Will Florida Panthers pending UFA Sam Bennett go to the open market or will he re-sign?
Andy Strickland: Elliotte Friedman final week on the Cam and Strick Pod on Florida Panthers pending UFA ahead Sam Bennett.
Friedman: “Such as you take a look at Florida proper now, everyone indicators there on their phrases, proper? Like, it’s like (Sam) Reinhart might have gotten extra if he went on the open market, however he needed to remain. They bought him at a quantity that they have been fairly snug with. You already know, you’re the identical factor you talked about with (Aaron) Ekblad. Like, if he stays, he’s signing on, on the Panthers’ phrases.
And proper now, and likewise Bennett’s agent, his historical past is, ‘I need you to check the market.’ Like he all the time tells his guys, give me a purpose that you simply’re not going to check the market.
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Can Janssen: “He’s bought Mitch Marner too, proper? So identical scenario.
Friedman: “Similar man. (Karel) Vejmelka in Utah proper now (Vejmelka signed a five-year extension with Utah).
Like Darren actually believes, give me a purpose to not check the market. And so I feel Bennett will do very, very properly on the market.
Janssen: “Yeah, seven, seven and a half. I imply
Friedman: “I feel larger, I do. I feel it might be larger.”
The Boston Bruins core knew huge modifications have been coming in the event that they didn’t repair it
James Murphy of RG.org: A supply stated that Bruins Bruins GM Don Sweeney twice informed his core group of Brad Marchand, Charlie McAvoy, David Pastrnak, Charlie Coyle and Brandon Carlo again in November after they fired head coach Jim Montgomery and earlier than the 4 Nations, that after the offseason additions of Elias Lindholm and Nikita Zadorov, that in the event that they didn’t make things better, there could be huge modifications on the commerce deadline.
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Marchand, Carlo, Coyle and Justin Brazeau have been traded on the deadline. Marchand to RG:
“We talked about it; we tried to cease it, and we simply couldn’t,” Marchand admitted. “It simply appeared like each time we tried to do the appropriate issues and alter course, it wouldn’t come collectively for us. Sadly, generally, issues like that occur, and also you attempt to management it, you attempt to do no matter you possibly can, and it simply looks like the whole lot that might go in opposition to us, would go in opposition to us.”
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