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Originally Posted by rohara66
Florida and Huby were mid negotiation on a contract extension... doesn't sound like someone that they were trying to cut ties with.
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Were they? According to his agent, he tried to get the ball rolling on a contract extension at the draft, Zito said he needed a week or two to take care of other business first, and the next time they heard from Zito it was about the trade. Walsh said they were expecting a contract offer, but it never came.
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On Tuesday, in an interview with Daily Face-off’s Matt Larkin, Huberdeau revealed how he found out he had been moved and how the trade call with his former general manager, Bill Zito went down. The forward had just wrapped up a game of beer league hockey and his phone rang.
“I don’t think he’s calling me for an extension at this time of night,” Huberdeau told his friends.
He was right. Prior to the monster trade, there had been talks held between the Panthers and his agent, Allan Walsh, with the Huberdeau camp reportedly expecting an offer to be forthcoming. That offer would never come though, and instead the next time Huberdeau and his representation heard from the Panthers it was to notify them of a trade.
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https://www.hockeyfeed.com/nhl-news/...ally-went-down
That sounds pretty far from contract negotiations being underway.