Doubt it. Management's attention is likely focused on tracking the market to see who they can scoop up and in re-signing their pending RFAs.
Plus there's still the whole expansion draft thing, and the (unlikely) concept they wait until after the expansion draft to extend Alzner so they can leave him unprotected.
Nah - you can't risk having him even be close to free agency. Lock him up and don't even take that risk. What if we do have a deep playoff run and Alzner is locking **** down and rumors are out there he could get paid top D money.... Gotta lock the man up early and make it a priority.
Plus, it's not like GMBM is going to be busy once the season starts since he doesn't do any moves in-season that matter - so he'll have plenty of time to work on the current players deals
..... My GMBM hate is getting to be too much maybe. Time for me to take a step back? lol.