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The Valenti Show

HOUR 4: What's Yzerman's Issue With Term?

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The guys start off the final hour of the show re-visiting the heated Red Wings from earlier, this time looking at the reason Steve Yzerman does not like giving free agents more term. They take your calls and read your ticket texts until Wojo and Riger join them to round out the show.

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0:00.0

Five o'clock, great to have you with a saudacy.com rewind. You missed anything. I'm gonna...

0:06.6

I have a different question regarding the red wings and the free agent Benanza. If you want the pistonsons you can go back to last hour.

0:15.0

I'm going to ask a question, okay?

0:17.0

And I want to make sure I say this for the people in the back.

0:20.0

I'm not claiming this is the truth.

0:22.0

I'm asking if this is the truth. I'm asking if it's the truth.

0:25.0

So, NHL free agency, you are seeing term, forget about the money for a minute, but the term, I mean, five years, six years, seven

0:36.8

years, eight years, and it's across the board, and it's all the players that you would have wanted.

0:43.4

Okay, now, clearly, some of these teams grossly overpaid.

0:47.9

But if you win a cup or you're making meaningful playoff runs, I don't think anyone

0:52.4

cares. So, like an example,

0:55.4

if you told me Stamcoz was leaving Tampa, I would have said he's coming here.

1:00.3

Isherman. But from what you hear and what you see or what you read it doesn't seem like

1:08.4

the wings were willing to go to four years. Well, Nashville was. It's just a feeling you get Kenny cosines. They go four years at eight.

1:17.6

Maybe you were a two or three. Here's the point I'm making. It's a it's the question of in life you don't really get to do the things you want to do

1:27.4

quite often. It's more about doing what you need to do. Is Isherman too smart for his own good?

1:34.0

Iserman does not want to do deals that have term.

1:39.0

He doesn't.

1:40.0

I think that's pretty obvious.

1:42.0

Does not want to go beyond four years again Kenny as our

1:45.6

hockey elite do you co sign that remark yeah I mean look at our look at the young guys too it

1:51.2

looks like you know there's been talks I don't know if there's

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