May Connor Bedard Wait To Signal Subsequent Deal With Chicago?
Elliotte Friedman of Sportsnet was on SiriusXM NHL Community Radio with Gord Stellick and Scott Laughlin. With the commerce deadline over, he was requested about Connor Bedard and the Chicago Blackhawks. May he see Bedard signing his subsequent deal this July 1st, or will he wait?
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Gord Stellick: “So on the opposite aspect, you take a look at some sellers, and positively within the Western Convention, you bought 4 groups which were out of it, disappointing yr for Seattle, a disappointing yr for Nashville, San Jose form of understood they’re in a rebuild. Chicago Blackhawks, Elliotte about Connor Berdard form of wanting going, ‘I feel (Macklin) Celebrini and (Adam) Fantilli are have having extra enjoyable than me.’
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He’s up for July, 1 yr prematurely, such as you would have thought he could be hitting the large time. And you discover the frustration there. His first 10 video games within the NHL, they monitored each shift he did. Now, he’s form of an afterthought. He’s within the El Gordo plus-minus police somewhat bit too actually because he’s not on an excellent group. And I’m curious okay, form of strain that we received to do a greater job round him.
What sort of cash do you assume he will get? I’d have stated two years in the past, no matter high greenback was, however July 1st is like an Alexis Lafreniere contract. I don’t know no matter. I imply right here we’re, nearly two years later, from the following Auston Matthews Connor McDavid participant, who after two years, isn’t.”
Elliotte Friedman: “That’s query. I’ll assume, this caps going up, you already know. I imply, he’s gonna, I imply, clearly him and his reps are gonna, I’ve to be sincere, Gordon, I actually haven’t thought of it loads. However my place on this all the time is when you’ve got these gamers signal them for so long as you may, as a result of the quantity doesn’t ever go down.
I’ve to be sincere with you Gordie, I actually have to consider that extra earlier than I actually reply it, as a result of, look, he’s their franchise cornerstone. He’s their man, and the ask goes to be large, clearly. I actually have to take a look at it. However my place on that is, when you’ve got these sorts of gamers, you signal them for so long as you may as a result of the value doesn’t go down.”
Stellick: “What time are you able to get again to us? Subsequent Wednesday? (laughs)”
Friedman: “I’ll be on the GMs Conferences subsequent week. I’ll pull Kyle Davidson apart and say Gordon Stellick needs to know what Bedard’s subsequent contract goes to be.”
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Stellick: “It’s, and now we are able to transfer on for the commerce deadline. It’s an fascinating query proper now?”
Friedman: “Yeah, no, it’s a extremely good query. I imply, the opposite factor you are able to do is, I imply it’s an RFA deal, proper? Like you might all the time wait till the tip of subsequent season should you wished to. I imply, there’s no query that proper now we’re going by a state of affairs the place with the cap going up, you may plan long-term such as you by no means have earlier than.
And the brokers are being good about that. They’re utilizing proportion of cap, and the groups try to attract a tough line now, they usually’re making an attempt to say we’re not doing that anymore, aside from the highest gamers and Bedard on Chicago, he’s their high participant. So there’s a whole lot of fascinating philosophical and logistical conversations about this.
I simply don’t have reply for you proper now, however I’ll do some work on it.”
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