History says you're right. Human nature says you're wrong. Offer sheets haven't worked because the perceived cost was prohibitive. Nobody wants to lose multiple 1st rounds; nobody wants to piss off other GMs; everybody assumes the price will be matched. However offer sheets are still there, waiting patiently in the rulebook, like a power-tool sitting in the garage that your dad bought but was never used because everybody's afraid to switch it on and make a mess. But if the rule is there long enough, somebody will use it. Eventually. Some GM whose team is already in a mess is going to switch on the power-tool in a desperate bid to fix things. He'll have been burned by 1st round picks often enough to sacrifice the draft crapshoot in favour of an established star. He won't be part of the bro-GM club. He'll see the PR benefits for his market outweighing the mess among his fellow GMs. Fans will love the idea of their aggressive, win-at-all-cost GM chasing a superstar.Offer sheets don't exist.
No matter how man times this comes up, they simply don't happen.
It's just a waste of time.History says you're right. Human nature says you're wrong. Offer sheets haven't worked because the perceived cost was prohibitive. Nobody wants to lose multiple 1st rounds; nobody wants to piss off other GMs; everybody assumes the price will be matched. However offer sheets are still there, waiting patiently in the rulebook, like a power-tool sitting in the garage that your dad bought but was never used because everybody's afraid to switch it on and make a mess. But if the rule is there long enough, somebody will use it. Eventually. Some GM whose team is already in a mess is going to switch on the power-tool in a desperate bid to fix things. He'll have been burned by 1st round picks often enough to sacrifice the draft crapshoot in favour of an established star. He won't be part of the bro-GM club. He'll see the PR benefits for his market outweighing the mess among his fellow GMs. Fans will love the idea of their aggressive, win-at-all-cost GM chasing a superstar.
It'll only take one guy timing it right for the dam to break. Or else the offer-sheet option will disappear. One of the two. Because right now it's a power-tool gathering dust. Either they'll close the option in the next CBA or make it more practical. Right now it's sitting there like a dare.
I agree, based on precedent it won't happen. And it's certainly possible that offer sheets pass through the next CBA without much attention, like a minefield nobody wants to get near. But circumstances keep changing. Salaries are becoming more top-heavy, teams are locking their stars up earlier for bigger contracts. The cap structure isn't the same careful balancing act it was a decade ago. It's becoming an uneven, wobbly house of cards. It's starting to look like one of those history lessons where the empire is complacent and stretched too far, leaving their flank open for the Visigoths to pierce their defences.It's just a waste of time.
There's been 2 (I believe) since the salary cap came in. Edmonton with Penner and it didn't work out for them. Ya, they got the player but it turned out to be a bad move.
Philly with Weber and they didn't get him anyway.
I just don't see it.
Same as every other thread on here, but yet, here we are lolSame discussion every season; then nothing happens.
It's just a waste of time.
There's been 2 (I believe) since the salary cap came in. Edmonton with Penner and it didn't work out for them. Ya, they got the player but it turned out to be a bad move.
Philly with Weber and they didn't get him anyway.
I just don't see it.
Gonna be Dubas's real test. See how he manages those pieces and how the team will be once those contracts are done or some of them traded to fill holes.
Offer sheets don't exist.
No matter how man times this comes up, they simply don't happen.
Dubas is probably praying for a long long run this post season.
Isn't that exactly what collusion is?Maybe it's just a unwritten agreement, one that held for a time in the past until some went astray and might've been re-stated, agreed by all of them.
Isn't that exactly what collusion is?
With all the outstanding young RFA's potentially becoming available after this year and the precedent Nylander has set for them by sitting out this year waiting for the contract he thinks he deserves, what are the odds we see an offer sheet next year. Most of the old guard GM's are gone and the "code" towards not stealing other teams players isn't as prevalent. We have a good chunk of cap space....just curious to others thoughts on this subject.
There are some massive names out there.
FORWARDS
Auston Matthews, C, TOR
Patrik Laine, RW, WPG
Mitchell Marner, RW, TOR
Sebastian Aho, C, CAR
Mikko Rantanen, RW, COL
Matthew Tkachuk, LW, CGY
Brock Boeser, RW, VAN
William Karlsson, C, VGK
Kyle Connor, LW, WPG
Brayden Point, C, TBL
Teuvo Teravainen, LW, CAR
Jake Guentzel, LW, PIT
Timo Meier, LW/RW, SJS
Travis Konecny, RW, PHI
Nick Schmaltz, C, CHI
Kevin Fiala, LW, NSH
Anthony Beauvillier, LW, NYI
Pavel Buchnevich, RW, NYR
Andre Burakovsky, LW/RW, WSH
DEFENSEMEN
Charlie McAvoy, D, BOS
Zach Werenski, D, CBJ
Ivan Provorov, D, PHI
Will Butcher, D, NJD
Jacob Trouba, D, WPG
Nikita Zadorov, D, COL
Esa Lindell, D, DAL
Neal Pionk, D, NYR
@Runner77 tapping in to his inner Ron MacLean.
Kapanen would be a good target. Offer sheets to franchise players will just be matched (Matthews, Marner, Laine, etc.) but they can't keep them all.Price is still really high for massive contracts. It may end up that a player like Kapanen gets offer sheeted over M&M. A team gives him $4m and that's only a 2nd round pick. $5m is a 1st and a 3rd. Can't see the Leafs being able to match that with contracts to M & M looming.
Doubt it, it doesnt really make sense to offer sheet second liners, especially a winger, its way easier to draft than a franchise center like Matthews, such players are seen half a decade, thats why its worth going for it, you dont want become an ennemi from your peers unless its really worth it...Price is still really high for massive contracts. It may end up that a player like Kapanen gets offer sheeted over M&M. A team gives him $4m and that's only a 2nd round pick. $5m is a 1st and a 3rd. Can't see the Leafs being able to match that with contracts to M & M looming.