Sportsnet: Elliotte Friedman and Kyle Bukauskas on the 32 Ideas: The Podcast – Stay From L.A. It’s 32 Ideas episode, on the newest on the New York Rangers and pending UFA goaltender Igor Shesterkin.
** NHLRumors.com transcription
Friedman: “And , we should always speak about Shesterkin a little bit bit too, as a result of it’s been a giant matter this week. We touched on it final week, that once more, I consider that one of many causes they’ve informed (Jacob) Trouba this shall be it, is as a result of they’ve acquired some huge extensions to do.
You recognize Shesterkin, I feel they’re going to signal him. I do. I, to me this complete, the whole lot that’s come out this week is all concerning the Rangers saying there’s no must panic right here. We’re signing this participant. We’re making him the highest-paid goaltender within the NHL. We acknowledge his significance to us. We all know he’s the spine of this group. And we’re signing this participant.
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That is now all concerning the quantity. And, , I don’t know what this quantity goes to be. There’s been numerous reporting it’s going to be $12 (million), $12.5, $11.5.
In the end, the one benefit the Rangers have is that they have the eighth yr.”
Bukauskas: “Proper.”
Friedman: “So if Shesterkin doesn’t signal there, he’s going to lose a yr at a really huge quantity. That’s the one factor the Rangers have of their energy.”
However to me, and this week, the whole lot that’s come out this week proves it. They’re signing it. They’re signing it. It’s only a matter of what that quantity goes to be.”
Bukauskas: “As a result of in the event you’re the Rangers, you’ve acquired to suppose you’ve acquired an opportunity of successful once more this yr, as a result of, and with that, not wanting any distraction past what a little bit, what you may’t management, has acquired to be an enormous precedence for you, too. To maintain the concentrate on the ice due to what they consider this group is potential, is doubtlessly able to doing.”
Friedman: “I don’t suppose he’d be bothered by it. I imply, you’re proper. Like, to me, it’s harder in the event you’re in Canada, like, though New York is the largest media market in North America and one of many largest on the planet, I don’t suppose a participant like Shesterkin, who, , he’s not a kind of guys who talks day-after-day. He’s not a kind of guys who performs day-after-day, though he performs a ton. And, , if it was Aaron Decide, it will be in all places day-after-day. It’s not fairly that for Shesterkin within the States, as it will be if he performed in Canada.
I don’t suppose he’s going to be a man I might be confirmed to be completely fallacious. I don’t suppose he’s a man that’s going to be bothered by this and I and , The opposite factor too is, I at all times bear in mind (Sergei) Bobrovsky, his first huge deal in Columbus he informed them he wasn’t going to speak through the season, after which he signed a giant extension, like in December.
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So I at all times suppose {that a} group can go to an agent and say, ‘Look, I do know you stated you received’t speak to us through the yr, however we predict we will get this completed now.’ And so, I feel in Shesterkin’s head, the agent may inform us, Shesterkin, we’re not speaking through the yr, go focus, and you’ll say, all proper. That doesn’t imply the group can’t go, after which the agent can come to the participant later and say, guess what, ‘The group’s able to make a deal’ after which the participant will do it. So I at all times keep in mind that Columbus-Bobrovsky factor.
However once more to me. This complete state of affairs reeks of the Rangers are doing this, it’s only a matter of what the quantity is.”
