Rumor: Canadiens interested in offer sheeting Laine

[Bedards Dad]

This could be the spark the Matthews-Laine rivalry needs!

What rivalry?

 

[BatVader]

 

[Captain Mountain]

Bergevin going full villain?

He's the 7th longest tenured GM in the NHL, Montreal has missed the play-offs in 3 of the last 4 seasons and he's been progressively more aggressive in making moves. Pretty clear he DGAF.

 

[Kudo Shinichi]

Would winnipeg match a 5 years x 10.5 M offer?

I cant see the habs going over that and giving up four 1st round picks for him

 

[vanarchy]

Hmm. I would go after the more desperate cap strapped team. I feel like Winnipeg has more flexibility/assets to make anything work.

 

[slybel]

Should I be worried.... I am only 80km from Montreal.... Is the water safe?

so... 11.5 for 7? 4 1st picks? Why I ask...

YOU get an Offer sheet....
YOU get an Offer sheet....
YOU get an Offer sheet....

 

[strongcomp05]

I honestly highly doubt that Montreal sends another offer sheet - it just doesn't give a good message to the world. You can always threaten them but I trade can always be worked out as well

well you are wrong, they are for sure gonna fire another one off

 

[Jacob]

Let's see if they offer sheet Vrana too

Would the Caps be able to match 4,227,437? They have like 6 million left to sign Vrana, Djoos and Stephenson.

 

[Unsustainable]

We need Carolina to stop being jerks for this to happen

We are still searching the couch cushions for change according to posters here to pay that signing bonus.

 

[HogtownSabresfan]

Everyone talks about Bergevin, but what a story it would be if Lou offered 11,4 x 5 to Marner.

Punch it to $12.25 M and take Leafs out of it

 

[mitchmagic]

Bergevin sucks

 

[Roboturner913]

Itll happen on monday if its going to happen Carolina has no effect on it whatsoever

Actually, it'll happen on Tuesday, and Carolina has everything to do with that. Why do you think all the other teams with RFAs approached Waddell asking him to wait the maximum time allotted before signing the paperwork?

 

[Yoshidas Island]

He's the 7th longest tenured GM in the NHL, Montreal has missed the play-offs in 3 of the last 4 seasons and he's been progressively more aggressive in making moves. Pretty clear he DGAF.

I've always felt like he's not risk averse lke 90% of the GMs in the NHL, but now he's getting to the point where he's being ruthless and it's hilarious

 

[8816 others]

Have the Canes officially matched the offer for Aho? Would be interesting if the Habs had to pay out for Laine and Aho and give up all those compensation picks.

 

[waffledave]

Better offer 10 minimun then.

He gave Carolina a steal on Aho.

Carolina was perfectly capable of giving him that contract too. It's not like Aho had no choice, he could have rejected the contract. I don't understand this talk about him having helped them out when there was literally nothing stopping them from giving Aho exactly that contract.

Plus, while the AAV is great, the contract sucks. All the money up front and straight to UFA. Not sure why any team would be happy with that, it sucks.

I hate Bergevin by the way, I think he's a f***ing moron.

 

[Hunter368]

If it’s anything like the Aho offer then teams will gladly let Bergevin negotiate contracts for them lol

Exactly.......bring on that weak Habs OS.....doing us a favour. Haha

 

[jetsv2]

Would winnipeg match a 5 years x 10.5 M offer?

I cant see the habs going over that and giving up four 1st round picks for him

10.5 would be below the 4 1st round pick threshold, they will match anything that isn't 4 1st round picks.

 

[slybel]

Have the Canes officially matched the offer for Aho? Would be interesting if the Habs had to pay out for Laine and Aho and give up all those compensation picks.

I blame the JERKS! all their fault! Our GM is gone bananas!

 

[habsfan891]

Actually, it'll happen on Tuesday, and Carolina has everything to do with that.

Lol by tuesday carolina will have lost their best player if they havent finally signed the papers and also if laine is going to sign an OS he will simply wait thus carolina has zero effect at all

 

[Roboturner913]

I've always felt like he's not risk averse lke 90% of the GMs in the NHL, but now he's getting to the point where he's being ruthless and it's hilarious

It's only ruthless if it works. It ends up looking kind of sad and desperate when it doesn't.

 

[McSnypsky]

What happens when no one wants to pay mitch what he wants? Lol

Your reverse psychology won't work here Paul...

 

[jetsv2]

Have the Canes officially matched the offer for Aho? Would be interesting if the Habs had to pay out for Laine and Aho and give up all those compensation picks.

It doesn't work that way, they can't offer sheet both of them. They will have to wait until the Canes match or not before signing another player to an offer sheet with those picks.

 

[KingPuckChoo]

it's not as if Marner wouldn't be a good fit in Montreal, Bergevin has always been a cheap GM

small time deals, waiver pickups, screwing people out of a "moral victory" 4th rd pick type of a GM

given that, even if he knows his best chance at landing an RFA would be Marner as TO would be hard pressed to match a $12m figure (i'm not debating if Toronto would or wouldn't match - calm down leafs), but giving up 4 first round picks is NOT Bergevin's style

nor is it his style to give 2 first rounders for Aho or Laine

so all he's doing is shortening everyone's 8yr potential contracts to 5 lol

to me this is so Pejorative Slured i can't express it in words (literally i can't, it gets censored)

 

[SteadyFreddie]

Would winnipeg match a 5 years x 10.5 M offer?

I cant see the habs going over that and giving up four 1st round picks for him

For me personally I don’t think they would.
Laine has a rough year, and it seems like teams are figuring out how to stop him from scoring. Plus Winnipeg could get a nice little haul of draft picks and cap space to use to make their team better.

What would the compensation be for a 10.5M contract anyway?

 

[Filthy Dangles]

Have the Canes officially matched the offer for Aho? Would be interesting if the Habs had to pay out for Laine and Aho and give up all those compensation picks.

According to CapFriendly, he's listed there as being under contract with Carolina. Is that definitive though? Not sure.

Sebastian Aho - CapFriendly - NHL Salary Caps