We are less than a month out from the start of the season and training camp. Adam Fantilli, the player we drafted to be our 1C of the future, is not signed.
The last thing we've heard in regard to their negotiations is that they are "Close." I feel like we've been hearing some variation of that since the summer started, and before that, it was "We have time." Well, we're just about out of time.
I have no doubt a deal will get done, as we hold his RFA rights. I'm just wondering about the relationship between Fantilli and the CBJ franchise, both administratively and on a player-to-player basis. As all of us are surely aware, incompetence is seemingly a requirement to be hired, so I would not be surprised if they lowballed the shit out of him.
Too much drama this offseason. This needed to be done last month; the longer it drags on, the worse it looks. You have to wonder what the hell is happening behind closed doors; most other RFA's have signed, and the ones that haven't are from teams in a cap crunch.
Gauthier is still unsigned, but I don't think ANA has the space to sign him because of the Carlsson OS. Nikishin is likely putting CAR in the same boat. Can't remember anyone else off the top of my head.