Overpayment. Why not just take him to arbitration?
To a reasonable contract, sure. Flyers caved.Probably in hopes of signing him?
Overpayment. Why not just take him to arbitration?
Probably because the defense market is busted and he'd be making 5M+.
Sanheim is actually a good player despite that.
If they went to arbitration wouldn’t it be a one or two year deal anyways? I never understand people who criticize the teams in these situation for “walking the player to ufa”. If the player goes to arbitration they can force that all they want. The team doesn’t have leverage to force them to sign longer.
Man if they end up losing Sanheim in the future cause they got Ristolainen woof