Burke Discusses Draft, Other Topics

A lényeg, hosszú lesz:

"Here’s what I told Scotty. His agent said that he’s going to decide by Friday. That’s not the deadline we’ve given him. His wife is expecting a baby. What I told Scotty is, you take the weekend. He’s got much bigger fish to fry right now. The Samueli’s are family first and that’s how we’ve always done things and that’s how we’ll always do things. You look after your family right now. We can wait until Monday. The operative date for us is July 1, not tomorrow. Nothing we do tomorrow, positionally, it doesn’t factor in. We’re going to take whoever we take. I don’t have a sense which way he’s leaning. I know which way I hope he’s leaning." - Burke Niedermayerről

"He’s an unrestricted free agent. I can’t give Teemu a deadline. I can give Scotty all the deadlines I want because he’s under contract, but Teemu is an unrestricted free agent. He can sign wherever he wants, whenever he wants. What I’ve told his agent, Don Baizley, is that as of July 1, we are not going to commit that we would have funds available to re-sign him. He has a deadline not to sign with us, but that at that point we might move on and not be in a position to sign him. That’s a real deadline for us." - Burke Selännéről

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