Talks between the Coyotes and restricted free agent Tobias Rieder are ongoing, but it does not appear the sides are any closer to a deal.
A league source said Tuesday that Rieder’s camp is now looking for a two-year deal worth an average annual value of $2.75 million, but the Coyotes do not appear interested in such a deal. Rieder’s camp has also floated the ideas of a three-year deal (also with a $2.75 million AAV), and a four-year deal with an AAV of $3 million.
The same source said it is not true that Rieder’s camp initially asked for a deal with an AAV comparable to Nazem Kadri’s current $4.5 AAV with Toronto, as Arizona Sports previously reported.
Kadri’s complete contract history was just one of several used in an analytical breakdown of comparables. Also included on that list were players such as Buffalo’s Evander Kane and Tyler Ennis, Dallas’ Cody Eakin, Los Angeles’ Tyler Toffoli, Minnesota’s Charlie Coyle, Nino Niederreiter and Mikael Granlund, Columbus’s Boone Jenner, Detroit’s Tomas Tatar, Carolina’s Elias Lindholm, the Rangers’ Mika Zibanejad, Edmonton’s Nail Yakupov and the Islanders Brock Nelson.
Arizona Sports reported previously that the Coyotes would likely offer somewhere between $2 million and $2.3 million per year on a two-year deal, and closer to $2.5 million on a three-year deal.