It might have been a couple of weeks ago. But on Hockey Night in Canada they talked about Semins' signing and that lead to Pleks and his contract situation and Leburn said that per CBA rules that 'you can't talk about contract extension with someone until Jan 1. if you had signed them to a one year contract in the summer'. So that could explain why there has been no development on those two contract extensions until now. That could also explain Gainey's so called policy to not extends peoples contract then again I believe most of those guys were coming off long term deals expect for like Ryder and maybe another.