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Senators - What Should Shane Pinto's Next Contract Look Like
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Jun 24, 2024
In this episode of The Hockey Writers Senators Roundtable, Ottawa Senators writers Jacob Billington and Dayton Reimer get together to discuss what Shane Pinto's next contract should look like.
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Next up on the list, Shane Pinto
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Uh, we just talked about a lot, a lot about Jake Sanderson. Let's go to another node XM and, uh, Shane Pinto seems to be looking for a
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very large contract, um, given the fact that he played 41 games last year
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Uh, he is looking for $5 million on a five or six year deal
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Is that something you'd be willing to give him? It sounds like Ottawa is looking more like a two year deal so that they don't
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have to shell out the 5 million, but where do you sit with the Pinto contract? I think if it was anywhere other than Ottawa, I would be okay with it
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That's fair. Uh, it's Ottawa has too much history of signing young guys early in their
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career after a, you know, a bright start. And then it fails like 90% of the time
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And it shouldn't be that frequent, but it is in Ottawa, right? You got Josh Norris, great season
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It gets an $8 million deal. He has, hasn't touched that level of success since, um, you got Colin white
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You like, those are the two most egregious examples, but you could
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probably even throw an Anton. No, not on that. Um, goodness. Why did I like Jonas
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Jonas Coper Salo? Yes. He had a really good season in LA
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It was very brief and you bring them in and sign a big and, Oh, that's not great
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So I have seen that they're also looking at a bridge deal. I think you've kind of touched on that
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It's looking at two to three years, maybe 3.5. That's okay. Will it be, you know, incredibly valuable afterwards and maybe up
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to an $8 million deal? Sure. Possibly at that point, you probably don't have Norris anymore
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I, I don't think he's sticking around long enough to finish Pinto's, uh
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bridge deal, especially the way that things are going. I'm, I'm a bit more of a skeptic for Norris
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Yeah. I think a lot of people around Ottawa are pretty pessimistic about the future of Josh Norris in Ottawa
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Oh yeah. Yeah. No, I think a bridge deal is what he should sign
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Cause then he could really cash in. Um, I understand why Ottawa would want long-term, but a bridge is, is usually
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a good compromise between two parties and it's worked out in several different
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markets and I think Ottawa should just follow suit in that
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