Sportsnet: Elliotte Friedman and Kyle Bukauskas on the 32 Thoughts: The Podcast – A Bevy of Extensions as Training Camps Begin episode on Winnipeg Jets RFA forward Cole Perfetti still with no contract. The Jets may not agree with on comparable that has been floated on the market.
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Friedman: “You already know, Perfetti. It was, it was interesting. We had talked about how, I believe lots of agents and teams type of checked out it and said that (Shane) Pinto was the, was the, was the, was the player comparable.
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Not the team comparable. The team would probably need to avoid that. But Pinto was type of the agent comparable for, and the player comparable, for Perfetti because they’ve played the identical variety of games. They’ve principally got the identical variety of points, and he just got that two yr extension from Ottawa within the fives.
You already know, the Jets type of indicated , they don’t see it the identical way. And I get that, like, if I used to be a team and I didn’t like that contract, I might say, No, no, we’re not going there, we’re doing this one.
The one thing about Pinto is, I saw someone mention that Pinto was arbitration eligible. He wasn’t. He didn’t reach the thresholds of being arbitration eligible. So that you type of must put that one away.
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But I still understand what the team is attempting to do here. I’m unsure everyone’s going to see it the identical way, but I understand why the Jets are saying that. They don’t like that Pinto contract. They don’t need to go there for a Perfetti. So their Point is saying, no, no, we don’t see it the identical way. Again, there’s still a spot, and we’ll see where this goes.
