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by Paul on 09/07/10 at 07:23 PM ET
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Craig Custance of The Sporting News talks with Jay Grossman, player agent for Ilya Kovalchuk among others…
Grossman on the drawn-out negotiations: “At one point in August, I looked at almost every team and they had 19 or 20 players signed and it’s like, ‘Where’s the money (for free agents) going to come from?’ That’s part of your job to understand what kind of player you’re dealing with. On July 7 or 8, there were people who said that we had blown it and missed our opportunity and they were way off the mark … When you have the Hope Diamond, you can afford to be patient.”
On getting a major deal done in a tight free-agent market: “It speaks to the value of the player more than anything. I said that to Kovy even when, as recently as last week, this was dragging on. Before we submitted the second contract to the league, the question was raised: ‘Are we going down the right path?’ I said, ‘Look, nobody is walking away from you.’ Nobody did walk away from him. Most of all, New Jersey remained absolutely steadfast and determined in the process.”
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