The Florida Panthers will have to make some tough decisions on who to keep this summer
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Trade Lundell.
Apparently Zito said last night after lifting the cup that he believes we can keep all of them.
Also today at Elbo Room, Bennett was chanting along with the crowd “8 more years!” Ekblad chimed in too. Ekblad was very very clear in his media interview before the cup that he “bleeds for the Florida Panthers” and doesn’t want to go anywhere. I heard from someone who knows the family that money isn’t a problem. His wife and her family are wealthy. So if he wants to stay, he’ll make the deal to stay.
Everyone wants to play for a winner. You can guarantee that all 3 of these players will want to stay, even for a lesser price
Ahahahah how dumb are you if you think Florida has “tough decisions”. since when is bring back EVERY single player except likely Marchand on a 2m discount from open market a “tough decisions” such tough decisions signing Ekblad for a 6×8 and Bennett to an 8×8 and Schmidt to league min again! Oooo! The decisions!
Why dont they just cheat again and put marchand on bench until playoffz
Keep Bennett and bobrovsky. Fill in whatever at trade deadline
Team friendly deals incoming. All 3 stay, watch Zito work his magic.
BACK TO BACK
😂 this boys can’t stop crying about it … PTSD is real in Edmonton 🚨
Eki Said he‘ll try to get third cup next year, guess he‘ll stay cap friendly for 6 mil and 6 years. Benny might be around 8 mil and Marchi will leave the panthers together with Schmid.
All of them stay… they will go for atleast two more cup finals… which sucks for my leafs
All 3 will sign on massive discounts to stay apart of something special. Media members who have never played sports in their life wouldn’t understand it.
They will be back next year and will probably win it . Unless oilers and rid of nurse
Take less….stay as true contender for a 3 peat…
They are taking hometown discounts and winning again next season.
Habs need Marchand and Marner… throw in Crosby and next season looks pretty good 😊
Marchand will take.a haircut to win
Best outcome is they lose all 3. These guys have 2 cups the discount time is over. Bennet has been underpaid for his entire career, he wants 12-14 a year.
Marchand walks, Bennet gets 8-8.5 a year long term deal, Ekblad they might let go unless he sign a super team friendly 5-6 a year. But they’ve got his replacement Seth Jones already on the roster so they’ll let him walk if they have to.
Ekman-Larsson, Montour, Gudas, Lorentz, Stenlund, Tarasenko, Stolarz, Lyon and many many more. They all got more money in different places – which puts that "tax advantage" myth to rest but ZIto just reloads. Regardless of who stays and leaves the Panthers will be competitive. AT LEAST 2/3 will stay of the following… Bennett, Ekblad, Marchand.
Bennett 8 at 7.5 ekblad 8 at 7 job done.
Bennett 8 years, 5-7 million
Ekblad 5 years, 4-6 million
Marchant 2 years 2-4 million
So total between 11 to 17 millon. I would quess all of them takes on the lower side.
The GM seems pretty confident he can bring all three back 🤷♂️
All three players have expressed their desire to stay with Florida and have said they don't want to go anywhere else.
Between Florida having the room to make it work as long as the players are willing to take team-friendly deals, which it sounds like they are.. As well as the fact that all three players have expressed their desire to stay, there's no way they don't get it done.
Toronto's just going to be fuming lol. I've seen so many Toronto rumors about them getting Bennett and/or Marchand. One of the Toronto analysts even said something about how he was 100% sure Toronto would be getting one of the two. They are going to be pissed when they don't get either because both sign again in Florida 😅
The team is staying together dummies. This panthers team is solid and can potentially get to a few more cups
Look for plenty of restructuring to maximize the return of most if not all.
He used a lot of words to say nothing.
Florida teams have 20% more space , and players got less taxed so can accept lower price
If the players agree to discount pay, they can keep the entire team
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