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Joe Will is working with Tomas Hertl’s agent Craig Oster to keep the impending UFA with the San Jose Sharks.
“The one thing we have in common is that Tomas loves being a Shark, and we love having Tomas here,” the acting San Jose Sharks general manager said today. “So now, it’s finding a way to have that happen.”
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Of course, there’s a lot of space, in terms of dollars and years, between Tomas Hertl wanting to stay and actually staying.
“We’re going to do everything we can to try and make that happen. It’s challenging in an environment where there’s a flat salary cap,” Will said in an extensive media availability today that covered topics like Hertl, Evander Kane’s grievance, Doug Wilson’s health, Nikolai Knyzhov’s injury, and William Eklund’s potential return. “And that just makes it a little bit more complex in how you get to the end result. Tomas is a big part of our team. We’d like to keep him.”
It doesn’t sound like Will has actually offered a contract to Hertl yet.
“We’re kind of in the parameters discussing things,” he shared. “We’re going to narrow that into more specific negotiations.”
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