Confirmed with Link: Lightning re-sign D Braydon Coburn (2 years, $1.7M AAV)

[DFC]

I dont doubt that he would sign one. Especially when a team is offering a major pay day. I know this is a business first but I do think there is loyalty and while that also comes with a price, the team/location comes into play as well. Lets also not forget the "tax advantage" everybody loves to talk about. SY would need to offer something we just couldnt do. I think anything above 11 may have our guys questioning it. They certainly could do it with all the cap space they have. However, I would be surprised if SY did it honestly.

SY is the ultimate competitor, which means he can be pretty cut throat. I think that's what makes him such a good GM--he'll make the best decision to help his team win, even when the optics are horrible.

I'm afraid of an offer sheet in Point's case because I think teams know we'll match anything. So some team in the Atlantic can swing by, offer 12m, and suddenly our "everybody takes a little less" philosophy is ****ed. Or we don't match, and they overpay for the prime years of a franchise C, which isn't exactly the worst thing in the world.

I don't know. This one worries me more than Kucherov, both because of the comments/rumors floating around the league on offer sheets becoming a thing, but also because Kuch's first RFA contract came when he wasn't really a guy people were looking at like a cornerstone player (he'd just come off 65 points, but hadn't quite exploded yet). Point, meanwhile, is not just a great player, but also pretty much the perfect "face of a franchise" type player. He could set any bad organization in the league on the right track.

 

[CupsOverCash]

SY is the ultimate competitor, which means he can be pretty cut throat. I think that's what makes him such a good GM--he'll make the best decision to help his team win, even when the optics are horrible.

I'm afraid of an offer sheet in Point's case because I think teams know we'll match anything. So some team in the Atlantic can swing by, offer 12m, and suddenly our "everybody takes a little less" philosophy is ****ed. Or we don't match, and they overpay for the prime years of a franchise C, which isn't exactly the worst thing in the world.

I don't know. This one worries me more than Kucherov, both because of the comments/rumors floating around the league on offer sheets becoming a thing, but also because Kuch's first RFA contract came when he wasn't really a guy people were looking at like a cornerstone player (he'd just come off 65 points, but hadn't quite exploded yet). Point, meanwhile, is not just a great player, but also pretty much the perfect "face of a franchise" type player. He could set any bad organization in the league on the right track.

I think I'm more so in the ask me when he is offer sheet eligible. When that day comes then I think the fear of an offer sheet grows exponentially. I just have a feeling we get it done soon and avoid that. Also saw this. Not that it really means anything.

 

[ccman68]

Say for example that you trade Point to the Avs for Jost, Girard and Timmins and a secondrounder. Then you have a bunch of underpaid players on the roster: Cirelli, Joseph, Jost, Sergachev, Cernak, Vasilevski. Plus cap space (no Point) to sign Stralman, Erne and Paquette plus a UFA forward. A killer defense. Callahan can then walk in silence not demanding an asset to be traded in a package to get rid of him. Plus time to plan for a trade of another (expensive) forward.
Lot's of dynamic effects here.

Mackinnon or no deal.