When the Quebecer signed a two-year contract for a total of $ 10 million on December 31, he then publicly claimed to have requested a transaction from the team’s leaders.
Sportsnet got the chance to chat with the 22-year-old forward hours after his trade sending him to the Winnipeg Jets.
“It was a process”, he then said. “I thought about it for a long time, it wasn’t overnight, I didn’t just wake up one morning and made this decision. It was something I had thought about, and as the negotiations went on I didn’t take anything personal, but as I went along I started to think about things and situations. . At one point I thought that if this was a long contract, eventually I would have wanted a trade to take place. “
However, on Monday, the Columbus GM claimed that is entirely false.
“It’s just not true at all and he knows it. I don’t know why he would say that or even imply something like that “, Kekalainen told TSN. “I think in total it took 10 minutes to draft his contract when we finally agreed on the length of the deal. We had several proposals on the table, either two years or three to eight years. “
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“There was never a problem with negotiating this contract, it was done very quickly and I think what we signed was a fair deal for both parties. ”
The Columbus manitou would also like Dubois to be more sincere about why he wanted to leave the Blue Jackets.
“There was nothing in these negotiations and I would like Pierre-Luc to tell the truth about why he wanted to leave. He didn’t even tell me. He didn’t tell his teammates or anyone else. It was certainly not about contract negotiations, I can assure you. “
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