Will Matthew Knies go bridge or long-term?
TSN: Darren Dreger on Toronto Maples and pending RFA Matthew Knies and if it’s possible a bridge or long-term deal.
** NHLRumors.com transcription
“Knies is once more, completely different. He’s completely different, and we see the laborious line that groups take with the restricted free brokers. Matthew Knies goes to receives a commission. It feels possible, primarily based on comparisons across the league, his subsequent contract goes to be a bridge, and when Toronto has to pay him past that bridge, they’re going to have to determine a strategy to pay him.
As a result of the way in which he’s trajectory and the way in which that he’s developed so far, I feel we are able to all see that Matthew Knies is, if he’s not, he’ll be near a star if he’s not already a star now within the NHL.”
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Brock Boeser might price the Canucks no less than $7.75 million
Jonny Lazarus: Irfan Gaffar on what he thinks the Vancouver Canucks will do with pending UFA ahead Brock Boeser.
** NHLRumors.com transcription
Lazarus: “Effectively, I gotta ask about Boeser too. We talked about Pettersson and Miller being traded, and sorry if we’re conserving you alongside right here, however is Boeser going to be sporting a Canucks uniform after the deadline this yr? Like, what’s occurring
with him?”
Gaffar: “Do I feel that they’re going to commerce him? No. I feel that they need to get one thing labored on the market. I feel they actually like the connection, and like the mixture that they’ve with him and J.T. Miller, after which they’ve Elias Patterson and Jake DeBrusk. Like, that’s form of the way in which that they’ve it penciled in.
However it’s going to price you. Like, what are you comfy with when you’re the Vancouver Canucks? You weren’t comfy paying Elias Lindholm, you understand what he wished? Clearly, he was somewhat bit older than Brock Boeser is. But when the Canucks are going to need to maintain Boeser you, it’s gonna need to no less than be $7.75 (million).”
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Lazarus: “It’s a bet although, as a result of when you lose him for nothing.”
Gaffar: “That’s why I feel they form of get one thing executed like that, that’s why I feel they’re gonna get one thing executed.”
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