NHL Rumors: Max Pacioretty Has 3 “Firm Offers”

It was essentially yet another lost season in 2023-24 for veteran Max Pacioretty, but that hasn’t stopped the offers from coming in this summer.

According to hockey insider Frank Seravalli of Daily Faceoff, “Max Pacioretty has firm offers in-hand from at least three teams, the veteran forward expected to make a decision soon.”

After missing half of the 2021-22 season, then all but five games of the 2022-23 season after tearing his Achilles for the second time in two years, Pacioretty’s 35-year-old body took some time to get up to speed last year. He managed to get into 47 games for the Washington Capitals as the calendar turned, but struggled to just 4 goals and 23 points—his worst output in 14 seasons.

He believes he’s finally healthy and ready to be a more impactful contributor once again. He’s been a 30-goal scorer six times in his career. After the campaign was done, he admitted that he was a shell of himself last season:

“I never had a year where I didn’t score a lot of goals, and so that was new for me. That being said, definitely it took a lot for me to even get out there and get on the ice and I take a little bit of a moral victory in that regard, but at the same time, I was far from my old self, and it’s hard to accept sometimes."

But it sounds like there are at least three teams willing to take a roll of the dice that Patches can at least recapture some of his goal-scoring magic.