Nurse has a two-year offer from the Oilers
Chris Nichols: Bob McKenzie on Darnell Nurse‘s contract situation: “By all accounts, Nurse’s contract negotiations are not going well at all. So we’ll have to wait and see on that.”
Bob McKenzie: (responding to the above tweet) “Probably should have added — and this is true of all RFAs, especially those who end up getting bridge deals after realizing vast gulf on long-term valuation, and that will be Nurse — they almost always get done. Just a matter of timing and how close to season opener.”
Jim Matheson: The Edmonton Oilers feel that their two-year contract offer for restricted free agent Darnell Nurse was fair. “But restricted free agents are the big currency for the NHLPA these days, setting the bar down the road.”
Jim Matheson: Missing training camp puts a player behind. Nurse loves playing in Edmonton and is best friends with Connor McDavid. It doesn’t make much sense if they can’t reach a deal by the start of camp on Thursday.
Terry Jones: (replying to Matheson) “It’s an old-fashioned standoff. Nurse has the Oilers where they want him because of the defence being so thin and the schedule so tough to start the season. And Nurse needs to have a great season from the git-go. If he does, it’s going to mean big buck in along term deal.”
Is it a difference in value or does Trouba not want to be in Winnipeg long-term?
Chris Nichols of Nichols on Hockey: Bob McKenzie noted on his ‘Bobcast’ that Jacob Trouba is on a one-year that was awarded through arbitration and is two years away from unrestricted free agency.
“I’m not saying Trouba for sure will be one and done or two and done in Winnipeg. But let’s be honest, because he hasn’t signed that long-term deal with Winnipeg – is that a difference simply in a view in value, or is it because long-term he doesn’t want to be there.”
