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Originally Posted by socalwingfan
It is most likely the pessimist in me, but I am getting pretty concerned with the contract talks for Sean and Johnny. Every time I see a quote lately, it seems things aren't going smoothly on that front. Hope I am wrong
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I don't think there has been much talk of unsmooth contract discussions. Your pessimist is hearing something I'm not.
But what was said about waiting for the cap to be set makes perfect sense. Sign these guys now to big money-8 year deals and then find out the cap ends up the same or even a little less and you've limited how much you can spend on a goalie and you can forget resigning Colbourne.
Have discussions with their agents to get preliminaries out of the way, get some idea of expectations, wait for a budget, project ALL your spending and then negotiate a deal.
This is "the process" at its best