Offer sheeting is going to be hard for another team. AAV is divided by 5 so any talk of signing him to 7 years would have to be a low contract and as such the Leafs would just match. It would basically have to be no more than $5.5 over 7. Again the Leafs would love that contract. Anything over that would mean the team has to give the Leafs four 1st round picks. The Leafs take that probably no matter what team it is.
Edit. Forgot a part, any 5 year deal would have to be close to $8 for the Leafs to pause and even then the team that gets Nylander only gets him to his UFA as he is eligible in 5 years.
I don't know why people still consider offersheets as a threat. After Stamkos was an RFA with back to back 90+ point seasons and Rocket Richard's as a 20/21 year old, it was evident that GM's don't want to offersheet.
What contract would they offer?
If he was willing to take that deal would have been done months ago.It's okay if he misses the start of the season. Hope he signs sooner rather than later - but has to be at the right cap hit. I figure he's worth:
Year 1, 2: $4 Mil a year
Year 3, 4: $6 Mil a year
Year 5, 6: $7.5 Mil a year
Year 7, 8: $8 Mil a year
Total = $51 Mil over 8 years or $6.375 Mil cap hit. Front load that contract, make a lot of it signing bonus/lockout proof since the Leafs can afford it. If he doesn't want that deal then a bridge deal - 2 year $8 Mil or 4 years $20 Mil.
So if they offer 8 million for 7 years that would be 4 1st rounder because of how offersheets work.They would have to see him as a long term fixture at 2C. If so, they would try to stay under the $8.1M breakpoint where the compensation is 2 1sts, a 2nd, a 3rd. So $8M over max term is probably what they would be offering. Because Toronto is very likely to match this, and then turn around and offer sheet Heisk when he's an RFA, I think that Dallas is more likely to try to negotiate a trade for his rights than to straight up sign him to an offer sheet.
So if they offer 8 million for 7 years that would be 4 1st rounder because of how offersheets work.
You take the entire contract value and divide by 5 to get the dollar value used in the pick compensation. In this case the dollar value is 11.2 million.
This is why offersheets are so damn unlikely because a team would have to offer nylander like 8 million for 5 years which is a bad contract to give picks up to get.
Refer to bullet points: Offer Sheet Calculator - CapFriendly - NHL Salary Caps
I think paying Nylander 8 million dollars for 5 years is a really bad idea. That isn't far off Kucherov/Stamkos or Seguin/Benn money and is for 5 years instead of 8.I didn't know, thanks for pointing that out. Doesn't change much though, they would offer 5 instead of 7, if they chose to resort to the OS.
I think paying Nylander 8 million dollars for 5 years is a really bad idea. That isn't far off Kucherov/Stamkos or Seguin/Benn money and is for 5 years instead of 8.
If a team offered 8 million for 5 years and Willy accepted I think the leafs may not match it.
Sam Bennett the young RHD?? Sure!!Trade Nylander for Bennett. It’s obvious they both need a change of scenery