So just on this podcast I cracked open my beer because now that Petranilo

is signed I feel I can relax a little bit and I've got some Scotch here too for after the beer so I would

suggest to anybody who's listening stay to the late ends of this podcast because it could

get better.

Here's a buckled Elliot Friedman trying to stand around a few words.

Oh yeah there's a lot of layers to this Alex Petranjillo situation and that's why the

podcast is out late when you consider we wanted to do this once all the big stories were put to bed.

Here we are on Monday night 946 eastern and the Alex Petranjillo situation is put to

bed which bleeds into the Nate Schmidt situation which

bleeds into the Vancouver Canucks situation which goes back into the Vegas Golden Knights situation and let's begin there.

Alex Petranjillo, the deal is seven years, it's 8.8 million dollars on the AAV and a full no move clause.

Before we talk about the team, let's talk about the player.

What just happened with Alex Petruangelo?

Go brick by brick.

So I think that Alex Petruangelo and St. Louis chatted several times in the last week,

but from what I've heard, although there was plenty of talk and

plenty of negotiation, I don't know that anyone ever believed it was going to get done. I just think the sides were too

far apart philosophically and it had been left too long. I think by that time, you know, Petrangelo was frustrated, he was upset. I think there was a lot of emotion involved.

I just don't think they ever got close enough where anyone was confident that they were going

to get a deal.

So free agency started at noon eastern on Friday. I had heard Friday afternoon that he was going to go to

Vegas on Saturday, couldn't get it confirmed, and then of course somebody who worked at that

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