Sportsnet 590 The FAN: Analyst/broadcaster Ed Jovanovski on The FAN Hockey Present present speaking about Florida Panthers’ pending free agent Sam Bennett.
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Matt Marchese: “What they’ve created right here is a company the place guys wish to keep. You understand, Matthew Tkachuk needed to go to Florida. They’ve been capable of hold some guys like Carter Verhaeghe signed an extension to remain there. He might have gotten extra money on the open market. Anton Lundell signed an extension. I do know he was an RFA.
The place do you suppose Sam Bennett suits into that dialog? As a result of it is a man who, by all accounts, is without doubt one of the, one of many unicorns of the NHL. Not solely can he rating, he can struggle, he’s bodily, he can play a number of positions. Like he’s a man you need in your workforce who would receives a commission some huge cash on the open market.
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Do you suppose he’s a type of guys that appears and says, I wish to keep right here as a result of I actually like what we’re constructing right here, and I like taking part in for this group?
Jovanovski: “Yeah, no ifs and buts about that. I feel Sam Bennett, you recognize, needs to be a Florida Panther. You understand, there’s, you recognize, what we’ve been listening to clearly, you recognize, contract talks have began with him, and I feel, hopefully, it’s progressing in the suitable route.
Sam Bennett is a type of gamers such as you mentioned, he’s type of is that unicorn kind participant the place he’s not afraid. He’ll, he’ll struggle, he’ll get to these soiled areas. He’s good at F1 entering into there and separating participant from puck. He’s not afraid. And he’s a type of guys that sticks his nostril and all the things.
And while you take a look at a participant in a state of affairs, you may have Carter Verhaeghe and Matthew Tkachuk in your wings. I imply, what’s the value, like what’s the value to go away?
I imply, while you while you take a look at that, you may have the success in a spot proper right here, your Stanley Cup champion. I take a look at their final video games in opposition to Dallas, who Vegas has them up there as Stanley Cup favorites as properly. We took care of them fairly good. Second recreation was a little bit bit nearer. However why would you wish to go to a unique state of affairs?
And for the workforce, you’re going to do your greatest to lock these gamers up, and it is perhaps take a little bit bit much less, as a result of you may have dumped some huge cash into your core gamers.
And one other man that’s coming as much as is (Aaron) Ekblad, how do you change a right-handed defenseman that’s received the expertise because the Champion now.
He’s, there’s plenty of caveats, I suppose, to all this, however going again to Bennett, I hope, as a man that’s protecting the workforce and, and an enormous fan of hockey, watching him play every night time, he doesn’t have a day without work. If he’s not producing offensively, which he’s proper now, he’s doing different little issues to be a catalyst for his workforce.
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So he’s a tricky man to see, to see stroll in sure areas. So I feel the efforts going to be there from the Panthers. They know the significance of this participant they usually’ll do their greatest to lock him up.”
