{"id":582348,"date":"2026-05-24T03:21:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T03:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/582348\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T03:21:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T03:21:12","slug":"evening-notes-frondell-perfetti-dorofeyev-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/582348\/","title":{"rendered":"Evening Notes: Frondell, Perfetti, Dorofeyev \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n By Gabriel Foley<\/a> |
\n at May 23, 2026 9:56 pm <\/p>\n

The Chicago Blackhawks aren\u2019t concerned about the long-term effects of a scary-looking injury to top prospect Anton Frondell<\/a>. The top Swedish winger got his hand caught in a bench door during Team Sweden\u2019s Friday matchup against Team Italy at the IIHF Men\u2019s World Championship. He missed Sweden\u2019s Saturday matchup with a subsequent injury that is not believed to be serious, per Scott Powers of The Athletic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Frondell has kept his hot season rolling at the World Championship with two points in as many games. He has performed at a top level in competition across the world this season \u2013 netting 28 points in 43 SHL games, nine points in his first 12 NHL games, and eight points in seven games at the 2026 World Junior Championship. No decision has been made on Frondell\u2019s availability for the remainder of the summer tournament, which could leave a major hole in Sweden\u2019s roster.<\/p>\n

Other notes from around the hockey world:<\/p>\n

The Winnipeg Jets face an interesting task in re-signing middle-six winger Cole Perfetti<\/a> this summer. The former 10th-overall pick scored 18 goals and 50 points in the 2024-25 season but fell back to 12 goals and 32 points in 68 games this season. That places him in an interesting spot next to many of his peers from the 2020 and 2021 NHL Draft class, as pointed out by Murat Ates of The Athletic<\/a>. While Perfetti\u2019s struggles to frequently pop up on the scoresheet could keep him from matching the long-term contracts of players like Matthew Coronato<\/a>, Matthew Knies<\/a>, and Alexis Lafreniere<\/a> \u2013 he could find a starting point in negotiations in the six-year, $7.5MM recently signed by Winnipeg\u2019s Gabriel Vilardi<\/a>. While that deal serves as a ceiling, Ates points out that Winnipeg\u2019s bidding could begin in the realm of $5.5MM. Splitting the gap between the two numbers, and leaning on the term garnered by peers, would put Perfetti\u2019s next deal in the realm of four-to-six years and $6MM-to-$6.5MM in cap hit. That cap hit would dedicate roughly half of Winnipeg\u2019s projected $13.628MM in cap space this summer to their top restricted free-agent \u2013 which should leave just enough room to also re-sign Jonathan Toews<\/a>, Isak Rosen<\/a>, and Eric Comrie<\/a>.
\nAnother RFA to watch this summer will be Vegas Golden Knights winger Pavel Dorofeyev<\/a>, who has exploded onto the scene this season with 37 goals and 64 points in the regular season and 10 goals and 14 points in 14 playoff games. That sudden boom \u2013 and Dorofeyev\u2019s seamless fill-in for captain Mark Stone<\/a> over Vegas\u2019 last five games \u2013 could quickly be proving Dorofeyev\u2019s ability as a true, top-six scorer. Teams around the league will pay attention to that as Dorofeyev heads towards restricted-free agency per Shayna Goldman of The Athletic<\/a>. Vegas is only projected to wield $11MM in cap space this summer, per PuckPedia<\/a>, with Reilly Smith<\/a>, Brandon Saad<\/a>, and Rasmus Andersson<\/a> all set to hit the open market. The 25-year-old Dorofyev would certainly be top priority among that list but could command the majority of their savings after a breakout year. If Vegas gets cold feet, the young sniper could be a great option for teams looking to add an immediate impact. Goldman projects both Dorofeyev and Andersson could command as much as $9MM in cap hit, which would pull Vegas nearly $7MM over budget with multiple lineup holes still to fill. After the St. Louis Blues\u2019 success with their offer sheet of winger Dylan Holloway<\/a>, could a team see similar potential in the cap-strapped Golden Knights\u2019 handling of Dorofeyev?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Gabriel Foley | at May 23, 2026 9:56 pm The Chicago Blackhawks aren\u2019t concerned about the long-term…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5121],"tags":[683,96,2000,3350,5,402,78,4,2880,403,5367,180,39,77,18,5288],"class_list":["post-582348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg-jets","tag-anton-frondell","tag-chicago-blackhawks","tag-cole-perfetti","tag-free-agency","tag-hockey","tag-injury","tag-jets","tag-nhl","tag-pavel-dorofeyev","tag-players","tag-rfa","tag-team-sweden","tag-vegas-golden-knights","tag-winnipeg","tag-winnipeg-jets","tag-winnipegjets"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116627405740672660","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582348","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=582348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}