Article d’Eric Francis : « Je n’ai jamais pris les Flames en otage. » Noah Hanifin voulait remettre les pendules à l’heure sur les paramètres entourant son départ de Calgary, car il ne pouvait ignorer le récit qui, selon lui, avait entaché ses dernières semaines avec l’équipe.
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#15!? Somebody boo this man.
He should be booed worse than Johnny.
At least Johnny wanted to sign with us, until Meridith told him no. We basically gave Hanifin a blank cheque and he gave us the middle finger.
Conny did the best he could. If Noah was truly hijacking the process like some people reported I doubt he’d have ended up in Vegas, where it seems like he’s unsure about signing. Not gonna get too bent out of shape about Noah, especially if he truly just wants to raise a family in/around Boston
Sounds like the Flames need to set up a matchmaking service for our players with local women.
Maybe we go a step further and ensure Calgary women (who want to raise families close to home) are marrying NHLers from all teams
[*achoo* I’m sorry I’m allergic to bullshit](https://youtu.be/O9xRhwmHBBE?si=sPXyQnUhd6nDpZy9)
Yeah sure…. Every single insider had it wrong Gimmie a break
Stand up and own it
i’m sorry but if he and his agent were telling teams that he wouldn’t be willing to resign with teams the flames were negotiating with then it definitely seems like he had them handcuffed
“i didn’t hold them hostage, i gave them 3 teams with 0 assets, and told them i only wanted to be traded there. i don’t get where all this hostage talk comes from”
It sounds a lot like this whole story was a nothingburger and all the buzz about Hanifin’s camp screwing us over was fabricated by the media. Huge surprise.
Multiple teams were interested in offering more for Hanifin with an extension, but Hanifin wasn’t interested in signing with any of them. The only team he was open to signing with who would trade for him was Tampa, and they obviously had some lowball offer since we had no leverage. So Conny took the best deal available and traded him to Vegas as a rental.
Making Hanifin out as some villain here is stupid as hell. We can’t force him to sign an extension wherever we send him, and it’s not his fault that only one team he’s interested in as a UFA was willing to trade for him.
The lady doth protest too much.
This is the same type of reporting that was done with the Markstrom rumors. Someone speculates, everyone else reports it as truth.
I sort of lost some of the details in all the media fog, but who was the first to report that Noah was the one handcuffing the Flames to his short list?
Eight-team no trade clause is reasonable, and telling the Flames which specific teams he was interested in signing with is doing them a favour. It allowed the Flames to shop for a better deal with one of his preferred teams, who apparently weren’t interested enough to make that better deal. That’s not his fault.
I doubt he did anything more than what a UFA has a right to do- provide a few teams that he’s willing to sign with.
If I were in his shoes, I would have done the same thing.
Hanafin earned the right to go wherever he wants as a UFA, who can get mad about that? He told the flames he wouldn’t resign so we could trade him and not get shafted. Hanafin having a list of teams he was willing to extend with is completely reasonable.
‘However, his decision not to re-sign with Calgary revolved around his desire for him and his fiancée to eventually raise a family closer to home.
“It was an extremely difficult decision because I loved the organization and the city, but when I looked at the next eight years I just thought the next chapter should be closer to home,” said Hanifin.’
If buddy signs long term which is likely at this point with Vegas this is the single statement that seals all the hate he gets moving forward from Flames faithful. Vegas is not close to Boston. In fact, it is around 500-600km FURTHER away that Calgary is to Boston.
Just say you don’t like the city, you didn’t like being in Canada and you could never see yourself making a career out of an incredible place so many of us including myself are lucky to call home. That would be much more stomachable than you just saying oh yeah I waaaaas gonna sign but it was so tough I just had to test another market or I may regret it blah blah blah.
Stop trading for/drafting players that are not committed to this city, we have plenty of guys who are all-in for the city and we all love them and their dedication. Goodbye Noah, it was a good run but you definitely screwed the pooch here
I think the issue with Hanifin is he shut down discussion on extensions with most of the teams that were interested. From the sound of it, he wasn’t even willing to consider extension which meant that most teams were offering pure rental prices. Even the few teams he was (potentially) willing to sign in were likely offering pretty mediocre packages because they knew Conroy wasn’t going to get any offers that blew him away.
The interesting thing will be how this impacts Hanifin’s career earnings. If you are one of the few teams he is willing to sign with, there is no reason to offer him fair market compensation with full term. Calgary (and many other teams) would likely have offered him a $7.5 million AAV for 8 years but why would Tampa offer as much? Why wouldn’t Tampa offer a $6.75 million AAV on a 5 year term?
I hope the Knights miss the playoffs
Am I the only one that doesn’t really care about how he felt?
Sounds like the Flames need to assign personal assistants to all young unmarried single players.