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Deal on the Horizon for Keith?
by Patrick Hoffman on 09/08/09 at 08:53 PM ET
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From Jesse Rogers at ESPNChicago.com:
While no negotiations have taken place, Keith’s agent, Ross Gurney, is expected in town soon which means those talks could heat up. Keith will get a considerable raise from the $1.5 million he is making now.
Too bad for Duncan he wasn’t born a month earlier; if so, he’d be an unrestricted free-agent at the end of this year instead of next. He’ll be 27 on July 16, 2010 which is the age NHL players become unrestricted but he would need to be 27 by July 1.
This gives him a little leverage, I suppose. If he doesn’t like any long term deals the Hawks have to offer (and doesn’t sign a restricted deal with another team) he could play next year under a “qualifying offer” and then become unrestricted.
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Random footnote:
I went to a NY Yankees game with my Dad (former Islander player Bob), and we watched the game with Dale Talon, this was two NHL seasons ago, and he called Keith “the most underpaid defenseman in the NHL” at that time. I happen to live in the same town as Duncan (or did at the time, rather - Kelowna BC), and passed on this info. Can’t help but feel like I’ve poured some fuel on the fire in some small way, which makes this a buncha fun to watch.
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Posted by Justin Bourne from Phoenix on 09/08/09 at 11:54 PM ET