Will Connor Bedard Await Leo Carlsson To Lengthen First or Vice Versa?
Dave Pagnotta of The Fourth Interval joined Sirius XM NHL Community Radio on Thursday with Steve Kouleas and Craig Button. Pagnotta was requested who would signal first: Leo Carlsson with the Anaheim Ducks or Connor Bedard with the Chicago Blackhawks.
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Craig Button: “Okay, so we talked about that, and you understand, a benchmark now could be what they only paid Jackson Lacombe. So your individual contracts that you simply’ve given now develop into one of the best comparables for the way you’re going ahead. Nicely, I’m going to ask you the elephant within the room. So who’s ready for whom? Is Carlsson ready for Bedard? Is Bedard ready for Carlsson?”
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Dave Pagnotta: “Yeah, good level. I don’t, like, I really feel these negotiations, I imagine, are ongoing by way of truly making an attempt to hammer one thing out between Chicago and Bedard. I don’t assume it’s a matter actually, of who’s going to be first versus second. I believe each their groups, each Chicago and Anaheim, respectively, perceive the particular gamers that they’ve obtained and simply how a lot these guys are going to actually be main the cost for his or her golf equipment transferring ahead.
So is it, if something, comparable with respect to only what the ultimate quantity goes to be? We’ll see, type of, clearly, the place that every one elements in. However I don’t assume this can be a state of affairs the place, like, all the blokes that have been pending UFAs or eligible to develop into UFAs have been subsequent summer season. We’re ready on (Kirill) Kaprizov to actually get the ball rolling. I don’t assume it’s a matter of that. I don’t assume that has a lot of an affect on these guys.
Simply because each are on the high of the league in factors, they each imply loads to their groups. They’re popping out of their ELC, they’re going to be on this league for a very long time, and presumably stars for a very long time. Each are going to get, I might think about, a fairly hefty contracts and fairly deserving ones. And it looks like their groups are greater than snug with dishing that out.”
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