NHL Community: Elliotte Friedman on NHL Tonight on Calgary Flames defenseman Noah Hanifin and his most popular vacation spot.
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EJ Hradek: “Elliotte, let me ask you about Vegas and Tampa as a result of they’re each groups, groups which have received the Stanley Cup in latest occasions. In fact Vegas received it final 12 months. They’ve some house, LTIR smart. I’d think about with (Mikhail) Sergachev in Tampa and Stone in Vegas.
So what are you listening to when it comes to these two groups? I determine it’s gonna be actually onerous for Tampa simply because they don’t have something to commerce actually having moved plenty of picks during the last a number of years. What are you listening to in these two spots?
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Friedman: “Properly, to begin with in Tampa, I, there, there positively is a sense that that’s Noah Hanifin is most popular vacation spot is Tampa Bay. And as you mentioned with Sergachev being out for a very long time, they’ve the power to do it.
However you hit on the massive downside there. I maintain taking a look at it and I maintain saying, you realize, what’s the commerce right here? If you happen to have a look at the offers that Calgary has already made with Tanev with, with Lindholm with, for instance, Tyler Toffoli again in the summertime. There was at the least a prospect that they actually favored or younger participant who’s come again in these conditions.
And I search for and down the Tampa roster and so they’ve acquired a extremely good younger prospect. Their first-rounder, the fantastically dressed Isaac Howard however aside from that, I don’t know what Tampa Bay has that may curiosity Calgary. They don’t have a lot draft capital. So I feel if that was a commerce that couldn’t be made, it in all probability can be carried out already.
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I feel the Flames and Hanifin are a bit in a little bit of a standoff and I feel it’s gonna come right down to, (a) is there a wider group of groups that he’s prepared to speak to? Is Calgary prepared to permit him to debate an extension or do the Flames merely say, ‘Look, we’re simply going to take the very best deal and you’ll kind it out in the summertime.’ And we’ve acquired just a few days nonetheless to determine that out.
