Marshall
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I'm trying to come up with a list of offer sheets that have been tendered in the last 10 years or so, and I'm only coming up with Kesler and Sakic -- which ones am I forgetting? Thanks.
They did but it was little different situation as Ohlund was an unsigned draft pick like Umberger.I'm pretty sure I heard Bill Watters on Leafs Lunch say that that Leafs made a contract offer for Mattias Ohlund, like the Flyers did for Kesler.
I think those are the only 2 restricted free agent offers ever made, and both happen to be against the Canucks.
Keith Tkachuk got a monster offer sheet right before the Jets were sold. It was front-end loaded so that the ownership group would have a hard time matching it but they did.
I think it was the Hawks that made the offer.
Edit: Here is an article: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9806E4D71539F937A35753C1A963958260
Funny how small that contract looks today, but at the time $6/m in the first year of the contract made him the third highest paid player in the league. The total contract was $17/m over 5 years.
That was 12 short years ago - and people laugh at the DiPietro contract... In 10 years, his $4.5/per will look like peanuts compared to other starting goalies.
Can someone refresh my memory as to how the Canes got Gary Roberts after his year off? Was it just a straight trade with Calgary or was it an offer sheet scenario?
Also, was Stu Grimson tendered an offer sheet when he went to Hartford (or maybe Anaheim)? I have a fuzzy memory that the Rangers tendered an offer to Grimson but lost out to another team.
Correct about Ohlund - he was a Group IV RFA.They did but it was little different situation as Ohlund was an unsigned draft pick like Umberger.
Quinn refused to pay the going rate for a first round pick (sound familiar) and dicked him around for two years (Ohlund had already starred in international competition and was hailed a sure fire top 2 guy on D in the NHL). In those days under the CBA some Euros had the opportunity to become Restricted Free Agents if the drafting team did not sign them or tender an adequate offer. Cliff Fletcher and the Maple Laffs moved in, upped the Canucks offer by about $7 million and Quinn was forced to sign Ohlund for that inflated figure or lose him.
That was 12 short years ago - and people laugh at the DiPietro contract... In 10 years, his $4.5/per will look like peanuts compared to other starting goalies.
People said the same thing about yashin, look how well that turned out.
People said the same thing about yashin, look how well that turned out.
Straight from newsdays article after the yashin signing 9/05/01
Both sides stressed the importance of commitment and
loyalty over the fact that Yashin, while well
compensated, never will be one of the league's
highest-paid players.
Sounds exactly like that. Fact is Diepetro is signed super long term as one of the highest paid goalies in the league, same as yashin signed long term for near the top of the salary scale in his day. But this is getting pretty off topic.