Sportsnet: Elliotte Friedman and Jeff Marek on the 32 Ideas: The Podcast – Loser Pondering episode on.
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Marek: Okay, you understand, one factor that I discovered fascinating that you just talked about this week, was Juuse Saros and the Igor Shesterkin contract.”
Friedman: “I truly didn’t assume …”
Marek: “Maintain on, I wish to …. ”
Friedman: “… this was a giant deal.”
Marek: “No, you understand why it is a huge deal, as a result of you understand the place my mind flashback to instantly? 2021. The summer time of 2021 the Oilers had been doing an extension with Darnell Nurse. I believe they had been wanting, Elliotte, someplace within the neighborhood of 5 instances 5. I believe one thing, one thing like that.”
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Friedman: “Oh, after which all these different D signed.”
Marek: “After which, in order that, yeah. So then in July on the twenty third, Seth Jones signed a deal. Eight years $76 million, $9.5 million. And hastily this, the Darnell Nurse deal modified and it modified for lots of defenseman, particularly.
That’s why I believe it is a huge story once more, very similar to the best way that the Seth Jones’s of the world modified the panorama for gamers like Darnell Nurse. No matter finally ends up occurring right here with Igor Shesterkin, it’s going to, goes to utterly influence Juuse Saros if he permits it to and doesn’t simply rush to do a deal earlier than Shesterkin units a brand new bar. That’s why I believe it’s a giant deal.”
Friedman: “Okay, so that is a kind of issues. I do a weekly radio hit in Nashville, which I actually appreciated doing like Caroline Fenton and Willy Daunic and Derrick Mason, I actually take pleasure in speaking to them. So Willy requested me , like do you assume the agent for Saros, who’s Kevin app may look forward to Shesterkin.
I used to be like, yeah, positive. I imply, completely may if that’s what he wished to do. And this goes, I filed this different a kind of issues that you just simply by no means know, within the social media world, what’s going to take off? Like there’s issues that you just say, you assume they’re incorrect, they’re simply regular, and so they go kablooey after which there’s issues say, Oh, that is gonna be an enormous bomb and it goes completely nowhere. There’s no management over. And that is a kind of issues I mentioned, that is completely regular. Like, in fact, the agent may wait. And the subsequent factor I knew I used to be going loopy. And I used to be like, wow, I didn’t assume I truly mentioned something loopy right here.
Look, I imagine that. The one factor I say that I actually follow is that, one of many causes I believe Saros was named acquired out within the commerce rumors across the deadline this yr and at one time, I mentioned I believed it was each 50-50, is that if the negotiations had gone very well, I don’t assume there would have been any probability he was getting traded.
And I do assume the Predators and his representatives met and so they talked about him being a Predator for all times. After which when the 2 sides began speaking about parameters of a contract, it wasn’t in a spot that Nashville was snug with. And it’s all negotiation and you understand, you see what occurs. And I perceive that negotiations are hardly ever linear. So these items go on I have a tendency to not freak out about them.
So once they introduced up may he wait as a result of Shesterkin’s gonna signal a giant quantity? I’m like, yeah, completely sure it may occur. However once more, simply because that that may be a tactic of the agent and what he ought to do, it doesn’t imply that that’s the best way it’s going to finish up.
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And, you understand, that’s the one factor right here, I, it positive sounds to me like Saros and the Predators wish to proceed this marriage. You simply acquired to get to a quantity and Barry Trotz even mentioned on the finish of the season, like don’t be shocked if this goes previous July 1st.
So I believe even he, like most normal managers, is wanting not essentially the place we’re, however the place we’re going. So I imply, I used to be somewhat shocked this, this one became information, however, you understand, like this present day you, you by no means know what’s going to be huge.”
