorer, Alexander Barabanov, by 36 and Pavel Datsyuk by 40. He also sacrificed financially to come overseas to play in the NHL, in case there's any doubt about his dedication or interest in being here. Put all of that together, and it's a gamble that's worth taking purely based on the unbelievable upside.

Paris Saint-Germain are in talks with AC Milan over the signing of goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma in a deal which would see Alphonse Areola go the other way, sources have told ESPN FC.

The Serie A outfit would prefer a transfer fee upwards of €50 million. Agent Mino Raiola is heavily involved in the deal as he represents both goalkeepers.

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Last season, Areola shared goalkeeping duties with Gianluigi Buffon, having previously split playing time with Kevin Trapp, and PSG's new sporting director Leonardo is keen to bring in an established No. 1.

Buffon, 41, has since left PSG, while Trapp could make his loan return to Eintracht Frankfurt permanent, and sources have told ESPN FC Leonardo has already returned to former club Milan to try to secure the highly-rated Donnarumma.

The Ligue 1 giants have been linked with Donnarumma in the past and Leonardo is a big fan of the 20-year-old.

Milan's financial fair play (FFP) issues are well-documented and it was confirmed on Friday that the Italian giants will not be competing in the Europa League next season.

According to ESPN FC sources, this has both positive and negative consequences with regards to PSG's pursuit of Donnarumma as it potentially frees him up for a move with FFP sacrifices needed this summer. However, it makes Milan less attractive to Areola, who is not keen on joining a club without continental football or being a makeweight in a transfer.

Sources have told ESPN FC PSG are primarily focused on completing a few more sales before the end of June to remain compliant with FFP regulations. Christopher Nkunku is set to join RB Leipzig and Lille are in talks to sign Timothy Weah.

However, from the start of July, financially boosted by their contract renewal with kit manufacturer Nike and new shirt sponsor AccorHotels' Accor Live Limitless (ALL) loyalty platform, PSG will have greater funds at their disposal and can continue to pursue Donnarumma.