Confirmed Signing with Link: [NSH] D Dante Fabbro signs extension with the Predators (1 year, $2.5M)

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[RedHawkDown]

good for them. wanted the guy, bummer

 

[Soundgarden]

Great! Glad to see he didn't get traded after all. Hopefully Hynes goes so he can get some more ice time.

 

[Porter Stoutheart]

Glad to see the Preds held onto him, he was so good last season, hopefully he'll be right back at that level next season with Hynes gone, and we can revisit the long-term extension next year!

 

[DingDongCharlie]

This could still spell an off season trade as the team would know the seasons cost certainly around him. 1 year deal doesn't scream off the market to me.

 

[predwings]

This could still spell an off season trade as the team would know the seasons cost certainly around him. 1 year deal doesn't scream off the market to me.

Kind of a prove your worth contract. Need to see him be worth a longer extension or a reason to move him next trade deadline.

 

[biturbo19]

This could still spell an off season trade as the team would know the seasons cost certainly around him. 1 year deal doesn't scream off the market to me.

Yeah. This looks to me like the sort of deal you come to if you can't agree on "value". Where you can either use it as an extended audition to prove he's worth a bigger longer-term deal, or to give you an asset that is cheap and easier to trade than an RFA with uncertain contract demands.

 

[Armourboy]

Yeah. This looks to me like the sort of deal you come to if you can't agree on "value". Where you can either use it as an extended audition to prove he's worth a bigger longer-term deal, or to give you an asset that is cheap and easier to trade than an RFA with uncertain contract demands.

It's good for Fabbro too cause you don't really want to try and negotiate a long term deal with what happened this season.

 

[Siludin]

Assuming Fabbro regains some form but doesn't explode offensively next season, what would the ask from Nashville be?

 

[Porter Stoutheart]

Assuming Fabbro regains some form but doesn't explode offensively next season, what would the ask from Nashville be?

I don't think he needs to regain "form"... just needs a coach that will play him in the top-4 where he belongs. He will never "explode offensively" either IMO. Preds already have Barrie and Carrier on RD, and there's no question they are more offensively-inclined than he is, so he'll always be the guy hanging back and being responsible.

But if for some godforsaken reason the Preds don't fire Hynes this summer, there's not too much point in keeping him. Just find the best offer, hopefully a 1st, if not then a suitable change of scenery swap, if not then a 2nd+Prospect. I cannot see going any lower than that.