NHL Community: Elliotte Friedman thinks the New York Rangers are going to must bend on the subject of an Igor Shesterkin contract extension. He has a case to be their highest-paid participant, however by how a lot?
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EJ Hradek: “Elliott, I wish to take you proper round our space right here, the New York Rangers. There’s been a number of dialogue about, you realize, Shesterkin. He’s within the final yr of his contract. You already know…”
Friedman: “He’s? I hadn’t heard something.”
Hradek: “Yeah, you realize, we had, I had my man, Kevin Weekes right here was speaking about, like, you realize, he turned down a deal. I do know you’ve been attempting to trace this down as effectively. I imply, it’s an attention-grabbing story for certain.
What’s he going to get? Additionally, with (Alexis) Lafreniere, what’s the state of affairs there? Give us a, what are you aware about what’s taking place with the Rangers proper now, with these two gamers by way of extensions?
Friedman: “I feel this, I feel that relating to Shesterkin, I feel it’s simply, it’s the Rangers are going to must get comfy with the place he needs to go. I feel he needs to remain in New York. I feel he needs to be a Ranger. However I feel there’s a means that he and his representatives view the state of affairs. That’s, he’s one of the best Ranger, and he ought to be paid as such.
And you realize, EJ, I used to be, I discussed our pod this week, that what one man stated to me was, what he would do is, if he was the Rangers, is he’d supply them yet another greenback than (Artemi) Panarin and see if that will get it executed. And I don’t know if that’s occurred, however I believed it was an attention-grabbing thought.
I do suppose the Rangers are finally going to must bend on this one. You already know, the opposite factor too is it obtained out at first of the week final week, and Kevin had an excellent scoop. It did create some onerous emotions, I feel. Nearly the truth that that obtained out. I feel, like, there have been individuals who felt that Shesterkin was, that was, it was being made to look unhealthy. They didn’t like that.
And so I feel all people right here has type of gone again down and tried to be somewhat bit extra hermetic. However I nonetheless imagine on the finish of the day, he’s going to be a long-time Ranger, and the Rangers will simply must bend to nearer to the place he needs to go.”
