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Walt » úte 28. čer 2011 07:12
tak dnes, najneskôr zajtra by sme sa mali dozvedieť aké zmluvy podpíšu zostávajúci ešte nepodpísaní hráči : Oshie, Bishop, Reaves, D Agistini.
Z toho čo som mal možnosť si prečítať, Army sa neobáva problémov pri dohadovaní zmluvy s Oshiem, tá bude na svete čoskoro. Rovnako tak s Reavsom a Bishopom. Troška neisté vyjadrenia padli v prípade D Agostiniho. Jedania s jeho agentom zatiaľ neboli úspešné. D Ago mal dobrú lanskú sezónu, kde nazbieral 46 bodov, z toho dal 21 gólov. To všetko s platom 550 000 dolárov. Sám som zvedavý ako sa dohodnú a či vôbec. Času už nie je veľa, len do 1. júla, potom sa stane UFA hráčom na trhu, tak uvidíme...
- tu sú niektoré z vyjadrení :
The Blues have been negotiating a contract extension with D'Agostini and could continue to do so before Friday, but it appears that he will hit the market.
"We had good dialogue leading up to making this decision," Blues general manager Doug Armstrong said. "Arbitration is very inflationary. The comparable group (of players to D'Agostini) is a small group. We felt that it was best to negotiate with a larger pool of players, without the backdrop of arbitration.
"We still think he's a valuable NHL player, and we'd like to continue to talk to him, but not with the backdrop of arbitration. We're going to continue to talk and hopefully he'll still be a Blue."
Steve Bartlett, D'Agostini's agent, said the absence of qualifying offer today does not mean D'Agostini would not re-sign with the Blues.
"I think we're still working on it in good faith," Bartlett said. "Our first hope is to get something done (in St. Louis). We had several good conversations, and we'll continue to have good conversations."
D'Agostini made $550,000 last year. His 21 goals were nine more than his career high and his 46 points were 25 more than his previous high. In arbitration, he could make as much as $2 million per season, if not more.
"Doug said they don't want to throw it to arbritrator ... they want to negotiate something that everyone feels was a mutual decision, not a third party," Bartlett said. "I know more and more teams are less anxious to have an arbitrator decide salary. I'm not looking at it like talks have blown up, or that we're not trying to get a deal here. They had to make a decision whether to give me the option of arbitration, and they decided they didn't want to do that."
Army mal vyjadrenie aj k otázke ohľadom Oshieho :
Updating negotiations with Oshie, Armstrong said: "There's continual diaglogue, but not to the point where there's comfort with the other side's position."
Armstrong noted that the Blues have gone through similar negotiations recently with young RFAs.
"I'm very comfortable where we're at with T.J.," Armstrong said. "We've been here with (David) Perron, (Erik Johnson) ... many players over the years. You get deals done when everybody feels comfortable. I'm very comfortable that T.J. Oshie is going to be a St. Louis Blue, very comfortable we'll find common ground there."
The Oshie case is somewhat different, however, because Oshie does hold arbitration rights. His agent, Matt Oates, did not return a phone message from the Post-Dispatch.
"At the end of the day, the arbitrator will tell us (Oshie's salary)," Armstrong said.
When asked about trade rumors involving Oshie as contract negotiations drag on, Armstrong said: "The goal is to sign him. The goal is for him to be part of the team. This isn't exclusive to T.J. Oshie, but the goal is (also) to get the team better. That being said, every fiber (of the situation) right now is that he's going to be in the opening night lineup and have a really good season."
- no a čo sa týka vyriešenia brankárskej "dvojky" tam je to tiež na spadnutie, ale predpokladám, že dvojkou bude Bishop a do Peorie niekoho už kúpia.