Might 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. Might 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 definitely within the Western Convention, you bought 4 groups which have been out of it, disappointing yr for Seattle, a disappointing yr for Nashville, San Jose type of understood they’re in a rebuild. Chicago Blackhawks, Elliotte about Connor Berdard type of trying going, ‘I believe (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 can 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 type of an afterthought. He’s within the El Gordo plus-minus police slightly bit too actually because he’s not on an excellent group. And I’m curious okay, type of stress that we bought to do a greater job round him.
What sort of cash do you assume he will get? I might have mentioned 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 subsequent Auston Matthews Connor McDavid participant, who after two years, isn’t.”
Elliotte Friedman: “That’s a superb query. I’ll assume, this caps going up, you understand. I imply, he’s gonna, I imply, clearly him and his reps are gonna, I’ve to be trustworthy, Gordon, I actually haven’t considered it rather a lot. However my place on this all the time is when you could have these gamers signal them for so long as you possibly can, as a result of the quantity doesn’t ever go down.
I’ve to be trustworthy 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 huge, clearly. I actually have to take a look at it. However my place on that is, when you could have these sorts of gamers, you signal them for so long as you possibly can as a result of the worth 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 desires to know what Bedard’s subsequent contract goes to be.”
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Stellick: “It’s, and now we will transfer on for the commerce deadline. It’s an attention-grabbing 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 can all the time wait till the tip of subsequent season for those who 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 possibly can plan long-term such as you by no means have earlier than.
And the brokers are being sensible about that. They’re utilizing proportion of cap, and the groups are attempting to attract a tough line now, they usually’re attempting 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 quite a lot of fascinating philosophical and logistical conversations about this.
I simply don’t have a superb reply for you proper now, however I’ll do some work on it.”
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