TSN: Pierre LeBrun on with Jay Onrait speaking about how fascinating the Igor Shesterkin – New York Rangers scenario is. Shesterkin goes to receives a commission and grow to be the highest-paid goaltender in NHL historical past, however how excessive are the Rangers prepared to go?
** NHLRumors.com transcription
“This Skesterkin negotiation is without doubt one of the most fascinating in years for me. And you recognize, I delved into my piece in The Athletic and the reason being, the goaltending place has been underneath duress financially, and in some methods philosophically, from NHL entrance places of work over the past a number of years.
You already know, it began with the game science of you recognize, primary goalie, you shouldn’t play greater than 55 or 58 video games, proper? And now there’s extra of a sharing of the online. After which there’s a faculty of thought from plenty of entrance places of work that say that the goaltending place in in the present day’s sport is probably the most troublesome to foretell, a repeatable final result. A repeatable efficiency. That the goalie performances come out and in, and so that you shouldn’t allocate fairly as many cap {dollars} to that place.
Who has extra leverage: Jeremy Swayman or the Boston Bruins?
And hear, you’ll be able to definitely make an argument for lots of these issues, however Igor Skesterkin and his brokers are saying .928 profession playoff state share, 28 years previous, UFA in a 12 months, no matter. They’re going for it, they usually’re going to get it. And the query is whether or not they’re going to get it with the Rangers or elsewhere.
However there’s little doubt in my thoughts he’s going to be a double-digit paid goalie. There hasn’t been one since Sergei Bobrovsky received his $10 million a 12 months. Carey Value has the all-time document at 10 and a half million a 12 months.
And the Rangers have communicated, our understanding is to Skesterkin and his camp that they’re prepared to pay greater than that 10 and a half million for Carey Value.
So why isn’t it completed as we communicate? And I can inform you that I checked in with it once more, you recognize, on Wednesday night, and it was established order in that negotiation.
So what’s the quantity that ends this when it comes to getting an extension in entrance of the, what most individuals imagine is the perfect goalie on this planet? Is it 11 and a half (million)? Is it 12? Is it 12 and a half? Is it extra and at what level do the Rangers assume it’s simply an excessive amount of?
Jeremy Swayman and Igor Shesterkin Might Lastly Get NHL Goalie Their Honest Share
Exhausting to say. But it surely’s fascinating as a result of this isn’t simply in regards to the New York Rangers and their celebrity goalie, I believe it’s in regards to the goalie place. Generally, it’s the goalies, I believe it’s historic in making an attempt to place the goalies again on monitor financially.”