Confirmed Signing with Link: CAR to Match MTL's Offer Sheet for Sebastian Aho (5 years, $8.454M AAV) - Pt. 5 | Mod Note in OP

[Blueline Bomber]

The REAL offer sheet was the friends we made along the way.

 

[Finlandia WOAT]

The fact he signed an OS that a majority of people consider to be on the lower end of the range signifies that he was actualy willing to leave,

Why?

 

[Svechhammer]

Why?

Because of the obvious reasons, of course

 

[malton]

Montreal fans are mad because they didn't get the guy they deserved to get from the undeserving team. Canes fans are feisty because Habs fans declared the team unable to match because of the up front money and then try to talk about how damaging it is for the Canes to match. Then there is the "Canes lowballed Aho and got what they deserved" when it was all a bargaining process. Don't forget MB's claim that Aho absolutely wanted to play in Montreal and he'll be there in 5 years. Aho's agent just got tired of the back and forth and found another way to get his client the contract he wanted.

Canes management probably learned a lesson on negotiating with a high profile RFA that wants a shorter than 8 year deal. Was it worth taking the hard line stance on 8 years if they weren't going to overpay? I don't think so. It cost them money up front, but not in the long run. Aho gets paid, and early thanks to the offer sheet terms. It's business folks. We take the fandom a lot more seriously than the players do.

It's all posturing from the GM's and the owners. MB took a swing and missed. Or he checked his swing and still got punched out. Either way, people shouldn't be slandering each other over this. We should all be happy that an offer sheet was actually submitted.

 

[sheriff bart]

It's all posturing from the GM's and the owners. MB took a swing and missed. Or he checked his swing and still got punched out. Either way, people shouldn't be slandering each other over this. We should all be happy that an offer sheet was actually submitted.

I certainly don't get all the angst.

 

[Price is Wright]

Because, you are likely to lose him by age 26 for nothing.

How is it likely? It's five seasons from now. Why would he leave if the team is competitive?

Players are demanding five year deals for career control. Not because they hate their teams. Does Matthews hate the Leafs? No, he just wants to be able to control his fate as an unrestricted free agent sooner instead of giving up years, which used to be the standard.

If you think the five year demands are out of wanting to leave organizations and not player freedom, you're going to spend a lot of time shocked when a lot of these kids re-sign.

 

[ohmyjlord]

Given your division, I wouldn't go pencilling yourselves into the mid to late first round pick quite yet

We had the 15th pick, without Aho. You think adding Aho to the line-up would've made us drop in the top-10 ?

 

[NinjaKick]

before this offersheet the Canes wanted Aho for 8 years... Aho wanted 5... it's possible they could have settled on 6 or 7 years... So because of this offersheet the Canes lost out on 1 or 2 years with Aho .. and they have to pay top dollar...
Montreal has nothing to lose... no repercussions from this... so I wouldn't be surprised if they have something else up their sleeve