Boomer, Pinder and Rhett dive into one of the more surprising stories of the season: the breakout year from Tampa Bay Lightning defenseman Darren Raddysh. With Raddysh producing at a point-per-game pace and putting together a career season seemingly out of nowhere, the guys debate what his next contract could look like as he approaches unrestricted free agency. Is this the start of a true breakout for the Lightning blue-liner, or a career year that could make his next deal a risky bet? The crew breaks down Raddysh’s production, his value to Tampa Bay, and what the Lightning might be willing to pay to keep him around.
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Dermat is just having a season that no one's talking but he's a defenseman making less than a million dollars who has 17 goals
Now while there are players that aren't on entry levels making less than anything that have had seasons
I don't see the demon there
He is going to get paid
He's been sensational. They've had headman lost injury
They needed someone to step up on that blue line and radish can absolutely hammer the puck
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Caution or excitement both didn't like goddess. Yeah, like yes, he's going to get paid, but
What are you buying? I don't think you can say you're buying a 20 gold demand
Which will end up probably being but I think if you said he's a top four that can help on a power play
I'd say yep, how do you know because of what he's done with Tampa this year, but you ever watch
No, but I mean no, I've broken down his tape, but I
I get the sense that this is repeatable
It's it's not like it's uh, I'm sure there's some shooting percentage luck, but
I don't know that you can see a guy get to 20 and then just not be a player like is that ever happened in this league
Where a demands were 20 and then it's like a team well, so he's on pace to hit 20s my point
His career high prior was six. I feel like it does happen, but I don't know like
He just I think he's like 27-29 somewhere in there just 30 see 30 seeing that like to me
It's like who he's headed at the right time. He's a free agent this summer. Tampa wants him back
They talked extension mid season. They aren't on the same page yet
But does he want to stay in a winning environment? Does he want to get the payday? He is 30 making less than a million
He's gonna take his money. Who is the guy in Philly that had a good year walker
John Walker
Sean Sean
Right said regardless. I think it does happen and I would be very
Then went to Colorado. Yeah, and they call her out of moved him out again. Yeah, don't even know if he's playing
He is trying to I saw him his name the other day and I'm not trying to be a jerk about it
But yeah, like he got Walker. No, that was different guys different guy. It's Sean. Yeah, you're good. You had it um
It's it's it's on it can't be sustainable
No, and no one's saying that this is sustainable, but is there a 12-goal top four guy there? Not the third parry of thought he was before the year
I think the answer's yes
Like there's a middle ground, right? Okay, but what do you like he's a free agent? Yeah, so what are you gonna give him?
We want him in Calgary
I'm gonna pay this man because we are gonna. We need yeah
If you were a team needing a second pair. I believe he's left shot. My man. Is he ready? Okay
So they don't need right you have a lot of strong a Lynch strong opinion
Yeah, I said 27 to 29. He was 30 god. I was way off. Sorry
Well, like we're doing this on the fly
Like how much of his if you watched a lot of conversation about my list of much podcast or they've talked about how this contract and you were taking York
You've you've now cemented your opinion based on podcast. I'm taking very safe middle ground here
It's not a hot take that he's better than what he's been in the past
But he's not ever gonna repeat the season again. Like that's absolutely the most rational position you could have
Okay, that he's better than he was ever before in his career
But he'll never repeat the season is that too hot taking for you. Why is he suddenly better
At 30 like what's happened? I don't know why do you want an orsa 35 from the Fag
Which you played and he got hurt and he was put into headman's spot
You love toating Jill and Jill is someone like outline. Why does anyone have a career at any time
Like everything is lined up for him opportunity, but also his place clear warranted it
It's all they don't have other demand that could have had minutes right like they've got
It's amazing what he's done. He's had us
He has 58 points and 56 fire be where I hope it turned sure and he has to
Chase the money and it's like why did why did we go have 20 goals two years ago and can't score anymore now like
It's just it's a career. That's the more but you could use your trajectory after
There are no head 20 goals as a rookie and never again
Yeah, so I don't know what has worked this year
But if you're going to set a market for him
I'd say what is this second pair guy that can run power play to cost you
The oilors gave seven plus to wall men, but there's a way longer track record what he isn't only
And he's a little younger
It's going to be really interesting to see what they do because
Obviously the fit and Tampa's great
But it won't be the biggest dollar figure
If and to that I mean to that and we can move on
But if this is more like if he's had this ability in him
It's kind of sucked to be in Tampa
Because you've been held back a little bit if you've had these type of it's i believe
Capability you stop so he had six goals six goals like the points have been there 30 points 37
It's decent
But if he's had
I guess he's over a point of game to blue liner. That's insane. If he's been in that
40 to 50 point range type of a guy
Unfortunate for him in a way that he's been in Tampa Bay where he could have been flourishing maybe elsewhere
Or it's a hell of a year
It's probably all the above right
To say me we won 30-year-old defense but only twitter and 30 games and this is the sad part is I feel like I'm pecking on them
But I was nowhere close to 17 goals, but I just
This is another guy that his first full season was at 26. Yeah, I would be very very skeptical on
Bringing them in to be my
Where was because there's there's another team that the flames played were Jonathan Asperer. I think it was Boston
He was an NHL or forever including like he was with two last years with Wrangler or something like that
And he's now playing like regular top four minutes with the bronze
They're very unique in situations, but
Like how you come up with a contract that's fair for both sides after these seasons is really tough
Bennington had to sign a deal really quickly after that out of nowhere
Run with the blues. I think it was the year after you won the one the cup and then these season after you're like
What do you pay the sky? It's like it's a hot run or like it's only a year and a half? Yeah like Asperer
He plays of Boston this year. It's his first NHL season. He's 42 games two goals. Tell it's he's 26. Yeah, like that's
You don't see that very often. So so what is is it
Did Boston find a guy is it is Boston desperate enough to need to get like what is it is
It's somewhere in in the middle where there's something stylistically that fits with somebody there
But the but the radish one the points are astounding. Yeah
Yeah, and you get to work on a power play one that's pretty unbelievable
So I don't think anyone would think they're buying a point per game defenseman if they get them in free agency
But would it be reasonable to say a half point per game?
Maybe say 10 to 12 goals not 20 maybe
It's it's not as if he's unskilled and they're banking things off him right
Well, I've not watched on it over there. Yeah, I'm looking. He's over a point per game in the NHL few years ago as a defenseman
That's that's a pretty that speaks to a really nice skill set not many players can pull that off
You don't have to sell them to me. I'm just saying that it's a real outliers 30-year-old come along
Yeah, totally three 37 the years before which is nothing to sneeze that never drafted
And his brothers are forward that hell's your problem
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