We should have some clarity on Mark Stone at some point in the next day or two which should help thaw out a rental market that still hasn’t quite gotten going.



The Ottawa Senators went hard at the Stone camp last week with some contract offers and await its response. Will that response come in the name of a counter-offer or rather a decision to head to market, we should soon find out.



Matt Duchene will be held out of Ottawa’s next game, as Darren Dreger first reported Tuesday night and another source told me likely the next few games, in fact. One assumes the Senators would be deliberating the same depending on the answer to the contract offer from the Stone camp.



For what it’s worth from one Western Conference team executive Tuesday: “I think Duchene is dealt but Stone re-signs,’’ he said.



Purely speculation on his part but thought I’d pass it on. Personally, I think they both end up getting...