00:00uh sergey babrovsky he is on the toronto maple leafs and uh you cried didn't you oh dude it was
00:07not good i think i didn't cry vlad but i was heartbroken i think that's all right if you
00:12cry i think his first game back here i might cry though you know when he gets the tribute
00:20anyway this is what he had to say when uh asked about the whole ordeal and uh and then uh
00:27started
00:27thanking the panthers well first of all uh i'm excited for the opportunity it's uh to be honest
00:37i thought i'm gonna stay in florida and uh yeah but the the things work out like how how they
00:44work
00:44out and the the leaves the leaves uh put their trust in me you know they put their belief and
00:51they they gave me good good opportunity to join the historical legendary team and be part of this
00:58organization taking the moment too i would i would like to to use this opportunity to thank florida
01:05panthers organization it's been it's been amazing amazing uh seven years for me i want to thank
01:13everybody for a whole whole organization uh viola family to uh it's uh it's so they they welcome me
01:24in the in the family it's been great we won two cups it's it's been amazing the the coaches uh
01:31medical
01:31staff everybody obviously fans i uh from the bottom of my heart i want to thank them for all that
01:38time
01:38we went through a lot and uh and obviously my teammates uh i love lala i love those guys they've
01:46been amazing to me and the the memories that we built together they will stay in my heart forever
01:55oh man that's not okay he's hurting right now he's hunched over uh he wants to he's gonna cry
02:06nope stay in my heart forever now guys all the time you were making fun of um barky when he
02:13did his um
02:14bob rendition now you now you're gonna appreciate it more hey i have a question
02:20cheering with barky why do we always like like that heartfelt message and all that you could have
02:29stayed i think you felt disrespected dude it's weird but again math the math didn't math i thought
02:37he wanted double figures and then all of a sudden he's just three years and 21 just because it's right
02:42like look just because just because his agent had a crazy ask at one point and it gets leaked to
02:49a
02:49reporter a very credible reporter don't get me wrong right does it mean that that's gospel it
02:54doesn't mean that that was the only number thrown around bob actually said like he thought he really
02:58didn't think it was over until the cats traded for markstrom he's like i thought i thought we were
03:03getting this done he was he he i don't think bob wanted to leave and then i do think that
03:09he was he
03:09was probably and and i think the panthers were like i think they were scared of his age i think
03:14that's
03:14what happened right obviously obviously they were because they didn't extend him if this has been
03:19dragging out for over a year so you know i think he was hurt i think he was i think
03:25he was hurt for
03:25sure but i don't think he ultimately wanted to leave and he goes oh you guys just traded for another
03:32goalie okay and so he went to toronto you know sucks we miss him he'd be all right you know
03:43where to
03:43change that what stanley cup
03:48uh he won the stanley cup in toronto dude if he wins the god he's oh my god we're not
03:53gonna be able
03:53to like we took your goal emergency meeting after that actually i don't think they will win the stanley
04:00cup but if he does win the stanley cup there those you know hey don't i just i just is
04:06it fair to say
04:07this don't at at that point when he took seven million for three seven million per for three years
04:19it wasn't about the money right like he ended up there but for people to say oh the panthers could
04:27have paid that it wasn't about the money at that point no i think feelings were hurt along the way
04:32okay i think feelings were hurt along the way but that's i think it's pretty obvious it's easy to say
04:37wait they weren't offering him that yeah i think feelings were hurt along the way i think that's
04:42definitely was part of it but i think also you know bill zito kind of talked about this is like
04:47you
04:47know we always have other options in the back of our head and i think that they probably got tired
04:52of
04:52the negotiation and he's like oh i don't think you really think you're gonna say goodbye until you
04:57say goodbye i guess they called his bluff and they're like all right we're moving on and he's
05:00like damn really right so uh this was him uh a little bit more on him and why it didn't
05:06work out
05:08well it's it's it's uh it's it's you know it's a business uh the organization decided to move
05:14different direction and that's pretty much it and i i mean i respect that i got nothing against
05:20so that's that's the hockey and they uh they're responsible for their part and i respect that
05:26in in in my position again as i say it i just want to keep only the appreciation and thank
05:34for everything what they have done for me it's it's it's been it's been an amazing journey for me and
05:41i'm i can't thank them enough for everything what they have done you know that's what we say leroy
05:46that's a hockey that's it it just it just like i think when you go into negotiations like that
05:56no matter how crude or mean the the how difficult the the negotiations go that if you make a statement
06:08like that then you should understand that before you go somewhere else not after right and you got
06:15to understand that oh if it's just business i'm gonna go as hard as i can they gonna go as
06:20hard
06:20as they can but in the end we're gonna work out work something out it seemed like thank you for
06:26the
06:26congratulations me at no point in time were they ever gonna reach you know a negotiated number because
06:35everybody was firm on their side yes i think i think you you've hit it everybody was in their stance
06:43nobody wanted to feel like they got beat on a deal nobody wanted to feel like they were giving
06:46up too much to be disrespected you know but i also think that you know there's a little bit of
06:54like
06:54hey you know what about you're not gonna take care of me the way i thought like everybody else you
07:00know
07:00like people because people always talk about the money but everybody else got taken care of by years
07:03as well and right while he's older like he believes in that he's gonna keep it going and you know
07:09they
07:09obviously didn't see it that way so it's bill zito's prerogative i don't love it but well like you
07:15said hopefully his track record speaks for itself and he made the right call and you know markstrom
07:21doesn't stink please don't stink please be good markstrom
07:26you
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