How A lot Will The Florida Panthers Will Pay Sam Bennett To Preserve Him
Dave Pagnotta of the Fourth Period was on TSN Radio in Montreal and was requested about Sam Bennett and the way negotiations are progressing with the Florida Panthers. Pagnotta states the Panthers wish to hold him, however issues won’t get performed till after the season is over.
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Host: “Dave, we noticed Florida on Saturday night time on the Bell Centre, and Sam Bennett is a pending unrestricted free agent. How do you suppose that every one performs out? It’s a really attention-grabbing case the place you have got a participant who, within the common season, doesn’t produce a ton. He may get some profession highs this yr, however he’s a 50-point participant. He’s simply dynamite within the playoffs, which is, which is efficacious, however you recognize, the 82 video games that you just pay him for could also be much less. So, like, how do you suppose all of it goes in the summertime for Bennett?”
Dave Pagnotta: “Yeah, I imply, this sort of man is, you talked about the intangibles that Brady Tkachuk brings. Sam Bennett brings a major quantity of that as nicely. And sure, he doesn’t produce on the identical level stage, however with the group that they’ve in Florida and the way in which that he’s deployed, he doesn’t must be.
They’ve obtained different weapons on that squad that may focus extra on the offensive facet of issues, in comparison with if you want the gritty, muck sort of play that Sam Bennet brings, even within the common season. The sport that they performed right here in Toronto earlier within the week, on Thursday final week, excuse me, like that had a playoff vibe to it, and wasn’t simply Bennett. There have been a number of others, however Bennett particularly was taking part in at that sort of tempo, it’s virtually a little bit of message sending as nicely to a divisional rival that’s chasing you for high seed within the division.
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These negotiations had been ongoing across the time that Carter, firstly of the season when Carter Verhaeghe signed his deal, they usually tried to maintain that going. It died off just a little bit. They’ve resumed discussions. And so they’ll carry it out. I feel they perceive, particularly with the group that they’ve obtained there, led by a administration group, excuse me, led by Invoice Zito attempt to if they will’t determine this out now, all proper, simply let’s pause and get again to it for them, they hope for the top of June.
Just like how they dealt with Sam Reinhart final season. I don’t know the particular {dollars} that Bennett is searching for, however I feel will probably be just like what Verhaeghe ended up getting. Now Verhaeghe signed for seven per. I feel Bennet will probably be above that. We’ll see precisely the place that will get to. Can he get to the eight mark? I feel in the summertime, if he hits open market, he can most likely be in and round that.
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Florida, once more, has the profit, like few groups, of no state tax, so that can issue into the ultimate quantity if he does keep, because it did with Verhaeghe because it has with numerous their different guys, however I feel Florida will do all the things that he can to attempt to make it occur and to maintain him.
However Zito is a shrewd negotiator, so and he understands each, being a former participant agent as nicely. So we’ll see sort of how this evolves. However he’s, virtually a useful piece to a cup-contending roster. And if Florida needs to maintain issues going, I feel they acknowledge the significance of preserving them alongside.”
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