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In this episode of The Hockey Writers Senators Roundtable, Ottawa Senators writers Jacob Billington, Dayton Reimer, and Paul Quinney get together to discuss Shane Pinto's new two-year contract.
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What are your thoughts on the deal
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What are your thoughts on everything that happened leading up to the deal
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There was rumors of a trade request that were shut down almost immediately
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There were rumors of, um, the Islanders maybe pitching a trade at them
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I don't know. It was a bit of a mess for a couple of days. And I feel like Shane Pinto just got to the point and said
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let's just get this done. I'm tired of all this noise. That that's how it feels to me
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Um, but Dayton, what are your thoughts? I think it's a great deal. I think I saw it was 2.5 for this year and then 5 million for next year
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Um, I think that's a very fair kind of, um, meet in the middle ground type of thing
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I can see his next contract being upwards of that 5 million per season. So yeah, that's fine
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Um, the trade request was strange. Uh, I don't, I don't deny that there might've been something around, um, mainly
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just kind of comparing that to the Jacob Chikrin situation. Where it was, Oh no, he doesn't, um, doesn't want to leave
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He's great here. Everything's great. Everything's fine. And then all of a sudden it's like, yeah, I think he's tired of it
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because it just never went away. And I think that probably was being felt by Shane's camp
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So to hear that maybe they were thinking of like, yeah, we don't want this anymore
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I don't doubt that, but Staios, I think did the right thing
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Watch that really quickly. It's like, all right, let's put pen to paper. Let's get this over with
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Yeah, it was, it was a very chaotic couple of days in terms of Shane Pinto rumors
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Um, Paul, what are your thoughts on the whole, the signing, the rumors, everything
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Well, if there's Steve Staios, I think you're happy that you ended up here. You know, essentially what you have is a two year bridge deal
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And in contrast to what I think Pierre Dorian would have done is specifically
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hand out another eight by eight. He used to hand those things out like candy
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Um, you know what, 2.5 million this year, 5 million next that gives the
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organization a chance to size this kid up. Uh, is he the real deal
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So, uh, I, from that standpoint, sure. I thought it was a good one
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As for Louis Gross, his agent, I don't know what planet this guy's from
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Um, if you look at like, come on, Louis, what, what options did, did Pinto have here
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Um, he's not eligible for any arbitration whatsoever. And I, I laughed when I saw, uh, he was trying, his agent rather was trying to go
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out and get other teams to make an offer that, uh, that is just not going to happen
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in this league, uh, I can't recall a situation where another team, you know
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with a restricted, uh, free agent, the likes of, um, of, uh, Pinto, um
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actually made an offer. And if they did, I think, what would they have to give up, uh, their
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first and third round pick? Um, well, I mean, come on, Stelios didn't fall off a turnip truck
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I don't know what he thought. He must've seen that coming a mile away. I don't know why, uh, Louis Gross, um, you know, the agent even bothered with it
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Made them look amateurish
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