{"id":182370,"date":"2013-07-24T21:14:34","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T21:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vip.local\/2013\/07\/24\/hnic-s-elliotte-friedman-talks-alfie\/"},"modified":"2013-07-24T21:14:34","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T21:14:34","slug":"hnic-s-elliotte-friedman-talks-alfie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/hnic-s-elliotte-friedman-talks-alfie\/","title":{"rendered":"Elliotte Friedman Talks Alfredsson"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tNot everyone can recover at the same rate as an Erik Karlsson, so maybe it shouldn’t come as a surprise that some fans are still mulling around and investing a substantial amount of time thinking about some potential underlying issues that may have led to Daniel Alfredsson jumping ship to join a Detroit Red Wings team that many would be hesitant to describe as a favoured Stanley Cup contender.<\/p>\n
\n\tSo with that in mind, today’s TGOR interview<\/a> with Hockey Night in Canada’s Elliotte Friedman should be of significant interest to that sect of a fanbase who wants to hear what one of hockey’s true insiders thinks of the situation. <\/p>\n \n\tWhen asked whether the comments of Murray and Alfredsson are just public relations spin or whether they can be taken at face value, Friedman picked the latter.<\/p>\n \n\t“I think that in a lot of ways, Alfredsson and Murray were pretty honest about it when they spoke about it the day that it happened. I don’t that there is a lot of lying going on here. I think just the one thing here is that you have to read between the lines. And, I did write about it. I wonder if there was a little bit of mistrust between, not Alfredsson, but Melnyk and JP Barry over the whole Dany Heatley thing.”<\/em><\/p>\n \n\tNews that Melnyk could have been a divisive factor is nothing new. Rumours of his troubled finances have started on the interwebs, messageboards and blogs and have begun to creep into the mainstream. And further to Friedman’s inclusion of Melnyk’s name, he is not the only journalist to draw links of discord between Alfie’s camp and Senators ownership.<\/p>\n \n\t\tTony Rhodes is as close to Daniel Alfredsson as anyone in Ottawa. And he points to Sens ownership in this decision to change teams.<\/p>\n \t— Wayne Scanlan (@HockeyScanner) July 6, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n