NHL Rumors: The Newest on New York Rangers pending UFA goaltender Igor Shesterkin

Sportsnet: Elliotte Friedman and Kyle Bukauskas on the 32 Ideas: The Podcast – Stay From L.A. It’s 32 Ideas episode, on the most recent on the New York Rangers and pending UFA goaltender Igor Shesterkin.

** NHLRumors.com transcription

Friedman: “And you already know, we must always speak about Shesterkin a little bit bit too, as a result of it’s been a giant subject this week. We touched on it final week, that once more, I imagine that one of many causes they’ve informed (Jacob) Trouba this will likely be it, is as a result of they’ve acquired some huge extensions to do.

You already know Shesterkin, I believe they’re going to signal him. I do. I, to me this complete, the whole lot that’s come out this week is all in regards to the Rangers saying there’s no have to panic right here. We’re signing this participant. We’re making him the highest-paid goaltender within the NHL. We acknowledge his significance to us. We all know he’s the spine of this staff. And we’re signing this participant.

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That is now all in regards to the quantity. And, you already know, I don’t know what this quantity goes to be. There’s been plenty of reporting it’s going to be $12 (million), $12.5, $11.5.

Finally, the one benefit the Rangers have is that they have the eighth 12 months.”

Bukauskas: “Proper.”

Friedman: “So if Shesterkin doesn’t signal there, he’s going to lose a 12 months at a really huge quantity. That’s the one factor the Rangers have of their energy.”

However to me, and this week, the whole lot that’s come out this week proves it. They’re signing it. They’re signing it. It’s only a matter of what that quantity goes to be.”

Bukauskas: “As a result of should you’re the Rangers, you’ve acquired to suppose you’ve acquired an opportunity of successful once more this 12 months, as a result of, and with that, not wanting any distraction past what a little bit, what you may’t management, has acquired to be an enormous precedence for you, too. To maintain the concentrate on the ice due to what they imagine this staff is potential, is doubtlessly able to doing.”

Friedman: “I don’t suppose he’d be bothered by it. I imply, you’re proper. Like, to me, it’s harder should you’re in Canada, like, although New York is the most important media market in North America and one of many largest on the planet, I don’t suppose a participant like Shesterkin, who, you already know, he’s not a kind of guys who talks daily. He’s not a kind of guys who performs daily, although he performs a ton. And, you already know, if it was Aaron Decide, it will be in every single place daily. It’s not fairly that for Shesterkin within the States, as it will be if he performed in Canada.

I don’t suppose he’s going to be a man I might be confirmed to be completely fallacious. I don’t suppose he’s a man that’s going to be bothered by this and I and you already know, The opposite factor too is, I all the time keep in mind (Sergei) Bobrovsky, his first huge deal in Columbus he informed them he wasn’t going to speak through the season, after which he signed a giant extension, like in December.

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So I all the time suppose {that a} staff can go to an agent and say, ‘Look, I do know you mentioned you received’t speak to us through the 12 months, however we predict we will get this performed now.’ And so, I believe in Shesterkin’s head, the agent may inform us, Shesterkin, we’re not speaking through the 12 months, go focus, and you may say, all proper. That doesn’t imply the staff can’t go, after which the agent can come to the participant later and say, guess what, ‘The staff’s able to make a deal’ after which the participant will do it. So I all the time do not forget that Columbus-Bobrovsky factor.

However once more to me. This complete state of affairs reeks of the Rangers are doing this, it’s only a matter of what the quantity is.”