Sportsnet: Nick Kypreos, Justin Bourne and Sam McKee talk about William Nylander’s contract scenario with the Toronto Maple Leafs and if he could possibly be headed to unrestricted free company.
** NHLRumors.com transcription
McKee: “Nicely the factor that caught out to me about this piece and it’s like this seeing it specified by entrance of me, was the Lewis Gross facet of this. When it’s such as you assume, oh perhaps they’re simply gonna get it performed. The quantity is gonna get met.
But it surely’s like perhaps that’s not what they’re in search of. And that’s not what the recommendation is. And it’s like that a part of it to me is what jumped out. That perhaps they simply wish to go to UFA.
Bourne: “Nicely in case you’re …”
McKee: “Perhaps they need this, prefer it’s not…”
Bourne: “Like in the event that they’re gonna overpay you, you’ll be able to signal however in any other case like, a number of Lewis Gross’s purchasers are inclined to make it yeah you UFA.”
McKee: “Which I assumed was like, that simply seen them like listed on the market like, , Brandon Saad, Krug, Dumoulin, Noel Acciari. I do know these guys aren’t in the identical class, however a number of them simply go, as a substitute of signing with their previous workforce anyhow.
Kypreos: “However that they had been down this path earlier than. Clearly, he wasn’t a UFA, he was a restricted free agent however it nonetheless price two months of the season. Two and a half months. So that they, they know they’re coping with an agent that has a consolation zone to go proper to the very finish.”
Bourne: “Yeah.”
Kypreos: “Now, do they ..”
Do they wait, do they await a Chicago Blackhawks workforce simply to say to the Leafs, ‘you wish to match it trigger that is the place we’re at?’ Is that, is that the place it’s going to move?
Bourne: “Nicely positive. And the scary half, once more talked about on this piece is simply that in case you lose Willy Nylander, like let’s say you’re like okay, we worth the cap house or we had been going to commerce him on the deadline, or no matter, in case you don’t have Willy Kneeland in your roster, after which it’s Mitch Marner’s flip for negotiation. you’re screwed, as a result of you’ll be able to’t lose them each.
So hastily, , Mitch has you up towards a wall at that time the place you’re saying we gotta preserve one in all our elite wingers, our recreation breakers, our man who performs probably the most minutes, , and in order that adjustments issues had been …”
Kypreso: “So do you choose one now, you choose one later,
Bourne: “You try this.”
Kypreos: “Otherwise you attempt to discover a method to get them each?
Bourne: “You decide. You both choose one, if that’s no matter otherwise you signal Willie for the additional 500 (thousand) that he’s in search of.
Kypreos: “Do you see any world in any respect the place they consider transferring him in March,
Bourne: “Willy?
Kypreos: “Sure. As a result of I don’t.”
Bourne: “The one cause I’d say sure is as a result of Treliving has made it clear he doesn’t wish to do the (Johnny) Gaudreau factor once more the place he simply will get, I can’t do something and the man simply leaves.”
McKee: “The place, it’s exceptional how related the scenario is. To consider, wish to have a man that will transfer from one scenario to return into one other scenario with the identical, I bought a very elite participant that’s on the final 12 months with like, is it, they’re the identical agent?
Bourne: “I believe so. Lewis Gross”
McKee: “Lewis Gross. So it’s like, I can’t consider many like I looks like he’s having Groundhog Day, like deja vu right here.”
