OverDrive - June 26, 2026 - Hour 1 - Darren Dreger
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All right, here we go, overdrive off and running. TSN 1050 on the TSN app, your home smart speaker up on TSN 5, up on YouTube Live, streaming later tonight on Crave. Brian Hazel, Doug Jeff O'Neill, Jamie Noodles, McLennan. What's going on today? What's going on?
Just rejecting massive offers around the horn. Some of the stuff I'm reading, I find... Very difficult to digest, Hazy P. Very difficult.
In Dallas, you mean?
Yeah, Jason Robertson.
Sorry, Jason Robertson.
He signed in Edmonton.
He got a deal done, right? He's happy.
Robertson reportedly turned down an offer from Seattle, eight years, $15 million per, which would launch him past... McDavid, Dreisaitl, Matthews, you know, not quite Kaprizov territory, but he decided to turn that down. I think Jeff Merrick was saying that St. Louis was kicking tires on a deal with Robertson, and he said, absolutely not. Not going to happen. So, yeah, he's a really good player. Crafty, smart, offensively inclined. I have no idea what he's doing turning down $15 million a year over eight years. I mean, that is, to me, a grand slam, lock it in, and let's ride type of scenario.
Yeah, I don't understand. The only thing I would ask is, why wouldn't he want to stay in Dallas? It sounds like they did offer him kind of the Rantanen deal. I think Dallas is a team that's very close, very close. They're knocking at the door being, yes, Colorado was an absolute juggernaut last year. You know, Minnesota's gotten better. But Dallas is always a top-tier team. They're young. If you look at their spine of their team, that's why Johnson's 22 years old. Maverick Bork. You know, you look at Hintz. You look at Haskin and, like, Ottinger's 26. Like, they got a young, really loaded.
I think he wants to stay there. He just doesn't want to stay there for $12 million a year. That's the sticking point, Noodles. I think that's the thing. He's like, well, Seattle's going to offer me 15. Why can't you offer me 15?
That's because Dallas didn't offer that. So you had the opportunity. I have no idea what this guy is thinking. He must have some kind of inflated vision of his own self where, I get it, he's a good player, and it's a year where there's not a ton of them around, and he's going to set the market. But to turn down eight years at 15 per, I'm sorry, his agent must be just disgusted.
Well, disgusted. Unless he's the one turning it down and letting everyone know what's going on, right? Like Seattle's sitting there like, what do we have to do to get our hands on somebody here?
15's a massive number. But keep in mind, if Dallas... Got to 12, okay? Yes, it's a tax-free state. I get all of that. So is Washington.
So is Washington.
Exactly. That's where I was going to go, Brian. So if he turned down 15 on an eight-year deal, that's basically $3 million a year between the 15 and 12. That's $24 million he left on the table by not going to Seattle. Now, if you're...
Why did Jason Robertson turn down a massive offer from the Kraken?
Maybe there's another team out there. Maybe St. Louis was willing to do it, and he said no. But maybe there's somebody else that he says, I'll go there for somewhere in the middle of that, and I have just as good a chance to win.
We'll see. We'll find out. Because Robertson needs a contract, and I think Dallas obviously would like to keep him. Really good player. Really good player.
I know, but isn't it, guys, just a slam dunk when somebody offers you that money? You could go in the gym tomorrow and, like, just – I don't want anything bad to happen to anybody. What happens – like, if somebody puts that in front of your face, I have no idea how you could possibly say – I don't care if that's in the worst place in North America. I'm telling my agent, and my agent would tell me, you're signing the contract because he's a smart guy and he knows that you just can't say no to that. I don't get it.
$120 million.
$120 million cash.
No guy. I mean, do you kind of admire him to go, I don't want to go to Seattle and not win?
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