00:00i wanted to get to this because i'm very fearful of this this summer sergey babarovsky i don't want
00:04to lose him and you know people have called me crazy they're like you're crazy dude he's not
00:11leaving and now all of a sudden the people who called me crazy i'm starting to hear from them
00:15like now they're all of a sudden sweating it because they're hearing it from other people
00:20and there's other reports out there from legit people uh in the hockey landscape that say yeah
00:27this could be the end and i'm scared i'm scared i don't i don't mince words about that i don't
00:32want
00:32to lose him i love bob so this was from the hockey news uh from julian uh gaudio who said
00:44uh who wrote
00:45up a piece about sergey babarovsky's pending uh unrestricted free agency uh between the current
00:51two parties is quote pretty bad and he's taking this from a podcast appearance by greg washinski
00:58who is on uh his show and says that the two part the situation between the two parties is quote
01:04pretty bad and the panthers may decide to go in a different direction now uh the panthers did address
01:11this last week they said you know that they're going to try and get this all done and whatnot bark
01:15off
01:15uh last week this is what he had to say on sergey being a free agent there's not a single
01:21person in
01:22south florida who wants him gone from here he's uh he's a loft teammate everyone loves him uh loves to
01:30play in front of him loves to battle for him loves seeing him every single day at the ring so
01:35uh it's
01:37tough to even imagine that there's a there could be a chance to to see him go so of course
01:42same boat as
01:43chucky and same boat as every single guy in this organization and uh around this organization
01:49everyone wants him to stay and he's a big piece of what we've done here uh on ice and off
01:56the ice so
01:58we i'm sure everyone's doing everything possible to to make him stay well here's the thing that's
02:06thrown a little wrinkle into this that i don't like it was not happy about this do tell
02:11uh so connor helibook of course gold medal winner goaltender did a great job for america you know
02:21he's not happy with the winnipeg jets he's very upset he he basically had this press conference
02:27last week where he was asked about his future he took like this really long pause about his future
02:32with the jets and uh you know kind of threw it up in the air that he doesn't love it
02:37there
02:45you know i don't want to i don't want to go and leave any speculation um
02:54you know i i love this city and i love playing here and the fans have given me so much
02:59i've given
02:59so much back to the fans and you know there's a there's a real connection there i wish i wish
03:05more
03:05people around the league would see that and could see that um am i going to go and tell you
03:10that
03:12right now i feel amazing about winning a cup tomorrow like no no team out of playoffs is going
03:17to say that no player out of playoffs is going to say that but you know you know you make
03:22your decisions
03:23and and you live by them and you know time as time goes by you you try to reevaluate and
03:30and then honestly as an athlete the only thing you can do is put your best foot forward you know
03:34you
03:34make your decision and put your best foot forward and you know that's that's where my head's at right
03:38now is i have a nice long summer ahead of me and you know i'm going to get some recovery
03:43some much
03:44needed recovery i've played a lot in these recent months and i'm going to really focus on my game and
03:49really break it break it down and and see where i can uh improve some things and you know and
03:56being one of the best in the world is something i've always took a stride for and
04:01i want the summer to take another big step forward for that
04:05oh well if you're a jets fan you're probably not feeling great about that
04:08and here's the thing that i don't like okay okay there's a lot of floozy cat fans out there right
04:13now
04:14throwing their garments at connor helibook and saying connor come down here and replace
04:20sergey bobrovsky and i don't like it i don't like it my whole plan with helibook was he was going
04:26to
04:26come here when he was bob's age after bob was long gone and and up against road i'm not having
04:30to
04:31replace bob now i'm not for that so i'm not ready to have helibook replace bob i want bob here
04:37so question these things happen yeah i don't like it i mean but
04:46aren't there people that get paid a whole lot more money than you to figure these things out
04:54what you don't have to like it yeah what do you trust that the gm's going to do what's best
04:59for
05:00the pain i don't think that's the best for the panthers uh first of all but i
05:02connor helibook not for nothing hold on hold on connor helibook up until winning this gold medal
05:08okay where he has you know one of the best teams in the world in front of him the guy
05:13has been known
05:15notorious playoff choker his entire career now he doesn't make the playoffs he wants to make a stink
05:22hightail it and run it doesn't sit well with me that sergey bobrovsky is being looked upon as some
05:28albatross and panthers problem when everybody got taken care of on this cup run did everybody enjoy
05:34the cups did everybody enjoy the cups and now all of a sudden you got some some new goalie batting
05:42his
05:42eyelashes down south because he wants to leave canada and you want bob gone i don't like it i think
05:48any
05:49panthers fan that feels that way right now should be ashamed of themselves i don't like it that guy is
05:55a champion a legend and now everybody's like oh well if bob leaves we can get connor i don't like
06:01that leroy i'm not a fan of it why because he's a few years younger i mean
06:11do you trust i don't trust that decision no if that's your question no i don't trust that decision
06:16i think it's a bad has he earned it no has he earned not more than bob has
06:23all right there's nothing that like you go ahead and do you thank you i will do i don't think
06:31that
06:34f your feelings trying to win yeah but hold on you're trying to win with somebody who's not done
06:41it he hasn't done it okay i i i understand that but in most that's like it's getting in most
06:49in most
06:50situations like this what the organization is trying to decide is how long can we get bob for
07:00what is it going to cost and can we get what's our alternatives like because again somebody could
07:08come off for a ridiculous amount of money and it might not even matter yeah this yeah it may not
07:12matter but the thing is is that you should have taken care of him in the first place so nobody
07:15could have done that i mean that's already a big mistake by bill zito like here's the thing i don't
07:18want anybody to get distracted like bill zito's done a marvelous job but you're not without question
07:22like it doesn't get you don't get to be that way sorry not with me that's not how it gets
07:26to go
07:27but i trust his track record okay you you trust his track record even though you're going to
07:32go and get a notorious playoff choker for a guy who's a two-time champion
07:36why would you trust that okay the record is the record i would trust him making that decision
07:42over you having feelings for bob but it's but a feel it's feelings backed up with results okay all right
07:51i'm just like like i think i'm not and and this has nothing to do with bob yeah but here's
07:57why your
07:58logic is flawed on this why because you're going to sit here and say well why don't you trust bill
08:01zito well then why would you trust conor helibrook he hasn't done it but but why would you trust him
08:07but again before here there was a point in time where everybody thought what you think of helibrook
08:13they thought that bob yeah but they were allowed wrong and i was right he hadn't won anything either
08:18i was right though you do you realize there was a time never won anything but i always wanted to
08:24do this
08:24so can you repeat what i say bob so let me let me explain something to you
08:45your thoughts about is helibrock helibrook helibrook i don't know sorry um
08:54it was the same feelings a lot of people have for bob when
08:59before they went on their run because he was struggling right so yeah but you don't kick your
09:06legends out the door no no it's not the point it is the same conversation we are having now that
09:13you're trying to have is the same conversations everybody had with bob and what did you say back
09:21then i said you guys are allowed wrong it's not his fault he's going to win a championship
09:24okay but he hadn't won so we could use your logic right here no what's the difference because you
09:31either got the no no no no no what's the difference you either got the stuff and you don't they
09:36but
09:37they took the same leap of faith with bob who had never won yeah but bob had beaten he had
09:43slayed giants in the playoffs before like it's not a it's not a good it's not a good but he
09:46hadn't
09:46won a championship he had but but on a lesser team slayed the tampa bay lightning but won the president's
09:52trophy so again your logic is flawed kind sir if you're saying that helibrook didn't win anything
10:04right and i think and i've and has stunk before the panthers went on this run there were more people
10:13saying that about bob yeah but those people are idiots they should listen to me the whole time
10:19just like they should listen to me now all right that's okay it's hard having listen no hard feelings
10:26yeah okay but you're you're this is terrible all right see where you stand this is what you wanted
10:33all the time no back when you were just for go bob i just asked you a question when he
10:37was for go
10:38bob and everybody wanted him out of here only you call and bill zito stuck with him stuck with him
10:45i mean saved him saved made bill zito's legacy who was bill zito before sergey barofsky
10:56disappointed i can't believe you're on team helibrook i'm not i'm not i'm just merely saying
11:01that bob was in the same boat as him no before they started going before they started going to
11:07the fight yes he was shame it's a shame people were saying what you're saying right now is the
11:13same things people you think you're just plugging how do you just forget how do i forget how do you
11:17forget how do you forget you're forgetting greatness you're forgetting i'm not when we
11:21were down no i'm not when we need when we needed to win it when all the chips were on
11:25the table who
11:26do you go to you're going to ask you a question i can speak for myself sure i don't need
11:31you speaking
11:32for me right i never said any of the crap you're talking about right now but i did say
11:41what you're saying about helibook is the same stuff that everybody was saying about bob
11:46before they went on this run because he hadn't won dude i'm gonna i'm gonna just tell you i've
11:53already given you uh giving you uh reasons why not and i think you're being a little ridiculous on
11:58this that's okay not wrong you are though how am i wrong when the exact conversation they're not the
12:05exact same conversations so wait people weren't having conversations about bob that you're having
12:12right now about helibook that people want him out the door yeah no that's not the same because
12:16because winnipeg doesn't winnipeg doesn't want him out the door i asked you if people were having the
12:21same conversations about bob that you're saying right now about heli book about not winning not
12:27being an apples to apples argument it's not a grown-up conversation because you're talking about getting
12:32rid of somebody who's already proven it in the face of somebody who has it but the person who was
12:36here
12:36beforehand bob's replacing because the reason he got the money is because they wanted him to come here and do
12:42it
12:43there's no there's nobody replacing it would be like going out there it would be like the next
12:48guy it would be like sergey babrovsky replacing vasileski in tampa bay because they thought
12:53vasileski was washed it's not the same you already have a guy and you should take care of him it's
13:00not the same
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