Sportsnet: Elliotte Friedman and Jeff Marek of 32 Thoughts: The Podcast – The Attrition Is Attending to Edmonton episode on the Carolina Hurricanes having to make some big decisions here pretty quickly.
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Marek: “Okay, so then here becomes the situation with Eric Tulsky. His big decisions for the Carolina Hurricanes. We’ve talked so much about Martin Necas. We’ve talked so much about, oh, take a look before a CapFriendly disappears, and we’ll speak about that in a while, at what number of defensemen, they’d, they don’t have sign for next season.
Like there’s plenty of decisions here that Tulsky has to face. Like, do you have got a pecking order for any of it? Do you have got a kind of like, let’s do Carolina Hurricanes triage here. Okay, this is that this is Tulsky, Tulsky triage. Your Eric Tulsky, which, which patient do you see first?
Friedman: “Well, I feel you have got to check out the, I feel what they checked out it as Jeff was, they should take care of the UFAs first. And I feel they were (Brett) Pesce, (Brady) Skjei, (Jalen) Chatfield, all those guys.
Like they realize they should get business done pretty quickly. And I feel they were getting around to it. And I feel they were form of holding on the Necas a little bit bit, but I heard that over the weekend, that the Necas stuff form of jumped off a bit more.
I heard that you recognize, a pair of men were telling me that, I feel initially Carolina checked out it like, worst got here to worst they may bring Necas back next yr. I feel that’s feeling is form of slipped away. I feel there’s an understanding that, well Necas hasn’t said anything publicly, privately, I feel he’s made it pretty clear that he’d wish to move on.
In order that’s, now they still have a while because they probably don’t have to try this until the draft in the event that they don’t wish to, by way of, you recognize what they could get out of it. But, you recognize, a pair of men told me that they think that Carolina has either indicated to groups, you have got what we’d like you we would like, otherwise you don’t have what we would like.
And what some teams told me is that they’re wondering if there’s going to be a few of those teams that were initially told by Carolina, you don’t have what we would like, can they do a three-way deal and were attempt to get what Carolina wants in the event that they want Necas?
So I just do think that that picked up a little bit on the weekend.”
Marek: “Interesting time ahead for the Carolina Hurricanes. Jump right into it Eric Tulsky, there’s no dipping your toe into the into the water here, you’re going off the diving tower.”
