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 turn out to be the highest-paid goaltender in NHL historical past, however how excessive are the Rangers keen to go?
** NHLRumors.com transcription
“This Skesterkin negotiation is without doubt one of the most fascinating in years for me. And you understand, 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 during the last a number of years.
, it began with the game science of you understand, primary goalie, you shouldn’t play greater than 55 or 58 video games, proper? And now there’s extra of a sharing of the web. After which there’s a college of thought from loads of entrance places of work that say that the goaltending place in at present’s sport is essentially the most tough 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 pay attention, you may actually make an argument for lots of these issues, however Igor Skesterkin and his brokers are saying .928 profession playoff state share, 28 years outdated, UFA in a yr, no matter.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 obtained his $10 million a yr. Carey Value has the all-time document at 10 and a half million a yr.
And the Rangers have communicated, our understanding is to Skesterkin and his camp that they’re keen to pay greater than that 10 and a half million for Carey Value.
So why isn’t it completed as we converse? And I can inform you that I checked in with it once more, you understand, on Wednesday night, and it was established order in that negotiation.
So what’s the quantity that ends this by way of getting an extension in entrance of the, what most individuals consider is the most effective goalie on the 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 suppose it’s simply an excessive amount of?
Jeremy Swayman and Igor Shesterkin May Lastly Get NHL Goalie Their Honest Share
Laborious to say. However it’s fascinating as a result of this isn’t simply concerning the New York Rangers and their celebrity goalie, I feel it’s concerning the goalie place. Usually, it’s the goalies, I feel it’s historic in attempting to place the goalies again on observe financially.”
