The Arizona Republic notes Coyotes General Manager Don Maloney locked up Oliver Ekman-Larsson to a six-year, $33 million extension over the weekend.
Now that Ekman-Larsson's deal is done, Coyotes goalie Mike Smith becomes the next glaring priority. This is what Maloney had to say about both sides deciding to wait until the season's over to start serious negotiations:
"It's Mike's decision. It's a mutual decision that we're not going to discuss a contract with Mike during the year. But as we've shown with Oliver and certainly signing Henrik Samuelsson and the other young players we continue to sign, we're ready, willing and able to sign anybody that we think is important to us long term.
"Our conversation with Mike continues, whether it makes sense to do something now or wait till the end of the season, it's really an ongoing evaluation. We all know Mike is important to us. We hope to sign him and we'd like to sign him and if we could do something sooner rather later, that'd be good. But that may not be in the cards until the end of the season."
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