Let’s talk about Sid The Child for a moment.
During his 2nd and 3rd NHL contracts, Sidney Crosby signed a new deal a year before his contract was set to expire on July 1 of the previous year.
But now, for the first time in his career, Crosby is less than a year away from becoming a free agent and still hasn’t signed a contract.
Is this the end of the world? Of course not. After all, he still has 11 1/2 months before becoming a free agent, which gives the Penguins plenty of time to offer him what he wants.
It looks like it’s coming, but nothing is official yet, which inevitably opens the door to speculation.
This led TVA Sports to write the following article about Kyle Dubas and his handling of large contracts during his time as an executive with the Maple Leafs,
And basically, we understand that the main interested party believes that he could have liquidated the contracts of Auston Matthews, William Nylander and Mitch Marner more quickly in 2018 and 2019.
That’s what Dubas said in a book that will be published at the end of 2024. It will be called Franchising: The business of building winning teams… and that despite the fact that it has never built a winning team.
The thing is, he can’t make that mistake with Sidney Crosby. He can’t sign him either, since he did it in the midst of a controversy. He has to do it by the rules.
Otherwise, Penguins fans will be upset. And since the path the hockey president wants to take — trying to win with an old core — is already dangerous, he can’t afford to alienate fans by mishandling File No. 87.
To be continue.
