Will Connor Bedard Wait for Leo Carlsson To Extend First or Vice Versa?
Dave Pagnotta of The Fourth Period joined Sirius XM NHL Network Radio on Thursday with Steve Kouleas and Craig Button. Pagnotta was asked who would sign first: Leo Carlsson with the Anaheim Geese or Connor Bedard with the Chicago Blackhawks.
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Craig Button: “Okay, so we talked about that, and you recognize, a benchmark now’s what they only paid Jackson Lacombe. So your personal contracts that you just’ve given now turn into the most effective comparables for the way you’re going forward. Well, I’m going to ask you the elephant within the room. So who’s waiting for whom? Is Carlsson waiting for Bedard? Is Bedard waiting for Carlsson?”
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Dave Pagnotta: “Yeah, good point. I don’t, like, I feel those negotiations, I imagine, are ongoing when it comes to actually attempting to hammer something out between Chicago and Bedard. I don’t think it’s a matter really, of who’s going to be first versus second. I feel each their teams, each Chicago and Anaheim, respectively, understand the special players that they’ve got and just how much these guys are going to essentially be leading the charge for his or her clubs moving forward.
So is it, if anything, comparable with respect to simply what the ultimate number goes to be? We’ll see, type of, obviously, where that every one aspects in. But I don’t think this can be a scenario where, like, all the fellows that were pending UFAs or eligible to turn into UFAs were next summer. We’re waiting on (Kirill) Kaprizov to essentially get the ball rolling. I don’t think it’s a matter of that. I don’t think that has much of an impact on these guys.
Simply because each are at the highest of the league in points, they each mean rather a lot to their teams. They’re coming out of their ELC, they’re going to be on this league for a very long time, and presumably stars for a very long time. Each are going to get, I might imagine, a reasonably hefty contracts and pretty deserving ones. And it looks as if their teams are greater than comfortable with dishing that out.”
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