Du podcast de Friedman à Sportsnet:
“The Canadiens decided they wanted to give DeAngelo a look but they didn’t want to pick up the $5M for next year, right? So what was gonna have to happen was DeAngelo and the Rangers were gonna have to agree to a termination and then the Canadiens were gonna sign him to a contract for next year. Now I don’t know the exact number, but basically from what I heard, it was gonna make DeAngelo whole. Because DeAngelo’s under 26. He’s only getting bought out for 1/3 next year, not 2/3.”
“So by not excepting the termination, he saves just under $3M. I think Montreal was going to make him pretty close to whole. That’s what I understood. Between next year and this year, he was gunna be close to whole. However he (Tony) decided not to do it and he’ll take the buyout. He turned down the Canadiens. What I think is that he believes there’s gonna be other opportunities for him and maybe there’s something that he thinks is better, but he does seem to believe there’s gonna be opportunities for him. We’ll see. We’ll see where it goes this offseason, but Montreal was definitely interested and they offered him a contract for next year that was gonna, if not make him whole, come pretty close to it.”