Donnie & Dhali: Elliotte Friedman on the Donnie & Dhali present speaking concerning the Vancouver Canucks and their pending UFAs and RFAs, however primarily Elias Lindholm.
** NHLRumors.com transcription
Dhaliwal: “Elliotte, boy-oh-boy, the Canucks bought plenty of free brokers. As much as 9 which might be UFA or RFAs. Which of them do you count on them to get executed and which of them are going to be robust contracts to get executed in your eyes?
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Friedman: “I might say, Rick, I used to be really occupied with this lots this morning. I, I believe this, I believe they’re gonna take runs at a few of the guys that you just don’t suppose that you just count on they’re gonna be capable to hold and that doesn’t essentially imply they’re gonna be capable to hold them.
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I might count on them to speak to (Elias) Lindholm and simply say, ‘appear like what’s this going to take? Give us give us an inexpensive ballpark of what it will probably take.’ You recognize, I believe they know precisely what’s (Nikita) Zadorov’s searching for.
You recognize, I believe they, I believe there’s, I believe they’re going to attempt to make selections. And I don’t know if Lindholm goes to be doable. I might guess it’s in all probability not doable. However for those who have been to say to me this morning, who’s the primary man that the Canucks would attempt to re-sign? I might say it’s in all probability him. So I believe what they’ll do is that they’ll at the least ask and say, ‘look, what do we have now to do right here?’
And the opposite factor that Jim Rutherford and Patrik Allvin have taught us is to count on the sudden. You recognize, it’s straightforward to say ‘We will’t do that. We will’t do that.’ What number of occasions over the past yr have we appeared on the Canucks and mentioned ‘they will’t do one thing’ and Allvin and Rutherford, both attempt one thing completely different or they do one thing completely different.
And that doesn’t essentially imply to me, they’re going to have the ability to do various things. however I’ve discovered to count on from this challenge, from this group of Canucks entrance workplace, they’ll attempt to do issues otherwise.
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So I believe they will attempt to do some issues that we don’t count on. To maintain some gamers. I’m not saying they’re going to achieve success however I believe they’re gonna attempt. And I do suppose they’re going to attempt to hold Lindholm, I simply, I simply don’t know that it’s going to be doable.”
