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 you realize, we should always discuss Shesterkin slightly bit too, as a result of it’s been a giant subject this week. We touched on it final week, that once more, I imagine that one of many causes they’ve informed (Jacob) Trouba this shall be it, is as a result of they’ve received some large extensions to do.
You realize Shesterkin, I believe they’re going to signal him. I do. I, to me this entire, all the things 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 crew. And we’re signing this participant.
NHL Accidents: Oilers, Panthers, Canadiens, Penguins, and the Kraken
That is now all concerning the quantity. And, you realize, I don’t know what this quantity goes to be. There’s been plenty of 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 large quantity. That’s the one factor the Rangers have of their energy.”
However to me, and this week, all the things 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 received to assume you’ve received an opportunity of profitable once more this yr, as a result of, and with that, not wanting any distraction past what slightly, what you possibly can’t management, has received to be an enormous precedence for you, too. To maintain the deal with the ice due to what they imagine this crew is potential, is probably able to doing.”
Friedman: “I don’t assume 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, although New York is the largest media market in North America and one of many largest on the planet, I don’t assume a participant like Shesterkin, who, you realize, he’s not a kind of guys who talks day by day. He’s not a kind of guys who performs day by day, although he performs a ton. And, you realize, if it was Aaron Decide, it will be in all places day by day. It’s not fairly that for Shesterkin within the States, as it will be if he performed in Canada.
I don’t assume he’s going to be a man I could possibly be confirmed to be completely mistaken. I don’t assume he’s a man that’s going to be bothered by this and I and you realize, The opposite factor too is, I at all times bear in mind (Sergei) Bobrovsky, his first large deal in Columbus he informed them he wasn’t going to speak in the course of the season, after which he signed a giant extension, like in December.
NHL Rumors: An Attention-grabbing Scenario as Igor Shesterkin Tries to Reset the Goalie Market
So I at all times assume {that a} crew can go to an agent and say, ‘Look, I do know you mentioned you gained’t speak to us in the course of the yr, however we predict we will get this carried out now.’ And so, I believe in Shesterkin’s head, the agent may inform us, Shesterkin, we’re not speaking in the course of the yr, go focus, and you’ll say, all proper. That doesn’t imply the crew can’t go, after which the agent can come to the participant later and say, guess what, ‘The crew’s able to make a deal’ after which the participant will do it. So I at all times do not forget that Columbus-Bobrovsky factor.
However once more to me. This entire state of affairs reeks of the Rangers are doing this, it’s only a matter of what the quantity is.”
