#11 - Kopitar Prefers Amps That Go to Eleven

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Re: What's Up With Your Team? "No, it's not October yet" edition

[(Anonymous)]

A bit more from @CraigCustance:

To follow up on @lakingsinsider report, gap in Kopitar/Kings negotiations a good couple million per season apart. Pretty significant.
Kopitar also has no interest in negotiating during the season so there's going to have to be some serious progress made in short term.

This is going to be fun. I expect the Kings to re-sign him though, they kind of went through the same thing with Doughty (though RFA vs UFA is a difference).

Re: What's Up With Your Team? "No, it's not October yet" edition

[(Anonymous)]

RFA vs UFA is a huge difference and basically not comparable. RFAs have little to no leverage.

Re: What's Up With Your Team? "No, it's not October yet" edition

[(Anonymous)]

I consider it similar because they are both star players that the team would rather get this done and over with quickly so I think they will find a way to make it work even if it doesn't look good now.

I didn't mean the leverage part of it (which yeah, the power is with Kopitar in this situation).

Re: What's Up With Your Team? "No, it's not October yet" edition

[(Anonymous)]

Except there are lots of cases of high profile RFAs dragging things out (see Subban) and not so much with UFAs

Re: What's Up With Your Team? "No, it's not October yet" edition

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know if we're at the point where this can be called dragging things out, but recent star pending UFAs who didn't have a deal by September (at least from what I remember and doing some light searching of extension dates to confirm, I might have made a mistake): Suter, Parise, Rinne, Lundqvist, Kessel, and both Stamkos and Kopitar this year

It happens more with RFAs, but it still happens with UFAs.