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: “Effectively 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 side of this. When it’s such as you suppose, oh possibly they’re simply gonna get it completed. The quantity is gonna get met.
Nevertheless it’s like possibly that’s not what they’re searching for. And that’s not what the recommendation is. And it’s like that a part of it to me is what jumped out. That possibly they only need to go to UFA.
Bourne: “Effectively when you’re …”
McKee: “Possibly they need this, prefer it’s not…”
Bourne: “Like in the event that they’re gonna overpay you, you may signal however in any other case like, loads 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 loads of them simply go, as a substitute of signing with their previous staff anyhow.
Kypreos: “However they’d been down this path earlier than. Clearly, he wasn’t a UFA, he was a restricted free agent but it surely 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 look ahead to a Chicago Blackhawks staff simply to say to the Leafs, ‘you need to match it trigger that is the place we’re at?’ Is that, is that the place it’s going to go?
Bourne: “Effectively certain. And the scary half, once more talked about on this piece is simply that when you lose Willy Nylander, like let’s say you’re like okay, we worth the cap area or we had been going to commerce him on the deadline, or no matter, when 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 may’t lose them each.
So rapidly, , 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 sport breakers, our man who performs probably the most minutes, , and in order that adjustments issues had been …”
Kypreso: “So do you decide one now, you decide one later,
Bourne: “You try this.”
Kypreos: “Otherwise you attempt to discover a approach to get them each?
Bourne: “You decide. You both decide one, if that’s no matter otherwise you signal Willie for the additional 500 (thousand) that he’s searching for.
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 motive I might say sure is as a result of Treliving has made it clear he doesn’t need 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 comparable the scenario is. To consider, prefer to have a man that might transfer from one scenario to return into one other scenario with the identical, I obtained a extremely elite participant that’s on the final 12 months with like, is it, they’re the identical agent?
Bourne: “I feel 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.”
