Rumor: Canadiens interested in offer sheeting Laine

[Captain Mountain]

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

I don't even know if its ruthless as much as chaotic. Some of his recent major moves have been great, some haven't, almost all have been aggressive and unpredictable.

 

[Rockomax]

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Nope, only Finns get offer sheets.

 

[RationalExpectations]

I believe Bergevin tries to trade for Laine rather than OS.

 

[SI90]

Yeah I'm sure most teams are thrilled to let their young up and coming stars sign contracts straight to UFA with all the money up front.

If these contracts are so good why not just give it to them to begin with?

Calling their bluff. Also, it actually increases their trade value later on if they want to trade them. Aho’s cap hit will be a lot more than actually money the new team has to pay.

 

[Balthazar]

Better offer 10 minimun then.

He gave Carolina a steal on Aho.

Such a steal that they are going to lose him in 5 years instead of 7 or 8.

 

[robertocarlos]

Was well publicized that GMs with pending RFAs approached Waddell asking him to wait the full 7 days.

And a waste of time. Bergy has all summer. How many weeks is that? He could offer sheet a player per week. I love it.

 

[Eisen]

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 ****ing moron.

Perhaps he secretly works for the player's union. The contract was not horrible but certainly didn't have anything going the GM's way. Aho is pleased.

 

[Neuf]

If Jets get him on an Aho deal I'm listening

 

[Svechhammer]

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.

Canes were preparing to deal with a negotiation

Aho wanted it over

that's the difference. Could we have come to something close? Of course, the money probably would have been dead on at about $8.5m anyway, but we wanted more years and he wanted 5. So the OS did everyone a favor in just ending what would have become the stalemate before it even got to that point. In that regard, even though we didn't get exactly what we wanted, it still did us a favor by ending it now.

 

[super6646]

I love bergevin!!!

 

[Dale Best Goalie]

We are only allowed to offer sheet Finns, apparently

 

[SteadyFreddie]

Everyone knows you win in this league with picks and not 40 goal scoring wingers, right?

You don’t win with one dimensional “elite” scorers. Especially when they only score 50 points.

 

[Filthy Dangles]

Also idk why you can't offersheet another player while the picks from the other OS are 'froze'? Why wouldn't they just 'roll over' to the next year(s) until whatever happens with the prior Offer Sheet?

 

[waffledave]

Was well publicized that GMs with pending RFAs approached Waddell asking him to wait the full 7 days.

Doesn't really do much if the players decide to wait a few days for more leverage.

It's not like they have no choice here, they have to choose to sign whatever contract they sign. A few days of extra negotiating does nothing if it means you end up caving to the player and giving them more than you wanted to just to avoid a potential offer sheet.

 

[Frank Drebin]

I feel like some people here don't comprehend how much a billion dollars is, like 21 million means anything. It's the equivalent of me having $1,000 and giving you a 20.

I feel that you don't understand the context of me replying to a Carolina poster remarking about couch cushions. Relax

 

[Svechhammer]

I feel like some people here don't comprehend how much a billion dollars is, like 21 million means anything. It's the equivalent of me having $1,000 and giving you a 20.

Its of no use. 5,500+ comments in the other thread(s) and people still can't grasp this.

 

[8816 others]

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.

They would owe a 1st, 2nd, and a 3rd for Aho and if they offered Laine over 10.5 they would owe four 1sts in a row which can start in 2021 if they don't have their 1st in 2020 (which would go for Aho). So could they not offer sheet and acquire both at the same time in that case?

 

[Michoulicious]

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

Would be eveb better if they just gave about the same contract (11,6 x 5) than Matthews, basically saying he is worth AS MUCH as Matthews to THEM.

 

[TheKingSlayer]

You don’t win with one dimensional “elite” scorers. Especially when they only score 50 points.

Montreal loves those types of players. See Kovalev.

 

[Yoshidas Island]

I don't even know if its ruthless as much as chaotic. Some of his recent major moves have been great, some haven't, almost all have been aggressive and unpredictable.

I mean in this context I see it as equivalent.

 

[Anton Babchuk]

I feel like some people here don't comprehend how much a billion dollars is, like 21 million means anything. It's the equivalent of me having $1,000 and giving you a 20.

and it's not even a $21 million signing bonus. it's a $11.3m signing bonus this year and a $9.87m signing bonus next year. lol @ anyone who thinks a billionaire has trouble paying that, or that it's going to wreck the team's finances when aho's base salary is only 700k in both years.

 

[Svechhammer]

That is factually correct but it's just legal CBA mumble jumble until Canes pull the trigger. Right now Aho is a Hab. In my mind.

I don't actually believe that is correct. I believe, according to the CBA, he's still a Hurricane until the deadline passes without a match, at which point it moves over.

 

[Porter Stoutheart]

Laine was always the better one to chase --- if you actually want a chance at landing the player, anyway. But of course you're taking on some risk too. Laine isn't as safe as Aho. But just to be sure they probably ought to take it just a notch higher on a Laine offer sheet. Would the Jets match 5x$10M?

 

[jetsv2]

They would owe a 1st, 2nd, and a 3rd for Aho and if they offered Laine over 10.5 they would owe four 1sts in a row which can start in 2021 if they don't have their 1st in 2020 (which would go for Aho). So could they not offer sheet and acquire both at the same time in that case?

Yea that would work actually, i forgot that Aho was just below the cutoff for 2 firsts.

 

[strongcomp05]

Montreal loves those types of players. See Kovalev.

gives 1 example from last 20 years. cool