Sekeres and Value: Frank Seravalli on with Matt Sekeres and Blake Value speaking about pending RFA defenseman Filip Hronek and the way the Vancouver Canucks could not need to go to wage arbitration with him this offseason and the notion that he can’t make more cash than Quinn Hughes.
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Seravalli: “I feel the comparability I made was a Corvette and a Prius. These usually are not the 2 identical issues. And by that, I imply not evaluating the type of gamers, however an RFA deal and a UFA deal are two completely various kinds of contracts within the NHL.
Sekeres: “Proper. Proper. And naturally, Quinn Hughes was nowhere close to unrestricted free company. He was purely an RFA when the Canucks re-signed him to $7.85 (million per season).
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Filip Hronek is one 12 months away from unrestricted free company the place he can be one of many rarest birds in UFA. You nearly by no means get a younger right-shot two-way, all conditions defenseman hit unrestricted free company. Through which case bonanza, proper?
What I’m thinking about is, you suppose he’s a seven and a half one million greenback man in arbitration …”
Seravali: “Yeah.”
Sekeres: “… this 12 months if it will get that. What are the comparables there, Frank? You realize, what, what brings us to that quantity in arbitration.
Seravalli: “Counting stats. 35 even-strength factors. 45 factors total. 24 minutes at evening. I imply, then return and measurement up the market and take a look at the offers which were signed. I imply, he squarely matches proper in that vary. I imply, it’s, it’s a little doubt, don’t lose any sleep. That is what the arbitrator is coming again with.
Right here’s the issue for the Canucks is they’ll’t go down the arbitration path. It’s not all actually all that completely different than Pettersson within the sense that okay, you stroll him to ARB, which walks him to UFA, you bought to commerce him earlier than the season begins since you don’t need to be going into the season saying, ‘Man, we actually must recoup property for this man who’s such an enormous a part of our crew. However we had been attempting to make the playoffs and win the Stanley Cup.’
So there’s a timeline to this and it’s, it’s actually earlier than a participant can file for ARB. That’s the deadline. That’s the similarity with Pettersson. And I feel so far, to be honest, like I’m not presenting it as something apart from, it’s been completely established order. Every little thing’s on good phrases. To my information, I feel the conversations have been preliminary and the Canucks know they should get to work on this file, however I, at the very least except one thing adjustments, I don’t suppose it’s going to occur between now and the tip of at any time when the Canucks are taking part in.
Value: “Is there too many sunk prices right here? I imply, is it a fait accompli that they must signal this participant? That they won’t commerce him for one more participant below contract saying ‘Okay, we simply can’t afford it in our cap state of affairs.’ Or once more, they only meant a lot that they don’t need to take care of a PR catastrophe or, or the rest.”
Seravalli: “I don’t, I don’t suppose it’s a fait accompli in any respect. I imply, I might say that completely different groups have completely different traces that they need to draw on the sand. If the Canucks need to stand on precept and say that is our cap construction, Quinn Hughes is our greatest defenseman and nobody is making any greater than him. Nicely, that’s fantastic. It’s simply that somebody, like as talked about with the ARB case, if that’s the ARB this 12 months, why would you’re taking lower than that …”
Value: “Going ahead.”
Seravalli: “… and signal an eight-year deal when the caps going up.”
Value: “Proper.”
Serevalli: “Prefer it is not sensible from the participant’s perspective. And so I feel the opposite a part of what you begin to get into after that’s the Canucks can be in a very robust spot attempting to commerce him as a result of then you’ve got a man that’s already finished all the heavy lifting to get near free company. All he has to do is increase his hand and say, ‘I’m not participating in any negotiate, negotiation with any crew should you require me and I’m going to market.’
All that does is completely plummet the return that the Canucks might get. They’re dealing most likely in 50 cents on the greenback and what they had been , in what they gave up a primary and a second.
And greater than that, I feel there’s actual threat for the Canucks, and albeit if we’re being honest, there’s threat for each events right here in that he’s been such a terrific match with Quinn Hughes, and a no upkeep kind participant. It’s a threat for them to then must exit and discover one other right-shot man who clearly matches. But it surely’s additionally some threat for him and that wherever he goes, yeah, he would possibly receives a commission, he would possibly make the cash, however he won’t discover a match the place he’s as necessary and precious and productive some place else.
So there’s some mutual, I don’t what do they name it the dangerous idea – Mutual Assured Destruction.”
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Serekes: “Destruction. Yeah.”
Sereavalli: “There’s, there’s a wholesome little bit of that, I feel, generally with this shifting ahead.”
