Everyone is wondering what Artemi Panarin wants to do
Sportsnet: Elliotte Friedman on the latest speculation surrounding the New York Rangers.
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“Well, I just think that after what happened yesterday, where the, where the Rangers sent out the letter, and then they met with a number of their players, they met with the group, and they met with a bunch of guys individually.
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And then the news got out that they are not going to be offering Artemi Panarin a contract extension. And I think the thing Ron, that’s come out of there, is everybody wants to know what his plans are. Like, where is he willing to consider?
And, you know, he talked briefly after they beat Philadelphia today, and he kind of, it was obviously still processing everything, and didn’t want to say a lot.
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I think that’s the biggest thing that’s coming out of this is, you’re going to see a bunch of teams asking, Will he talk to us? Rental? Will he sign? There’s no question to me that that’s going to be one of the things that people look over in the next few weeks.”
Kiefer Sherwood’s agent is working with the Vancouver Canucks to find a deal
Sportsnet: Elliotte Friedman on the latest speculation on the Vancouver Canucks and pending UFA Kiefer Sherwood
** NHLRumors.com transcription
“Yeah, just finally that one of the things that happened with the Quinn Hughes deal was that the Canucks allowed the agent to work with them, to get that trade done, and that’s absolutely one of the reasons it got done as quick as it did. The same thing is now happening for Sherwood.
He’s a good player. He’s having a great year. He’s proved he’s not a fluke. And I just think that right now there’s a bunch of teams that are in there, and a couple people say, they called it poker. Like everybody’s just sitting here right now, like there’s definitely interest.
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It comes to a question of when someone decides to step forward, but the agent now is working with the Canucks to facilitate this deal, and nobody seems concerned about the injury.”
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