May 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. May he see Bedard signing his subsequent deal this July 1st, or will he wait?
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Gord Stellick: “So on the opposite facet, you have a look at some sellers, and positively within the Western Convention, you bought 4 groups which were out of it, disappointing 12 months for Seattle, a disappointing 12 months for Nashville, San Jose form of understood they’re in a rebuild. Chicago Blackhawks, Elliotte about Connor Berdard form 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 12 months 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 form of an afterthought. He’s within the El Gordo plus-minus police just a little bit too actually because he’s not on an excellent workforce. And I’m curious okay, form of stress that we acquired to do a greater job round him.
What sort of cash do you suppose he will get? I might have stated 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, virtually two years later, from the following Auston Matthews Connor McDavid participant, who after two years, isn’t.”
Elliotte Friedman: “That’s a great query. I’ll suppose, this caps going up, you already know. 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 quite a bit. However my place on this at all times is when you have got these gamers signal them for so long as you may, 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 large, clearly. I actually have to take a look at it. However my place on that is, when you have got these sorts of gamers, you signal them for so long as you may 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 needs 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 very good query. I imply, the opposite factor you are able to do is, I imply it’s an RFA deal, proper? Like you possibly can at all times wait till the top of subsequent season for those who wished to. I imply, there’s no query that proper now we’re going by means of a scenario the place with the cap going up, you may plan long-term such as you by no means have earlier than.
And the brokers are being good about that. They’re utilizing proportion of cap, and the groups try to attract a tough line now, and so they’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 a whole lot of fascinating philosophical and logistical conversations about this.
I simply don’t have a great reply for you proper now, however I’ll do some work on it.”
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