Sportsnet: Elliotte Friedman and Kyle Bukauskas on 32 Thoughts: The Podcast – The Cycle of (NHL) Life episode on the newest on Boston Bruins RFA goaltender Jeremy Swayman and Winnipeg Jets RFA forward Cole Perfetti.
** NHLRumors.com transcription
Bukauskas: “As I used to be mentioning earlier, Swayman, Perfetti, the RFA contract negotiations. Is there anything Elliotte, you prefer to so as to add to those files?
Friedman: “Truthfully, Kyle, I don’t think the weekend was big in news on either of those cases. I didn’t get the sense much movement on Swayman. So still a philosophical difference on an eight-year deal. And I don’t get the sense there’s a whole lot of willingness immediately, as of the weekend, to do a shorter term on each side.
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As for Perfetti, I didn’t get the sense much had modified on the weekend. I mean, we’ll see. I don’t think Perfetti is sort of as dug in as Swayman is. And we’ll see what happens early within the week. You realize, the Jets were on the road, they went to Edmonton. So I type of wonder if that slows every thing down a bit. We’ll see early within the week.
You realize, the one thing about Perfetti is, I all the time wonder about these sorts of things. When does everybody worry like? We talked about how polite this one was, how Perfetti went the media tour, how he participated within the charity fishing event.
Like, the one thing I all the time worry for everyone involved here, when does it turn like? When does the frustration boil over? And the way does everybody try to forestall that from happening, or work to forestall that from being an issue?
You realize what, Kyle the one thing too about Perfetti is it seems as if with every contract that’s getting signed, everyone feels there’s like a brand new comparable, right? And, you already know, I’ve talked about Pinto. Jacob Stollery, who’s debuting writing on the chats for us at Sportsnet, he talked about some lower comparables that he thought were more fair, then the Guenther contract comes up, and he’s only played 78 games. And folks like, oh, no, what does this mean?
The one thing that’s all type of jogs my memory is everybody can pick their comparable that they like. And I’ve type of stuck with Pinto, despite the fact that I do know the Jets don’t prefer it because their numbers are so similar. However it comes right down to a spot where everyone’s got to be comfortable, right? The team, the player, the agent.
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And you already know, we’re not, we’re not there yet. However the one thing I just worry about, on this case, like swimming, we’ve seen a number of the anger boil over. I just think, in case you’re Winnipeg and Perfetti, you’re like, ‘Okay, how can we prevent that from happening? Especially with a young player, you already know older players, they have an inclination to say, it’s business. I’m used to that now, younger players. The primary time you undergo it, it’s all the time harder, so the Jets have that to take care of.
