How fast the salary cap is made the team complicated to complete the long-term extension contract.
SportsNet: Elliotte Friedman in 32 Thoughts: Podcast – Welcome to the NHL, the KID episode, which covers how the big jump in salary caps affects some of the current contract negotiations.
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“It’s funny. I did get it, and I got some really interesting feedback, almost we talk about the changes in the hat and what it means. I think everyone wants to know what it will be like, we see. The agency is definitely saying, ‘Hey, the hat is higher, the percentage of the hat.”
However, one thing I absolutely believe is that I don’t like GMS is, I don’t think it’s collusion or something like that. I want to be very cautious about this. Like, I don’t believe it’s collusion because I think these guys will end up doing what they think is the best for their team.
But I absolutely think we have to keep the boundaries at a certain level. Like, you can’t see what Kaprizov offers in Minnesota on 16 eight times and say they’ve colluded. You know, if it was actually collusion, no one was throwing it out there. But I think they’re talking about how far we’re really going to go here? Like, what is that line, everyone is moving? Like, we talk about (Jack) Aichel. We talked about Kyle Connor. You know, we’ve discussed how this can make everyone taller.
And I definitely think that because Kaprizov’s thing was rejected, and I do think Wild is in some way trying to see the next little one. And I don’t believe they will raise the offer.
But I absolutely think that the manager has been talking informally that we have to hold boundaries somewhere here for anyone who is basically unnamed (Connor) McDavid or someone on that level. Not anyone really is.
I will tell you the others I believe in Kyle more. You know, I think there are some players here thinking, well, like McDavid is going to get to the stratosphere he deserves because at the upper limit, paying him 20% of the people, no one complains. I believe, I really believe more than ever, and I’ve said it a few times, but I really believe more than ever if McDavid showed signs in Edmonton, if he did, it would be lower than we all expected.
Like, I think it will surprise people. Because I just, I just think he knows (Leon) Draisaitl makes his own work, and (Darnell) nurse makes his own work, he can’t go to the new stratosphere.
So I would say that, like a manager called me over the weekend and said, “Are you sure of this prediction?” I said, “I can be sure I’m right, right, but I can’t be 100% and I’m not in his mind.”
“Because if his phone number is lower, maybe it will push everyone down.” He sounds a little hopeful, right? Then I used the old line about the truth of baldness, which is his situation, and no one should compare his situation to the situation of others.
Like, I think if you think, if everyone is thinking here, we just say it for argument, for argument, McDavid is $16 million from Kaprizov offered by Minnesota. ”
Bukauskas: “Okay, OK.”
Friedman: “And then, some people think that Connor David just signed 3 times, $15.50 million. You think Minnesota is back in Kaprizov and say, ah, McDavid is 15 five five, we’re throwing your number. We don’t believe it, I don’t believe it. I don’t believe it.
However, I think some managers hope that if McDavid’s number is indeed lower than people expect, it might help push some of these things down. Let’s take a look. It will be like this, we have talked a lot, and we are all here to figure out our own path. ”
Bukauskas: “It’s like everyone is watching on the team…”
Friedman: “Let someone go first.”
Bukauskas: “There is a little friction to cause. Just slow down because if you browse Cap Era, there are a lot of times you like, that’s a deal that’s reset, right?
Friedman: “Yes.”
Bukauskas: “But the truth is that over the next two, three years we will be resetting at a rate we have never seen before.”
Friedman: “Yes.”
Bukauskas: “It seems like, that’s the fear of snowball, for the team and the manager, the rolling speed is too fast to check everything as much as possible. Now who knows where to go from there. It’s fun.”
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