GM Kelly McCrimmon on not retaining Jonathan Marchessault, “Well there’s a lot that goes into it. We did offer him 4 years, which then it ended up turning into a 5 year deal from Nashville which we weren’t comfortable going to.”

I know the topic of Marchessault and his contract has been beaten to death by now, but knowing they did in fact offer him four years and he still chose Nashville to get one more is interesting. Of course, there’s still the aspect of the deferred money we don’t know much about. But it does hurt knowing Marchy could have been a Knight for four more years and he still chose to leave.