Two Devils Granted Leave, Mrazek Signs Extension, Utah Jazz Owners Want NHL Expansion

Two Devils Granted Leave, Mrazek Signs Extension, Utah Jazz Owners Want NHL Expansion

Welcome back all right so news of the day video for all you find people for your Wednesday January the 24th starting off with what we were talking about earlier this morning Danny Brier at a press conference uh answering questions regarding Carter Hart leaving the team and not really giving much information

Because he can’t uh there really isn’t much he can say and you could tell he wanted to say more basically that uh he’s looking from guid looking for guidance from the league on what they can and can’t say and all that and up until then you’re going to have your

Legal team saying don’t say anything so Hart’s on leave he did say yeah Hart was playing well and and that’s basically where we’re at Hart was playing well he believes in Sam Arison there’s not much else he’s gonna like he’s not going to come out and say he doesn’t believe in

Sam Arison I’m not saying he’s wrong to believe in Sam Arison either because yeah Aron’s played well this year uh but they’ve got Peterson called up now to be the backup so for Danny Brier uh he’s going to do his best now that this press conference is done to get back to

Business as usual uh it’s it’s not going to be easy and then the the New Jersey Devils uh that fourth and fifth name uh there at least there are now five names and whether it’s just the five we’ll see like we’ll see if other players end up

On leave or anything else happens uh but Michael McLoud and Cal foot are on leave from the devils and it’s an indefinite leave of absence the wording of this almost identical to uh Dylan Dubay to uh Carter Hart and of course Alex formenton uh being on leave from his team in Europe

That’s five players so we’ll see what happens uh Rick weste head saying that uh he’s he’s dug into it and usually when when people are told they have a deadline to report to the police uh it’s normally a week maybe two weeks so uh I I would think that the players

Involved would turn themselves in sooner rather than later there’s really not much point in delaying but again it’s a developing story we shall see so with McLoud and foot gone from the team uh one positive right now with New Jersey is Andre poot seems to be ready to

Return telling reporters he should be good to go for Thursday’s game so again those are your five names we’ll see where that goes all right uh in other news today Peter morzak has signed an extension with the Chicago Blackhawks the team that I really think’s turned

His career around and he said saved his career uh it’s a 2-year deal worth $4.25 million per season so again a player that the Hawks could have rented out of the deadline they decide to keep him instead uh and his numbers are good this year 127 And1 is his record considering

The overall record for Chicago 127 And1 is respectable uh 907 safe percentage and again considering the defense in front of them that 9007 safe percentage is kind of fantastic so moric deciding to stay in Chicago you got Felino Dickinson staying in Chicago I I guess we won’t be talking about the rentals at

The deadline looks like they’re ready to just lock everybody down uh so yeah I I think it’s the right move for both morzak and the Hawks I think he’s playing some of the best hockey he has I I want to say back to when he was a

Redwing uh back that far uh the last time I can remember mazic playing as well as he has is a Chicago Blackhawk uh so Ottawa they have won three of their last four they’re sitting 16 points out of the playoffs and so you’re in a position

Now where it seems like jacqu martan has got them playing the right way they’re playing so much better than they were before it’s not doesn’t even look like the same team on the ice however um do you sell at the deadline and so there’s a lot of discussions about whether or

Not chicken could be on the Move now remember last year at the deadline peorian did went out of his way to make sure he gets Chan and sold them on the idea of Chan and he’s been very good but this is a team that has a lot of pretty

Solid defenseman and I could see them trying to move chan chan on the other hand when those rumors uh were at were basically brought to him uh he is publicly stated he wants to stay in Ottawa he has no idea where the rumors are coming from he has no intention of

Leaving the Ottawa Senators uh and you got to be careful if you’re Ottawa you you got to be careful because you’re a team that’s at or near the bottom of the league and uh you you want to make sure that players want to come and play for your team so this is

One of those situations where if you get a reputation with players players talk to one another and if they’re like yeah you don’t want to go play there it could be difficult to to attract players and to switch get that reputation uh turned around winning does go long way towards

Making people want to go play for you though so if Ottawa wins a bunch of games between now and the trade deadline uh they can put themselves in a position where maybe they don’t want to sell so we’ll see what Steve stos does and what the plan is but it definitely looks like

Chan could be on his way out Shabbat name’s been out there too and rumors I’ve seen I just don’t really get into the rumor side of it the only reason to mentioning Chen is because it has reached the mainstream level and he has addressed it and saying he wants to stay

In Ottawa and I think for for the S it’s important to have players that want to play there uh I I’ve never understood trying to trade a guy just cuz well we could get an asset but if he wants to be there you know find a way to keep them

Around uh now this is also big news today and I thought about doing a video on this just in and of itself but I thought no I’ll put it into the news of the day and then we’ll see if anything happens over the next couple of weeks

That’s going to change things so the Arizona Coyotes and I’m mentioning the Arizona Coyotes cuz this has always been sort of the speculation in media circles the Arizona Coyotes should have an announcement this month regarding their new building I would not be surprised if it’s over all-star weekend I would not

Be surprised if it’s while I’m down in California and if it happens while I’m in California I’ll take my phone out I’ll make a video and I’ll upload it to the channel saying congratulations to the coyotes I’m figuring this out I may even bring a coyotes jersey with me down

To California just in case but it’s been speculated that the NHL doesn’t want to get into the expansion process until the Arizona situation of finding them a building has been really and truly resolved in their eyes and so in this case Arizona will be building the arena

With their own money there’s no public money that would be involved why do I mention this because Utah is now pushing for the expansion process to ramp up now what’s interesting is Salt Lake City has been seen as maybe the backup if things don’t work with the coyotes so if they

Don’t find the building maybe we just end up going to Salt Lake City and again it’s been widely speculative and all the speculation being as it is but um it it just feels like yeah that could make some sense a team in Utah could fit into the central right Salt Lake City would

Absolutely work in the central so you’re not needing to move teams around so for instance if the Quebec crowd got their wishes and you move a team from Arizona to Quebec well now you’re going to have to move teams around in divisions because Quebec can’t be in the central

So so Utah coming out and saying publicly hey we we want an expansion we want an expansion team so the parent company of the Utah Jazz has requested that the NHL open the expansion process the reason I find this endlessly fascinating is Salt Lake City has already been talking to the NHL about

This process so does this mean that the owners of the Jazz are not happy with how slow the process is going maybe they feel like they can juice things along a little bit by hey hey NHL expansion process let’s go so they they also acknowledge they’re going to build a new

Arena because basketball and hockey the sight lines are completely different the Arenas don’t necessarily work for both Sports there are exceptions in the National Hockey League but those are truly the exceptions and the building currently occupied by the Utah Jazz wouldn’t work for uh a Utah hockey team

So I do find this interesting because I think the NHL has this process in place where they want to have Arizona settled first and then they’re going to expand remember Gary bman hasn’t said they’re not going to expand just we’re not expanding right now we’re not in that

Process right now so for instance if Ivon said to me said are we getting divorced if I said not right now she would have some questions so it’s not a no is what I’m saying and and the answer to that would be no but yeah it’s just

It’s one of those things that it feels like it’s going to happen we’re going to get a team at Salt Lake City uh Houston’s been very much uh hopeful for a team but they’re not pushing this hard we have not seen Houston come out and say so NHL team now and that

Basically seems to be the kind of idea here with Utah is pushing the NHL towards the expansion process I still think the expansion would probably be around 2030 like not soon this is not a league that I think is looking to expand soon but at some point do I think it happens

Yeah the NHL and the NHL owners like to have money the NHL PA would be perfectly fine with expanding the union and for all the discussions about watering down the product I have heard that discussion since 1990 when uh the San Jose Sharks were coming into the league and all the

Complaining about how that was going to water down the league because wh expansion had already watered down the league thus the wh Jersey this is the LA sharks so I got this yesterday I fig I might as well wear it in the video today so we’ll see if they end up going to

Utah and what look like if that happens let me know your thoughts regarding and I know there are people who are absolutely opposed to expansion but it’s going to happen I I really believe it’s going to happen I think it’s just a matter of when because when somebody

Says we haven’t opened that process right now we’re not in that process right now they’re going to expand so uh yeah we’ll see how that goes and the one question I have with this is the NHL has answered basically with uh we know it’s a good Market we know it’s a good market

And and we believe in hockey there but the NH has gotten kind of ticked off when they’re pushed uh Jim balsley uh of course famously tried to get teams into Hamilton a couple of times and the NHL made it pretty clear that they were going to living Stone him uh and that’s

Basically what happened uh Bley never got a chance to actually own an NHL team in part because the NHL didn’t like how he was going about it he was going to just buy a team and move it that’s not how it works he was just GNA buy I’m

Gonna buy Nashville and move them no you’re not I’m gonna buy Pittsburgh and move them no you’re not I’m going to buy Arizona and move them no you’re not so we’ll see we’ll see if this this is different of course because this is a team just saying we have an expansion

Now how about expansion now is this going to irritate the Board of Governors is this something because while we talk about bman a lot if the Board of Governors get irritated with this expansion demand then it’s not going to happen because the Board of Governors has to approve expansion um I I’m sure

If they get irritated you could still say but money and then they go okay and rubber stamp but we’ll see uh Mark shley gab Gabriel valard are to miss the game tonight against the Toronto Maple Leafs this is great news for Toronto uh shley an excellent forward and valard uh

Really honestly has fit in better I think with the Jets than he did with the Kings so we’ll see how the Jets do tonight minus both players and of course the Jets should be looking for a bit of a bounceback after after a night against uh Boston where they allowed four goals

The very rare night that they’ve allowed four goals this year uh Cole Smith has signed an extension with the Nashville Predators it is a 2-year extension worth $1 million per season so there you go let me know your thoughts in the comments section below as always don’t

Forget to hit like And subscribe in the event that you’ve not done so already and yeah let me know if you think that uh you know them coming out and saying hey open the expansion process does that make the NHL more less likely to to want

To go there right away or does it not have any effect are they going to be like ah forget it it’s fine it’s fine ah they’re just blowing smoke let me know your thoughts thank you guys so much for all your support as always and I will talk to you again soon

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