Sportsnet: Elliotte Friedman and Kyle Bukauskas on the 32 Ideas: The Podcast – A Bevy of Extensions as Coaching Camps Start episode on Winnipeg Jets RFA ahead Cole Perfetti nonetheless with no contract. The Jets might not agree with on comparable that has been floated on the market.
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Friedman: “You understand, Perfetti. It was, it was attention-grabbing. We had talked about how, I feel a variety of brokers and groups type of checked out it and mentioned that (Shane) Pinto was the, was the, was the, was the participant comparable.
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Not the workforce comparable. The workforce would most likely need to keep away from that. However Pinto was type of the agent comparable for, and the participant comparable, for Perfetti as a result of they’ve performed the identical variety of video games. They’ve mainly obtained the identical variety of factors, and he simply obtained that two 12 months extension from Ottawa within the fives.
You understand, the Jets type of indicated , they don’t see it the identical means. And I get that, like, if I used to be a workforce and I didn’t like that contract, I might say, No, no, we’re not going there, we’re doing this one.
The one factor about Pinto is, I noticed somebody point out that Pinto was arbitration eligible. He wasn’t. He didn’t attain the thresholds of being arbitration eligible. So that you type of should put that one away.
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However I nonetheless perceive what the workforce is making an attempt to do right here. I’m unsure everybody’s going to see it the identical means, however I perceive why the Jets are saying that. They don’t like that Pinto contract. They don’t need to go there for a Perfetti. So their Level is saying, no, no, we don’t see it the identical means. Once more, there’s nonetheless a niche, and we’ll see the place this goes.
