Kypreos nicely explains how tricky Jason Robertson’s contract situation really is
Sportsnet 590 The FAN: Nick Kypreos lays out the Jason Robertson situation and the way signing a one-year arbitration may make essentially the most sense for him if he wants protection from being traded. It’s a extremely tricky situation.
** NHLRumors.com transcription
Kypreos: “It looks like Jason Robertson’s best case scenario could also be simply to sign an arbitration contract at one 12 months.”
Sam McKee: “No.”
Justin Bourne: “That’s mental.”
McKee: “Dangerous.”
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Bourne: “Like Dallas, Dallas probably offering him eight by $12 (million), right?”
Kyreos: “Yes.”
Bourne: “Seven by 12 now?”
Kypreos: “No, no. Eight by 12. You’re right, and that was, I suppose, two months ago.”
Bourne: “Right.”
Kypreos: “And Seattle offered him perhaps $130 (million). I believe. I believe it was 15.5, yeah. 15.6.”
Bourne: “That Klingberg deal …”
McKee: “I used to be nearly to say he should …”
Bourne: “… stands out to me.”
McKee: “He was truthfully like he should call John Klingberg and seek advice from John Klingberg.”
Bourne: “Yeah. Who’s a free agent by the best way.”
Kypreos: “So here’s, here’s where it’s sort of unique, because this doesn’t really occur. Because very seldom will we see players in Jason Robertson’s position, where you’re sort of a free agent, but you’re not a free agent. You bought this one-year window where you’re a restricted free agent.”
And that one 12 months is absolutely screwing things up, because if Dallas moves off of their 12 million from a couple of months ago, and goes to 13. You possibly can sit there and go, okay, that that 13 is absolutely like 15 someplace else.”
Bourne: “Yeah.”
Kypreos: “Right. And that’s okay. But when I sign it and it’s an eight 12 months deal prior to last night, it’s great, but what I can’t sign on that eight 12 months deal at $13 million is next season’s trade protection. So I can comply with Dallas’s 13 times eight, after which Jim Neil the subsequent day could trade me to Seattle and my contract goes to 13 Seattle after I turned down 15.5 and I’m leaving $30 million on the table and I looked like a donkey.”
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Bourne: “He can’t get trade protection at his age as an RFA.”
Kypreos: “Can’t get trade protection.”
Bourne: “Not there yet.”
Kypreos: “Right.”
McKee: “That’s …”
Bourne: “So immediately. How does he have protection?”
Kypreos: “Yeah, he doesn’t have protection, he has zero protection.”
Bourne: “Oh, he’s just saying he won’t sign an extension.”
Kypreos: “Won’t sign extension. So you’ll be able to now trade my rights to anywhere you wish, they usually can sign me to a seven-year deal and still have the power to trade me in the event that they’re not completely satisfied by Christmas or January, February, and now it’s identical to, Who do you trust?”
McKee: “That’s a dangerous game, brother.”
Kypreos: “So that you’re in, you’re inside 12 months of controlling your destiny with money and a no-move clause, but for those who, for those who, for those who get traded, otherwise you check in Dallas, you, you don’t have total control of your destiny for the subsequent seven years.”
Bourne: “I’ll let you know, the way you get a no-trade clause, you’ll be able to sign a suggestion sheet, one-year, they will’t trade you in the event that they match the offer sheet. So, if he got a suggestion from someplace else immediately as an RFA, you may sign it, Dallas could match, he couldn’t be traded for a 12 months.”
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Kypreos: “No, they won’t match.”
Bourne: “They won’t match? They’ll take, they’ll take 4 first.”
Kypreos: “They’ll take 4 first. But who’s doing that? And who has the 4 picks? It gets slightly tricky, and really, you’re probably ready to say, ‘Well, like, in the event that they’re first rounders, man, just sign them next summer.’ So it’s tricky now.”
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