Tyler Seguin no longer disappointed and hoping a deal gets done in the next little bit
Craig Custance of The Athletic: Tyler Seguin said he didn’t really watch the John Tavares free agent process, but added it was hard to miss things on twitter.
“Since then, there’s been some dialogue. My agent is talking to the team,” Seguin said. “I’m hoping things can get done in the next little while. … I’m not sitting here saying I’m disappointed.”
Chris Nichols of Nichols on Hockey: Elliotte Friedman was on NHL Network and was talking about Dallas Stars Tyler Seguin. Friedman notes that the Stars definitely heard Seguin’s ‘disappointment’ comments and contract extension talks have picked up.
“Now, Seguin was at the NHL media tour today in Chicago and he didn’t really go anywhere. But when you go from a player saying what he said a week ago to a player now that said, ‘I’m not really going to say a lot,’ that says to me that both sides are serious and they’re trying to make progress to see if they can get there.
“I’m not saying it’s going to happen, but it certainly sounds to me that the Stars got the message loud and clear. The two sides have been working on it. I just think the question is before it doesn’t sound like they were even close, so it sounds like there was a lot of work that needed to be done.”
Friedman adds that one of the keys issues is if they are going to give Seguin more than Jamie Benn‘s $9.5 million.
Joey Alfieri of NBC Sports: Since the beginning of 2013-14, Tyler Seguin is sixth in scoring behind only Sidney Crosby, Patric Kane, Jamie Benn, Alex Ovechkin, and Claude Giroux.
Kane’s $10.5 million per season could be a good comparable. If he went to the open market he could get more than $11 million per season.