Devils and Flames Pause Talks, For Now, Might Choose Up Once more At Some Level
Dave Pagnotta of the Fourth Interval joined the Sirius XM NHL Community Radio Energy Play phase with Steve Kouleas and Carter Hutton, and when requested in regards to the New Jersey Devils and Calgary Flames speaking about Jacob Markstrom, Pagnotta said issues are usually not useless simply but, however the groups hit the pause button for now.
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Steve Kouleas: “So that you talked about the Avs and Marc-Andre Fleury probably. Have we talked about different goalies within the combine right here? And I believe I requested you virtually each week now. Carolina, Freddie coming, so perhaps no, perhaps it’s simply Markstrom to New Jersey. How about that commerce? Wouldn’t that be commerce for the Devils?”
Dave Pagnotta: “Yeah, it will actually. It’s only a matter of them figuring issues out. I reported on Friday that Markstrom, from my understanding is he can be prepared to waive his no-move clause to go to New Jersey. And we all know the Flames have some curiosity in a couple of totally different Devils gamers. Alex Holtz being one among them. It Appears like they actually have made momentum on discussions, however this can be a large, difficult transfer. There are funds concerned, and I believe there’s a pause.
I don’t consider that issues are useless within the water between the 2 golf equipment. I believe they’re going to sort of simply pause issues, reconvene shortly, give all people a transparent head and attempt to get again to tackling that dialogue. If it doesn’t occur now, it actually may very well be revisited within the offseason.
If that’s the case, then I believe New Jersey goes to look to one of many rental goalies, whether or not it’s, you realize, (Kaapo) Kahkonen, for instance, in San Jose. That’s one other man that’s sort of on their radar. They’ll go short-term repair from time to time attempt to revisit Markstrom or (John) Gibson or any person else in the summertime, so I believe that’s sort of the place their heads are at with respect to goaltending.
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I imply, that is one other crew, Hanifin/Tanev, on the radar, a couple of for New Jersey. However exterior by way of different groups sort of trying, you realize, between the pipes, you realize, San Jose has acquired each of their guys that which might be out there. You may have Jake Allen as effectively. One 12 months left on his contract. So it’s not a rental per se, however the Canadiens have been holding agency on their price ticket.
They don’t simply wish to give him away for a late choose. They worth him within the room, so there’s that component as effectively. From their facet of issues, they don’t wish to rush shifting him due to what he brings into that locker room. So the goalie market is slowly, I believe, getting there, no less than from a dialogue level.
There was a little bit of a lull. Now we’re again up a little bit bit. We’ll see sort of how issues unfold. And now we’re right here in Buffalo as effectively. We may very well be getting into the goalie combine by way of any person extra long-term, and that will surely spice issues up.”
