bobby mac on TSN radio.
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McKenzie "before the summer is out, the Wings and Babcock could agree to a 5 year extension."
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McKenzie "it could go the other way and the Wings and Babcock might just play the year out & Blashill is a nice insurance policy"
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McKenzie "the Wings are doing with Blashill what they did with Jim Nill. They're buying his loyalty"
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McKenzie "Babcock has a contract and he plans on honouring it"
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McKenzie "this goes against the grain in the sense of Babcock being the next coach in Pitt or the future coach in Toronto..."
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McKenzie "...but, I wouldn't be surprised if Babcock & the Wings do a long term deal for a lot of money this summer"
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O'Neill asked McKenzie why Babcock wouldn't explore his options and try to get big money as a FA coach next year.
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McKenzie responded with, who's to say the Wings won't just give him that money to stay put?
well they did pay sammy, cleary, tootoo and bert and kindl over 10 mil this past season. guess they could easily make babcock the highest paid coach in the league in a light of that. i guess we'd be talking 3 + mil annually.