I think it's pretty obvious that Treliving is the one delaying things. Bennett's camp isn't raising their asking price as the off-season goes on. Treliving has showed last year that he has no problem taking his time with negotiations. I bet he has multiple offers on the table for Bennett to choose from. Something like 2x2 3x2.5 and 8x5m
Bennett might be waiting to see if the offer goes up. But it won't. Treliving has shown that he won't damage this teams long term cap situation, when he played hardball with Johnny. I also think he lowered Bennett's leverage by buying out Bouma and that helped with Ferland negotiations and now this one. It will get done, Tre knows Bennett is way too competitive to miss out on hockey. I'm not worried and am actually excited to see the final numbers.
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