Frank Ceravalli

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5,777 appearances 50 recordings 5 series first heard Aug 2023 last heard 7 Jul

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Canucks Central · Frank Seravalli on the Future of NHL Contracts + What’s Next for Anaheim · 7 Jul 2026 podcast

I think they underestimated how far someone was willing to go in order to make this happen. voice-verified

I think in their wildest expectations, they thought someone might press 15 or 16 and tempt Carlson to sign it. voice-verified

And I think they were also banking on Leo Carlson being a relatively quiet, seemed like a, you know, hey, this isn't a guy that wants to rock the boat. voice-verified

And in fact, over the last number of weeks, sizing up this RFA class with a number of managers around the league, that was one of the biggest things that they questioned was, is this kid actually willing to go ahead and sign it? voice-verified

And so they underestimated, I think more than anything else, though, the price and the gap, how big that is between what they were willing to pay, what they thought the market would be willing to pay, and ultimately what it did. voice-verified

And when you see, speaking of outlier, I mean, think about how big of an outlier the Kirill Kaprizov contract is and was until this. voice-verified

And that was for a player pending unrestricted free agency who had a hundred point season. voice-verified

players like weren't using the Caprizov contract as comps because it was so outlandish. voice-verified

Now this one comes and blows that out of the water on a shorter term. voice-verified

I mean, the Flyers kind of, they went nuclear here in terms of the price that they were willing to pay to get it done. voice-verified

I tend to agree with you, but I don't think in actuality that's how it's going to work because players are still more than willing for the most part to A, take life-changing security when it's presented to them, and B, fall within a team structure that in a place that they like playing and believe that they have an authentic chance to win are willing to get in line. voice-verified

So I think it has opened players' eyes for sure. voice-verified

It has definitely opened the eyes of agents to ask and look no further than Pavel Minshikov because after that Carlson offer sheet came down, his agent Dan Milstein was literally calling teams to ask them if they would be willing to put together an offer sheet for Minshikov and finally got to a point where they had one that they were willing to sign and took it back to the Ducks to say, see, in case you didn't believe us, voice-verified

this is where we're at and you need to come to the table and present something proper because our preference is to stay with the ducks, but we'll sign it if need be. voice-verified

So I do think that again, players eyes have been open, but remember what I was just saying before about one year ahead of time and the power of putting $76 million on the table and voice-verified

it's hard to bypass that and want to play out the year because you never know what could happen. voice-verified

And I think as much as we saw the risk on the team side of waiting too long, I think on the agent side, on the Conor Bedard file, we've seen them wait too long for Newport sports. voice-verified

They have bypassed like every overture to this point, being patient, voice-verified

waiting for Leo Carlson or one of these other guys to go first, maybe even Macklin Celebrini. voice-verified

And now Conor Bedard got hurt, as you guys know, right in your backyard. voice-verified

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