We also had a chance to chat with new prospect and 2025 first-round pick Bill Zonnon. When he used the word \u201cSwagger,\u201d I chuckled a bit because that word has bounced off the walls of the Penguins\u2019 locker rooms for quite a while. He\u2019s actually quite humble and gave a surprisingly honest answer when I asked how close he felt to being ready for the NHL. Get to know Bill Zonnon<\/a>.<\/p>\n It was Day 1 of the development camp. There were no competitive drills and not much going on that we could report on, so you\u2019ll have to wait until we can really see what\u2019s up. I can tell you, Gabriel Dagle is BIG, and he seems to move quite well. I stand behind our initial draft grade that he was a steal.<\/p>\n Gabriel Daigle, Pittsburgh Penguins prospect<\/p>\n NHL Trade Talk, News, & National Hockey Now<\/p>\n Detroit Hockey Now: Steve Yzerman finally got a goalie when he acquired John Gibson, but the other big names and top players were off the board or not interested. However, Yzerman is now fishing in the NHL trade pond for a top-six forward and top-four defenseman. Those are the Red Wings\u2019 trade needs<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sportsnet: The latest on the top available unrestricted free agents<\/a>.<\/p>\n TSN: Ehlers took an extra couple of days to decide, and he chose the Carolina Hurricanes for an average annual value of $8.5 million. Ehlers got paid, and Carolina finally got a top player from the outside who wants to be there<\/a>.<\/p>\n Teams really have to make sure they can trade a player before his final year on a contract. GMs can\u2019t lose these players for nothing.<\/p>\n Boston Hockey Now: I think the Bruins got the steal of the first round when James Hagens fell to them at No. 7. It\u2019s not often a consensus top pick one year before the draft falls that far without serious injury or slump. However, Hagens has arrived, and everyone is talking about him at the\u00a0Boston Bruins development camp<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Happy Independence Day. The Daily will be a short and sweet version, as we must get to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[93,58,5,4,4433,99,100,18404],"class_list":{"0":"post-110540","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-detroit-red-wings","9":"tag-featured","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-nhl-trade","13":"tag-penguins-news","14":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins","15":"tag-top-free-agents"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/114795318044924646","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Gabriel](\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/8F404F0A-95E2-4D25-833F-547CD7AF4F93_1_105_c-300x225.jpeg\")
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