Lax Class 401 - John Gurtler

Yeah, I mean, uh, maybe we, we start there, I suppose.

Um, I did kind of reach out to Zach and Reed, not realizing that Zach was with Team Canada for, for tryouts, so, uh, probably shouldn't have done that.

Uh, bothered him while he was going through that.

But, uh, just kinda gave the boys a bit of a heads-up, saying, "Hey, you know, uh, we had Jamie on.

Uh, the plan was to talk about Philadelphia and Ottawa and maybe the Oakville Rock and stuff, but, uh, the topic of free agency came up, and I just wanna just give you a heads-up.

You know how it goes," [laughs] sort of thing.

Yeah.

And gave them the heads-up, and I gave them an invitation to come on.

Uh, they politely declined, which I totally respect and, and understand.

But I don't know, man.

Like, uh, nothing official announced yet, I don't think, but about an hour after the podcast dropped, uh, caught wind, caught word that free agency will in fact be pushed back to September the 1st.

So did you, um...

Did they give you any inkling of what was reportedly asked for, or was that just shot down or denied or-

No.

You know, like, uh, I, I a- like, I was like, uh, like he wouldn't get into the particulars on what, you know, he...

And, and neither would, would Reed, which, you know, I didn't expect him to either, so-

Yeah

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I don't know what, what was on the table, what wasn't on the table.

Sounds like free agency's been pushed back to September the 1st, so they got a bit of a runway to try and figure out Ottawa and Philadelphia here over the next, uh, three weeks or so.

Or we could be looking at a couple of dispersal drafts just ahead of free agency opening, and then the NLL entry draft, which is scheduled for September the 10th.

That's kind of-

I thought-

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the timeline we're looking at here.