LeBrun: Teams contacting Kyle Connor

[JetsFan815]

It only takes one team with space, though, Columbus still has $10.8M left.

Sure any one team can go crazy and offer 8.5x5 for for him however to do that the following things would have to be true:

* Team has enough capspace
* Team is comfortable overpaying Kyle Connor
* Team is okay discharging their offer sheet bullet for Connor over the other RFAs still unsigned many of whom can be considered of higher caliber than Connor
* Team has enough draft picks to render the offer sheet

Most of these 4 things are fairly low probability things independently on their own and the probability of all of them being true is even smaller therefore extremely unlikely.

 

[DudeWhereIsMakar]

Flames have to sign Matthew Tkachuk, if we offersheet Connor, they will offersheet Tkachuk. Which is entertaining but not worth it from a Flames perspective.

I feel like Ottawa should offer-sheet Matthew Tkachuk to reunite the brothers.

 

[Hunter368]

Merged two threads

 

[ManwithNoIdentity]

Just like with Trouba all you have to do is wait for him to reach FA and sign with you for free. Great plan!

I wasn't literally saying we have a chance of signing him or anything, just pointing it out!

 

[viper0220]

I feel like Ottawa should offer-sheet Matthew Tkachuk to reunite the brothers.

Ottawa is going to be a low seed, really not wise for them to do this.

 

[heilongjetsfan]

Then go ahead and do it

Exploring = Nonstory

You wanna see a non-story check out Dreger's piece on Maurice visiting Laine. 4 sentences and 2 of them were stats. I've literally written more here than he did.

 

[larmex99]

I wasn't literally saying we have a chance of signing him or anything, just pointing it out!

I get that. Just picking on Wings fans is all.

 

[heilongjetsfan]

Maybe this have been discussed but what if Team A offersheets Connor and Team B offersheets Laine. They both accept, Winnipeg doesn`t have room for both and no time to fix cap space if it is close to season or already in season.

Then we get ALL the draft picks. 4 years, 12 1sts? Sucks this year but we've still got a batch of prospects fighting to get into the lineup, so we'd have an ok chance at being a bubble team.

Ehlers - Scheifele - Roslovic
Vesalainen - Little - Wheeler
Perreault - Copp - Appleton
Lowry - Letestu - Lipon

Not ideal, especially that 4th, but I'm probably forgetting someone.

Even still, if there were two offersheets signed, I think we'd pick one to match.

 

[heilongjetsfan]

I think he'd be a great fit alongside Larkin and Mantha and that would let Bertuzzi do the dirty work on the 2nd line to free up Athanasiou. It would probably take north of $8.4 mil for the Jets to let him go though, yeah? Can't see the Wings giving up 2 firsts during a rebuild even if Connor could be worth it.

Connor is on record saying he wants a long term deal. Remember that for compensation, anything over 5 years still gets divided by 5. So if you sign him to 8x7, that's 56÷5, so the compensation is based on 11.2. If you think 2 1sts is steep, you're not going to like that scenario either.

 

[Kale Hulls]

A team should offer him 6.3 imo. He is for sure worth that.

 

[Kale Hulls]

A team should offer him 6.3 imo. He is for sure worth that and the picks.

 

[Kale Hulls]

Whoops can the mods fix that. Thanks.

 

[Daximus]

CBJ, Ottawa and Colorado are the only teams left that could really make a run at Connor without us matching. I would guaranteed take 2 firsts from Ottawa. CBJ I'd probably take it, Colorado not a chance.

 

[Daximus]

A team should offer him 6.3 imo. He is for sure worth that.

we'd match so quickly.

 

[Tasteless Beaver]

A team should offer him 6.3 imo. He is for sure worth that.

This would be the quickest match ever. I'll take him at 6.3 x any term without hesitation.

 

[kcin94]

A team should offer him 6.3 imo. He is for sure worth that.

If he would take a long term 6.3M deal, then he wouldn't still be an RFA.

 

[Kale Hulls]

This would be the quickest match ever. I'll take him at 6.3 x any term without hesitation.

I thought Winnipeg was close to thecap already

 

[Hunter368]

I thought Winnipeg was close to thecap already

Jets have 15.5 million available cap space.

Kulikov (4.3 million) & MP (4.1 million) could be traded if forced to.

 

[Kale Hulls]

Jets have 15.5 million available cap space.

My bad I know they have been shedding talent and I thought it was because they were at the cap.

 

[Just Linda]

I thought Winnipeg was close to thecap already

You can exceed by 10 percent until start of season

 

[Hunter368]

My bad I know they have been shedding talent and I thought it was because they were at the cap.

See my edit above, even more could be created if needed in a pinch.

 

[Just Linda]

My bad I know they have been shedding talent and I thought it was because they were at the cap.

They did, the needed the $15,450,836 cap they have to sign Connor and Laine

 

[SLAYER]

My bad I know they have been shedding talent and I thought it was because they were at the cap.

Only talent we shed was Trouba. Not overpaying Myers \ Chiarot is a blessing.

 

[48g90a138pts]

My bad I know they have been shedding talent and I thought it was because they were at the cap.

IMO, Cheveldayoff has done a exceptional job managing the cap for the Jets.

He's in a tough situation this offseason and earning his pay.

 

[Hunter368]

Only talent we shed was Trouba. Not overpaying Myers \ Chiarot is a blessing.

Correct.

Losing two #5 Dmen doesn't go by without noticing it........but signing both would of been brutally bad considering their contracts & play.