Posts About "Offer Sheet"
Vancouver Canucks Need to Offer Sheet Anthony Cirelli
August 6th, 2020 Depth wins championships. Look no further than the 2019 St. Louis Blues, the 2018 Washington Capitals, the 2017 Pittsburgh Penguins...the most recent Stanley Cup champions all have strong players up and down their rosters. The Tampa Bay Lightning have been at the top of the NHL standings for years but have been unable to win a...
Flyers Lookback: The Shea Weber Offer Sheet
June 26th, 2020 Offer sheets in professional sports are not a common occurrence. Normally, unrestricted free agency is the route most teams go in the offseason when trying to add talent. Offer-sheeting restricted free agents does have its history though. The Philadelphia Flyers have actually done it a couple of times already, the first being when they...
Canadiens' Potential Offer Sheet Targets
May 26th, 2020 As fans prepare to settle in to enjoy a modified 24-team playoff that includes the Montreal Canadiens as part of a play-in series, team management is looking ahead at the 2020-21 Montreal roster and the holes it needs to fill. Related: The Greatest Team of All-Time - Montreal Junior Canadiens General manager (GM) Marc Bergevin...
Flyers May Have Won It All With Ryan Kesler
May 22nd, 2020 The Philadelphia Flyers once broke one of hockey's unwritten rules, and almost landed a future NHL star in the process. In 2006, the Flyers signed Ryan Kesler to an offer sheet. At the time, the 22-year-old Kesler was coming off his first full NHL season and was one of the Vancouver Canucks' prized prospects. As the Canucks were...
New York Islanders Will Match Offer Sheet for Mathew Barzal
March 22nd, 2020 In the last couple of offseasons, restricted free agents (RFAs) have gained more power over their second contracts. The Toronto Maple Leafs were at the center of this power struggle when they negotiated with forwards William Nylander and Mitch Marner. Nylander held out until the end of Dec. 2018, missing nearly half the 2018-19 season,...
Canadiens Should Submit More Offer Sheets
July 10th, 2019 Heading into this off-season, there were plenty of rumours swirling around that someone was going to make an offer sheet to one of the many talented restricted free agents (RFAs). It was Montreal Canadiens general manager Marc Bergevin who stepped up and offered Sebastian Aho of the Carolina Hurricanes a five-year deal that the...
Lightning Should Prepare for Point Offer Sheet
July 6th, 2019 Last week, the Montreal Canadiens pulled out the first offer sheet since 2013 when they offered Carolina Hurricanes forward Sebastian Aho a five-year contract worth $8.454 million average annual value (AAV). Aho had a breakout season posting 83 points in 82 games, and the Hurricanes matched the offer sheet to keep the Finnish forward in...
NHL's RFAs Have Proven to Be Untouchables
July 4th, 2019 Some of the NHL's best, young players are available. Technically. Mitch Marner, Brayden Point and Jacob Trouba are just a few of the restricted free agents in a bumper crop. Every team in the league would like to add any of those players this summer. H...
Canadiens Offer Sheet Aho
July 1st, 2019 The Montreal Canadiens have tendered an offer sheet to Carolina Hurricanes' restricted free agent Sebastian Aho. The proposed contract is worth $42.25 Million over five years and would carry an annual cap hit of $8.454 million per season. https://twitter.com/CanadiensMTL/status/1145764410138464256 Based on the annual value of...
Leon Draisaitl: A Perfect Offer Sheet Target
August 1st, 2017 Newsflash: The Edmonton Oilers are good. Their 33-point upgrade over the 2015-16 season in 2016-17 was no fluke. They finished second in the Pacific Division and dispatched the San Jose Sharks in six games in the first round of the playoffs before losing to the Anaheim Ducks in seven games. With Connor McDavid, the best player in...
Should The Blackhawks Trade Andrew Shaw's Rights?
June 6th, 2016 Andrew Shaw is a player that holds undeniable value for the Chicago Blackhawks. The expectations weren't very high for the pending restricted free-agent (RFA) forward who was drafted by the Blackhawks with the 139th overall pick in the 2011 NHL Entry Draft. Unlike most late-round draft picks, however, the odds were stacked even higher...
What an Offer Sheet Will Cost in 2016
May 18th, 2016 If you're a team planning on placing an offer sheet for another team's restricted free agent this summer -- or a fan who loves speculating -- than you'll want to bookmark this information. The AAV levels have been set for compensatory picks on successful offer sheets. Below are the breakdowns, but first, here's how it works....
Hindsight is 20/20: NHL Offer Sheet Edition
August 10th, 2015 The history of the offer sheet in the NHL is an interesting one. In the 1990s, the offer sheet was a popular tool among GMs, with 25 being extended in the decade, and to some popular names like Scott Stevens, Teemu Selanne, and Sergei Fedorov. But from 1999 to 2005, a dead period existed when there wasn't a single offer sheet signed....
