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A Cold Winter

by IwoCPO on 06/28/09 at 09:51 AM ET
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Checking in from my unannounced, but very obvious, break from blogging…to ask this question:

Does Rich Winter belong in the Jackatoreum?

He’s doing his job, or at least he’s looking out for his own very personal interests.  He wants as much cash as he can gather.  Everybody’s momma’s got to eat.  So he’s going to push this thing as far as he can, for as long as he can.

Tell me. Do you think Marian Hossa is going to ok a deal with LA, so that he can earn two million more per season?  On the face of things, that’s an idiotic question.  Two million more? Of course he has to consider it.  He has to.  But with that two million comes a lot of losses. 

I still think Hossa’s leaning toward the Wings for 5 or less per year.  Malik’s been all over this, including this morning when he pointed us to Jim Matheson in Edmonton.

If Marian Hossa doesn’t take the Red Wings’ long-term offer for between $4 and $5 million a year, Detroit will trade his negotiating rights, likely by Monday, two days before free agency opens.

Reliable sources say the Los Angeles Kings, who are looking for a marquee player and have lots of salary cap room, will come hardest after the unrestricted free agent. They could play Hossa with Anze Kopitar.

Bottom line: if Hossa signs in LA he’s forfeiting any chance at all of ever winning a Cup.  It’s not going to happen there and we all know it. He knows it. Winter knows it.  LA knows it.  That’s why I don’t think it will happen.  Am I saying he won’t sign elsewhere? Nope. Despite my gut telling me it’s still gonna be Detroit, he could go somewhere else. But if that happens, it’s going to be a team he can win with.  This year? Maybe not, but sometime in the next three.  And that’s not the Kings.

Winter’s doing his job and he’s putting the pressure on Tick Tock, while demonstrating to his client that the money’s out there if he wants it.  Winter gains absolutely nothing by being the guy who proudly says “my player took less.”  It’s no badge of honor for an agent.

Enjoy your Sunday.  I’ll be at motherfu**ing Ikea.

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