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At Brady Tkachuk's introductory to the team, Bill Zito is asked where things stand with Florida Panthers Goalie Sergei Bobrovsky. The guys quibble about the situation regarding Sergei's health, contract and the Panthers' next moves within the next 2-3 years.
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00:00the texter says everyone else took discounts why shouldn't bob i think the one that probably
00:07irked him march the march and deal because march and's age he got a lot of years
00:13and got 30 million guaranteed basically and i think bob's like hey man this dude's been here
00:20for two seconds great year but got locked in and while awesome
00:27is more replaceable than what we have around you know with what with what i provide
00:34and i think that probably put it into a place where you believed in his age but you don't believe
00:41in mine so i don't know people like i'm i was listening to a lot of the hockey shows yesterday
00:47because i'm obsessed with this that they're like listen goalie just age is different than a wing
00:51it just does but i i i just don't think people appreciate like right i know people don't
00:58appreciate like the the mentality that this guy has i'm not saying he's right or wrong i'm just
01:04telling you what the guy thinks of himself and his work ethic that he's gonna say oh you guys don't
01:10think i can be good for four more years watch this and we'll see okay but but the time is
01:16undefeated
01:17and i would say this athletes that i probably would was just as responsible as anyone else
01:26want you to pay them on what they've done for you right a team is paying you on what they
01:35think you
01:36can do so when you think about bob and the money that he wants the team has to weigh that
01:49against
01:50that position that age and us not being able to do anything else if we do this
02:00so i'm not mad at bob for wanting all that money somebody told him he was worth it
02:09i'm not mad at the panthers for pausing well i think it's i think he looks at it i think
02:13he looks
02:13at somebody like he's like look you could look at igor shesterkin and you could say like if it's true
02:18with dave hyde's reporting i have no reason to believe it's not that he's like well i've beaten
02:23igor shesterkin in the playoffs i don't care that he's 10 years younger than me okay then fine then
02:27you listen you can have those beliefs and you can believe that that's not the way teams think
02:34right like a guy who's 10 years younger than you
02:41even though you've beaten him yeah is that's not why you pay him it's being all the time you pay
02:47him
02:48because you want five more years he could you could basically go through this top list and be a hit
02:51list
02:52for him was no not was is okay okay it's like okay i'm never gonna i'm never gonna get you
02:59to
02:59understand this that part of that right like i'm never going and and if you were a gm you would
03:10be
03:10stuck with more old guys on your roster that you paid because of what they've done and not what they
03:17can do i mean i guess the thought is like how bad do you think he's gonna fall off a
03:23cliff in two
03:23years and a team's job is to not put yourself in a situation where you're well they did put
03:32themselves in the situation because they traded spencer knight yeah but that was what was it last
03:37year or two years two years ago two years ago yeah okay so they say okay in two years so
03:43one year
03:43one year where everybody's hurt besides this guy's no good anymore you know what i mean no way i just
03:48think i think that you you you keep saying that please don't say that i'm not saying bob can't
03:54play i didn't say i'm saying i didn't say what i'm saying i'm not saying that's your take i'm talking
03:58about the panthers mindset the way you're taking that just because they don't want to pay him for
04:02the next three or four years i didn't say that was your opinion i said the team's opinion but of
04:07the
04:07reason they made the move for spencer knight was because they believed bob was going to age
04:11into his late 30s and early 40s that's why they traded spencer knight for seth jones they said that
04:19and if you're going to judge that off of a year where everybody was hurt on your team to me
04:24that is
04:26a miscalculation it's not that though why like it's not that it's that hey when you start putting
04:36your team together and you start thinking about oh you just brought in brady oh you just did this oh
04:40you you trade like you have to make moves that are going to be consistent with where you're going
04:47to be in the next two or three years and if they decide okay how long do we want to
04:55be in this bob
04:56contract okay we can be with them for two years maybe they make that determination two years right
05:01they say okay let's offer him something then bob says i want three years 14 million how do you
05:07respond to that what could you come back with yeah you're gonna find a little ground man huh
05:11there's no middle ground from the highest nobody's paying him as the highest i know
05:16like so do we could go to galen right now and i say i want 14 million to the next
05:21show he's like
05:21okay cool so my question to you is do you even start negotiating when that side is so unrealistic
05:29that's my point this has nothing that this contract discussion has nothing to do with
05:40what they think bob can or can't do but if the first ask is to be the highest goalie
05:48in the highest paid goalie in the league at 14 million a year for three years we don't know that
05:53was the first ask we know that was the asses off season like okay bob could have wanted a deal
05:57last
05:57year done and they didn't want to do it then okay all right i got you so then he's like
06:02oh i'm a free
06:02agent that's what i'm asking for all right and so they say like okay maybe that had something to do
06:08with it that at what point or you can't have reasonable talks when somebody's being unreasonable
06:15bob should not be the highest paid goalie in the league who should be i don't know not bob you
06:20you're you're misconstruing the best with the highest paid bob is how 38 yep we'll be 38 he'll be 38
06:30you want to be the team that pays three million three years 14 million a year for 38-year-old
06:36goalie
06:36not strong but i think okay but i think that i think that there could be also you know i
06:43don't think
06:43it's a negotiation that should be dead like i wouldn't i wouldn't just end negotiations because bob
06:47asked for a uh a ridiculous amount yeah because then you're as a gm you're like okay what do you
06:53think you could actually find out there right but that's that's that's my point so we don't know if
06:57it's dead but as a team when somebody asks for that you i'll tell you this if they don't have
07:05them this year i'm still i'm nervous about their chances i don't care how low to their team is okay
07:09i don't care if they get heli book i don't care like it's you're going into it with
07:13can those guys so you think of all the guys they could bring in bob would have the best year
07:16so yeah regardless he's bar none the guy i would trust the most why would it because you've been
07:21with him yeah but he's also proven it okay
07:28what you have done is not the same as what you will do i don't like that's sports i don't
07:35know i can't
07:35that teams have to think what will you if i told you the stanley cup was tomorrow
07:41okay that's not even realistic you're making up i'm not making up i'm telling you tomorrow
07:47the stanley cup's tomorrow right do you want sergey bobrovsky and you got to pay him 10 mil a year
07:52or you want alex lion i don't i would take sergio because i'm familiar with him who's sergio i mean
08:00is that his latino cousin great bakery sergio bobrovsky
08:13i don't even know why look i'm not even reading there's nothing like i don't know what i was
08:18thinking about you're too into the world cup dude no i'm not even looking at the world cup
08:22is that portugal's uh goalie no that's wild take a break random sergio we're back up
08:28if the if the who ask a question like that
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