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No Progress Between The Boston Bruins And David Pastrnak Regarding Contract Talks

09/07/2017 at 12:01pm EDT

from Steve Conroy of the Boston Herald,

Don Sweeney had no progress to report in his efforts to find a new deal for budding star David Pastrnak, but it sounds as if the two sides have rolled up their sleeves and begun hashing it out in earnest.

“Status quo. (Pastrnak's agent J.P. Barry) and I continue talking and will continue to talk to find a way to get a deal at some point in time," Sweeney said Thursday morning. "There's no real timetable on it and nothing to really expand on other than to say the nature of the talks have been ongoing.

The B's have offered a six- or seven-year deal worth $6 million per season while it is believed that Pastrnak is looking for something more in line with what Edmonton Oilers center Leon Draisaitl's signed earlier in the summer, an eight-year pact worth $8.5 million a season.

The two sides have until December 1 to reach a deal or Pastrnak would be ineligible to play this season, but Sweeney would ideally like him in the fold when training camp begins next Thursday.

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