For this final episode of the season, we revisit Juraj Slafkovsky’s brand new contract, which he gets for $60 million over eight years. A good idea? We also discuss Kent Hughes’ relatively quiet day at the opening of the free agent market and what the other clubs did. After all that, is it fair to believe that the Canadiens will be a team “in the mix,” to borrow a now-consecrated expression?
We also look back at the quiet return of Joel Quenneville and Stan Bowman to the NHL universe and we wonder if Sidney Crosby will end his illustrious career in Pittsburgh or perhaps elsewhere, for example in Montreal…
Animation: Jérémie Rainville
Guests: Richard Labbé, Guillaume Lefrançois, Stéphane Waite
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[Kent Hughes] could very well have offered a little more money [à Juraj Slafkovsky]but still with a lower percentage of payroll than Suzuki and Caufield earn.
Guillaume Lefrançois
[Le contrat de] Joel Edmundson, this can’t be. I don’t understand, I reread the text three times because I thought I didn’t understand it well.
Richard Labbé
I’ve been saying this all the time for the past few years [que Mikhail Sergachev] was overrated, and that was the opinion in Montreal when they let him go.
Stephane Waite
Episode details
Block 1
- 2:15 – Juraj Slafkovsky: 60 million, can it change the world?
- 10:45 – Canadiens draft report
- 4:15 p.m. – Quiet day for Kent Hughes on the free agent market
- 20:30 – Is the current portrait of the Canadiens that of a club “in the mix”?
Block 2
- 27:05 – Free agent market: it’s raining dollars and years
- 33:50 – Your most surprising signature?
- 39:30 – Lightning always finds a way
Block 3
- 46:10 – Joel Quenneville and Stan Bowman pardoned by the NHL
- 52:10 – Sidney Crosby’s final year of contract