{"id":360539,"date":"2026-07-03T22:40:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T17:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=360539"},"modified":"2026-07-03T22:40:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T17:10:39","slug":"jason-robertsons-contract-situation-is-really-tricky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/07\/03\/jason-robertsons-contract-situation-is-really-tricky\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Robertson’s Contract Situation is Really Tricky"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kypreos nicely explains how tricky Jason Robertson\u2019s contract situation really is<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Sportsnet 590 The FAN<\/b><\/a>: 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\u2019s a extremely tricky situation.<\/p>\n

** NHLRumors.com transcription<\/em><\/p>\n

Kypreos: \u201cIt looks like Jason Robertson\u2019s best case scenario could also be simply to sign an arbitration contract at one 12 months.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sam McKee: \u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n

Justin Bourne: \u201cThat\u2019s mental.\u201d<\/p>\n

McKee: \u201cDangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Bourne: \u201cLike Dallas, Dallas probably offering him eight by $12 (million), right?\u201d<\/p>\n

Kyreos: \u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bourne: \u201cSeven by 12 now?\u201d<\/p>\n

Kypreos: \u201cNo, no. Eight by 12. You\u2019re right, and that was, I suppose, two months ago.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bourne: \u201cRight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kypreos: \u201cAnd Seattle offered him perhaps $130 (million). I believe. I believe it was 15.5, yeah. 15.6.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bourne: \u201cThat Klingberg deal \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

McKee: \u201cI used to be nearly to say he should \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Bourne: \u201c\u2026 stands out to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

McKee: \u201cHe was truthfully like he should call John Klingberg and seek advice from John Klingberg.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bourne: \u201cYeah. Who\u2019s a free agent by the best way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kypreos: \u201cSo here\u2019s, here\u2019s where it\u2019s sort of unique, because this doesn\u2019t really occur. Because very seldom will we see players in Jason Robertson\u2019s position, where you\u2019re sort of a free agent, but you\u2019re not a free agent. You bought this one-year window where you\u2019re a restricted free agent.\u201d<\/p>\n

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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bourne: \u201cYeah.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kypreos: \u201cRight. And that\u2019s okay. But when I sign it and it\u2019s an eight 12 months deal prior to last night, it\u2019s great, but what I can\u2019t sign on that eight 12 months deal at $13 million is next season\u2019s trade protection. So I can comply with Dallas\u2019s 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\u2019m leaving $30 million on the table and I looked like a donkey.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Bourne: \u201cHe can\u2019t get trade protection at his age as an RFA.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kypreos: \u201cCan\u2019t get trade protection.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bourne: \u201cNot there yet.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kypreos: \u201cRight.\u201d<\/p>\n

McKee: \u201cThat\u2019s \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Bourne: \u201cSo immediately. How does he have protection?\u201d<\/p>\n

Kypreos: \u201cYeah, he doesn\u2019t have protection, he has zero protection.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bourne: \u201cOh, he\u2019s just saying he won\u2019t sign an extension.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kypreos: \u201cWon\u2019t 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\u2019re not completely satisfied by Christmas or January, February, and now it\u2019s identical to, Who do you trust?\u201d<\/p>\n

McKee: \u201cThat\u2019s a dangerous game, brother.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kypreos: \u201cSo that you\u2019re in, you\u2019re 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\u2019t have total control of your destiny for the subsequent seven years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bourne: \u201cI\u2019ll let you know, the way you get a no-trade clause, you’ll be able to sign a suggestion sheet, one-year, they will\u2019t 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\u2019t be traded for a 12 months.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Kypreos: \u201cNo, they won\u2019t match.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bourne: \u201cThey won\u2019t match? They\u2019ll take, they\u2019ll take 4 first.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kypreos: \u201cThey\u2019ll take 4 first. But who\u2019s doing that? And who has the 4 picks? It gets slightly tricky, and really, you\u2019re probably ready to say, \u2018Well, like, in the event that they\u2019re first rounders, man, just sign them next summer.\u2019 So it\u2019s tricky now.\u201d<\/p>\n

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