Will Matthew Knies go bridge or long-term?
TSN: Darren Dreger on Toronto Maples and pending RFA Matthew Knies and if it’s probably a bridge or long-term deal.
** NHLRumors.com transcription
“Knies is once more, totally different. He’s totally different, and we see the laborious line that groups take with the restricted free brokers. Matthew Knies goes to receives a commission. It feels probably, 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 up to now, 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 value the Canucks at the least $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: “Nicely, I gotta ask about Boeser too. We talked about Pettersson and Miller being traded, and sorry if we’re maintaining you alongside right here, however is Boeser going to be sporting a Canucks uniform after the deadline this 12 months? Like, what’s happening
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 mix that they’ve with him and J.T. Miller, after which they’ve Elias Patterson and Jake DeBrusk. Like, that’s type of the way in which that they’ve it penciled in.
However it’s going to value you. Like, what are you comfy with in case you’re the Vancouver Canucks? You weren’t comfy paying Elias Lindholm, what he needed? Clearly, he was somewhat bit older than Brock Boeser is. But when the Canucks are going to need to hold Boeser you, it’s gonna should at the least be $7.75 (million).”
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Lazarus: “It’s a big gamble although, as a result of in case you lose him for nothing.”
Gaffar: “That’s why I feel they type of get one thing completed like that, that’s why I feel they’re gonna get one thing completed.”
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