Bill Zito Wins! Aaron Ekblad, Brad Marchand, and Sam Bennett stay with the Florida Panthers!

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Bill Zito freaking did it! Aaron Ekblad signs an 8-year extension with the Florida Panthers and Brad Marchand will reportedly agree to a 6-year contract worth $5M a year. Tomas Nosek also got signed to a 1-year deal!

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00:00bill zito friggin did it aaron eckblad eight-year extension with the cats reportedly

00:066.1 million a year which is a pay cut right yeah oh yeah yeah you got nine ten they were saying

00:14millions upon millions that's what uh john butcher grass said that this guy he he just he took the

00:19discount brad marshall six-year extension 32 million for him he got two guys that probably

00:29could have got 70 80 million it's gonna make canada furious it's because they're gonna do the state

00:35tax thing again even though mitch martin just signed with vegas or a sign and trade with vegas and he's

00:40getting 12 a year they don't have state tax either they do not they do not leroy they do not they do

00:46not i'm glad you pointed that out no they do not bill zito will speak today at 11 oh by the way the

00:53the the panthers also right before we got on the air they just signed thomas nosak to a one-year

00:58seven hundred and seventy five thousand dollar deal so the fourth line staying together too

01:03okay people are really taking pay cuts

01:05holy smoke he's like championship he's like man just give me all right he goes give me this he goes

01:15but but he goes not a million bill he goes sga just signed a super max oh

01:21he goes but but free derrick queen you got me give me that pen i'm all i'm signing up

01:29this was aaron ekblad the panthers uh account yesterday they uh they got a message from very handsome

01:38good boy aaron ekblad panthers fans aaron ekblad here i'm so excited to be a panther for the next eight

01:46years i'm honored and privileged to have gotten a deal done today um it's everything i could have

01:54ever asked for uh i'm really excited to get back to work and uh get on our way to winning a third

02:00straight stanley cup does it make everybody even more furious that he just has the water in the

02:05the background i'm like what the hell is that a waterfall i don't have to i want one i want one

02:14he still has that temperature there he does you know he doesn't no he doesn't he always had a beer

02:19right he's he's his his hair and his beard are too glorious you don't you don't get rid of that

02:24yeah he's too handsome he's a babbling brook i don't know i don't know i think that is just i think

02:31that's his that i think that's the intercoastal and he goes he goes yeah i could live in calgary

02:36but look at this panthers fans aaron ekblad here i'm so excited to be a panther for the next eight

02:42years i'm honored and privileged to have gotten a deal done today um it's everything i could have

02:50ever asked for uh i'm really excited to get back to work and uh get on our way to winning a third

02:56straight stanley cup you guys can't see this if you're listening on the radio but he's also like

03:00kind of got like this motion that looks like he's petting a manatee wouldn't it be really funny if

03:05it's like brad marchand just kicking the water in the background i mean it may it wouldn't be shocking

03:09it may be it's in the background you hear me too he's like

03:17brad marchand uh the panthers just officially announced the marchand signing uh bill zito going

03:22to speak at 11 o'clock we're going to talk to the hockey hornet david dork's going to join us at about

03:2610 30 and uh we'll has he sobered up i don't we'll ask him bill zito says uh instantly supplementing

03:35our lineup from the moment that he arrived in south lauder brad has been an outstanding addition to our

03:39team he's the definition of a warrior on the ice a critical leader of our group and a relentless

03:44competitor well he is tiny he is tiny so there you go the pat the panther is getting

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