Frankly Hockey's Frank Seravalli (7/6/26)
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I am. I'm getting geared up for USA Belgium coming up here in just under 90 minutes.
The president got involved, eh?
Allegedly. I mean, he acknowledged that he did. I don't know whether or not that actually had any influence on the process. That, I think, is the real question. Him saying that he did, of course he wants to say he did, but did FIFA actually allow that to impact it? That part is less than clear.
Yeah, well, FIFA has allowed a lot of things to impact a lot of things, as you know, for decades and decades.
I thought it was really rich that Sepp Blatter, of all people, was out here
complaining today I was like really like anything that comes out of his mouth should be null and void yeah well there you go um I guess we start with the Leo Carlson offer sheet so here's the deal Frank I've heard really good things about Henry Simeone the owner of the Anaheim Ducks who by the way I don't know if our listeners know this he is worth 34 billion dollars he is he the richest individual owner in the league He's the third.
What insights does Frank Seravalli share about NHL free agency?
He's the third. Who's got more cake than him? David Thompson, for one. Yeah, that's the family holdings. Yes, yes.
But yeah, nonetheless, he's in the top 10 in the world, I think, and is the richest man or richest family in Canada. So we'll start there, which always kind of makes me chuckle whenever the Winnipeg Jets want to cry poor. I mean, we're talking about a rounding error. Someone connected with the Ducks told me recently that Henry Samueli made more in interest last year than the Ducks spent on players' salaries. There you go. Have that enter your brain for a second.
I believe he recently bonused a whole bunch of his staff, not the players or the coaches, but there's a rumor out there that he certainly looked after a lot of his people, so that's a good thing to hear. Okay, so let's get to this. Is it fair to say Anaheim, you saw the poll put out by The Athletic that they were selected the toughest team in the NHL to deal with. I think they had seven first place votes there between Pat Verbeek and Jeff Solomon. Is this a case of the chickens coming home to roost here a bit with Anaheim with this Leo Carlson offer sheet? A little bit.
The way that I framed it heading into the weekend was play stupid games, win stupid prizes. It feels really good in the moment to keep your team at a healthy diet and cap structure when you have the leverage as RFAs. And make no mistake, the way that this negotiation has gone I mean, it directly led to the exits of Mason McTavish, Jamie Drysdale, Trevor Zegers, and you could make whatever comments you want about them being imperfect players, but nonetheless, the way that those protracted negotiations went down, I think really left a sour taste in everyone's mouth. And so that was sort of the beginning of the end for those guys. And there's been a lot that's happened with the Ducks since Pat Rubik took over.
I think in addition to tough negotiating, Greg Cronin didn't do him any favors with the job that he did in Anaheim. And I think it created a tough environment. And that, to me, is really the most fascinating part of this Leo Carlson pickle that the Ducks find themselves in. As I see it, they lose either way. Either they keep the player that is their franchise number one center and their cap structure is blown to smithereens and they can try and offload a couple pieces and get Cutter Gauthier signed and their depth erodes in a significant way.
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