Teams could also be pondering twice about allowing a possible trade partner to talk to a pending UFA about an extension
Sportsnet: Elliotte Friedman on 32 Thoughts: The Podcast – Canada Can’t Refuse Connor Bedard episode, on the thought of teams getting away from allowing teams to seek advice from a player about an extension before trading for them.
** NHLRumors.com transcription
Kyle Bukauskas: “And I assumed the purpose you made too on radio, and this isn’t pertaining particularly to 1 team or one player. But just that whole idea, in the event you’re trading for any individual that’s on an expiring deal, that you might be taking a look at signing to an extension, the workflow, I assume, through all of that, by way of, let’s make a deal first before you’ll be able to seek advice from my guy if you need to sign them to a brand new contract, versus the opposite way around. The purpose you made, there was, was an interesting one.
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Friedman: “Well, so if anybody wasn’t listening to me on radio on Thursday, and shame on you in the event you weren’t. I remember talking to Craig Conroy after they made the Noah Hanifin cope with Vegas. And Craig Conroy said after that that it’s probably not the method he would need to do again. Because they gave Vegas permission, and although they didn’t sign the extension as a part of the deal, it didn’t take long for it to occur after.
So you’ll be able to mainly take a look at this and say, Vegas made that deal just about knowing what it could take to sign Hanifin, within the ballpark, and Hanifin’s representatives, Pat Brisson, knowing what Vegas desired to do.
And when Vegas made that deal, I believe people around, I remember people around it were type of like, that is going to get done. Like there might be an extension here, and eventually it was.
And I remember Craig Conroy talked about it afterwards, and, and he said that if he was in that situation again, next time, he would change it. And he would make the trade he was blissful with first, after which say, ‘Okay, you need to seek advice from this player about an extension? You do, you have got that you have got that power, you have got that ability. But this, in the event you make an extension, that is the deal we’re agreeing to. It’s done.’
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And I actually, I had a GM call me after hearing that clip, and he said that that’s a lesson that I believe lots of us have learned. That sometimes you think that it’s higher, oh yeah, okay, you make it, you sign an extension with that team, after which we’ll work out a trade, and also you’ve actually lost power. Then the team can say, ‘Hey, we’ve got an extension here. Where else you going to trade them to?
And so teams don’t prefer it that way. Now they reverse it. They do it the opposite way.”
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