Confirmed Signing with Link: [PHI] Travis Sanheim signs (2 years $3.25M AAV)

[BarD2428]

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[JDs Straight Shot]

 

[hamzarocks]

Good deal should cash in in 2 years

 

[Hunter368]

Nice deal

 

[Boxscore]

Good deal should cash in in 2 years

Will cash in massively. At that point Niskanen and Braun both gone--money freed up.

Now we need to try to get Provorov on a 7 or 8 year deal that doesn't kill us.

 

[PitchNHL]

This is fletcher betting on the flyers to go all in these next two yrs

 

[Filthy Dangles]

Dumb. They should have locked him up long term now. The next contract is gonna be huge.

 

[Captain Mountain]

Real nice deal for now, but he's going to absolutely cash in in a couple of years.

 

[DRW204]

similar to Morrissey and Nurse last summer

 

[ponder719]

Dumb. They should have locked him up long term now. The next contract is gonna be huge.

I'd be shocked if the team wasn't pushing for a long term deal, but unless Sanheim has reason to believe he's going to injure himself badly, he almost certainly wouldn't want to take it.

 

[flyersfan018]

Ugh was hoping it was longer.

 

[StoneHands]

Good deal for both sides. I assumed one or both of Sanheim and Konecny would sign bridge deals. Hopefully Provorov and Konecny now sign for 5-8 years each.

 

[Dooble08]

Great for the Flyers. I was expecting around 5 million per season. But to sign him to a bridge deal is amazing. In 2 years we'll be through with Braun and Niskanen as well as the Seattle expansion draft.

 

[Boxscore]

Dumb. They should have locked him up long term now. The next contract is gonna be huge.

I'm sure Sanheim's people wanted a fortune to agree to lengthy term. I'm thinking the Flyers want to get their ducks in a row as much as possible by July 1st so they can see what else they can do. Plus, they'll probably need to concede on a Provorov deal.

 

[Starat327]

Of all the RFAs on the Flyers who should've been locked up with term, its Sanheim.

One more Fletcher negotiating failure to chalk up to the list.

 

[BlueBaron]

Dumb. They should have locked him up long term now. The next contract is gonna be huge.

There is an irony in your post. You assume it was an option and you would have done better?

I like the theory man, we would like all our guys locked up to 8 years to but reality is you need to be prepared for hold outs if you are going to be that inflexible which is a dangerous game with young players, and on a team presumably hoping to make the playoffs.

Your post implies there is only one side in the negotiations which is obviously not the case.

GM's make mistakes every day but never assume you understand the situation better than them, it comes off as...I'm sure you can think of a word.

 

[Flyotes]

Dumb. They should have locked him up long term now. The next contract is gonna be huge.

I suspect we get punished for this later.

 

[Uncle Scrooge]

Week ago i referred Brandon Montours contract as something Sanheim would likely sign. They both had 1 full, 30+ point season under their belts and had started to break into the top 4, however there's some uncertainty how good of a player are we talking about in the end.

Montour signed 2 years 3.387M AAV, so it ended up being pretty much the same deal.

 

[ImNeverWrong]

"Good deal but should cash in 2 years"

So it's not a good deal.

 

[Deadpool8812]

Dumb. They should have locked him up long term now. The next contract is gonna be huge.

And what if he didn't want to sign long-term right now?

 

[Curufinwe]

Of all the RFAs on the Flyers who should've been locked up with term, its Sanheim.

One more Fletcher negotiating failure to chalk up to the list.

You can't force players to sign deals they don't want to sign.

 

[StoneHands]

The expansion rules are always a little gray to me. Do RFAs need to be protected?

 

[wuf]

This is the bridge deal I expected, timing works out so that Niskanen will be gone. I think this is a safe signing by Fletcher, it would probably be difficult to sign him longer.
I would have been ecstatic if this was 4-5 years, but this will do.

 

[Filthy Dangles]

The expansion rules are always a little gray to me. Do RFAs need to be protected?

Exemption in Expansion draft has nothing to do with the Expiry Status of a contract. It's all about NHL experience/professional games. Sanheim already has 3 full pro years so he would have to be protected regardless of his expiry status.

And what if he didn't want to sign long-term right now?

For an extreme example, would he have taken a long-term deal like 8x8? Probably. There's a negotiation process. Fletcher seems to have caved, he had some time to work on a longer term deal.

 

[Funk21]

Good deal, personally I would have gone long term. They have the space and should have gone 6-8 IMO.

Congrats Philly fans!