Sportsnet: Elliotte Friedman on how issues performed out between Brad Marchand and the Boston Bruins that led to his commerce to the Florida Panthers.
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Ron MacLean: “And, yeah, I’d say Elliotte, as a lot as (Mikko) Rantanen was the massive title and the massive deal, that was one thing.”
Friedman: “I nonetheless can’t consider it actually. Like Katie Engleson who’s the sideline reporter, rinkside reporter for the Panthers. She sounded a tweet of a Brad Marchand stall within the Panthers gown room. I used to be like, This appears to be like so unsuitable. I can’t consider I’m even seeing this.
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So just some extra issues I wished to go over from the Marchand state of affairs. Primary, I feel the Bruins and the participant had agreed on time period. Three years. However as Don Sweeney stated yesterday, there was a niche. And there was a niche on AAV. And I don’t assume he was being requested to take a pay reduce or something like that, however I do assume it was a large hole that they clearly couldn’t bridge.
The place I feel this actually went sideways was there was some extent this week the place Brad Marchand, who was at the moment injured and never within the lineup, requested for a face-to-face assembly with Bruins administration. I don’t know precisely when it was. I don’t know precisely who was there. But it surely did occur, and in that assembly, Brad Marchand requested for a compromise. He stated, I’ll compromise. I’ll bend on a few of my ask. I’m asking the Bruins to bend on a few of their stance, and we’ll discover a technique to get this deal accomplished as a result of he wished to remain as a Bruin. And it simply didn’t occur. The Bruins had gone so far as they have been prepared to go
And look, anyone out right here watching hockey within the hockey world has watched Brad Marchand play, we all know he’s going to the Corridor of Fame for one main purpose. He’s acquired an unbelievable quantity of delight, and he places all the things on the road. I feel he was actually stung by that. After which rapidly, the Bruins began to look okay, we’re not going to go any farther. We’re going to begin wanting on the market.
And I feel one of many issues that basically occurred within the final 24 to 48 hours earlier than the deadline was that Marchand’s agent, and I used to be advised by a number of groups, Wade Arnott, made it very clear that Marchand had a spot he wished to go, and clearly that was Florida. After which the final minutes, the Bruins acquiesced and made the deal.
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However so, that’s all the things I perceive there, and I feel it actually harm Marchand that the face-to-face assembly couldn’t get a deal accomplished.
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