NHL Community: Elliotte Friedman thinks the New York Rangers are going to must bend on the subject of an Igor Shesterkin contract extension. He has a case to be their highest-paid participant, however by how a lot?
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EJ Hradek: “Elliott, I need to take you proper round our space right here, the New York Rangers. There’s been plenty of dialogue about, , Shesterkin. He’s within the final yr of his contract. You already know…”
Friedman: “He’s? I hadn’t heard something.”
Hradek: “Yeah, , we had, I had my man, Kevin Weekes right here was speaking about, like, , he turned down a deal. I do know you’ve been attempting to trace this down as properly. I imply, it’s an fascinating story for certain.
What’s he going to get? Additionally, with (Alexis) Lafreniere, what’s the state of affairs there? Give us a, what are you aware about what’s taking place with the Rangers proper now, with these two gamers by way of extensions?
Friedman: “I feel this, I feel that in the case of Shesterkin, I feel it’s simply, it’s the Rangers are going to must get snug with the place he needs to go. I feel he needs to remain in New York. I feel he needs to be a Ranger. However I feel there’s a means that he and his representatives view the state of affairs. That’s, he’s the perfect Ranger, and he needs to be paid as such.
And , EJ, I used to be, I discussed our pod this week, that what one man mentioned to me was, what he would do is, if he was the Rangers, is he’d provide them yet another greenback than (Artemi) Panarin and see if that will get it carried out. And I don’t know if that’s occurred, however I believed it was an fascinating concept.
I do assume the Rangers are in the end going to must bend on this one. You already know, the opposite factor too is it acquired out in the beginning of the week final week, and Kevin had an amazing scoop. It did create some onerous emotions, I feel. Nearly the truth that that acquired out. I feel, like, there have been individuals who felt that Shesterkin was, that was, it was being made to look unhealthy. They didn’t like that.
And so I feel everyone right here has sort of gone again down and tried to be somewhat bit extra hermetic. However I nonetheless consider on the finish of the day, he’s going to be a long-time Ranger, and the Rangers will simply must bend to nearer to the place he needs to go.”