Don't forget the Weber deal is a back diving contract signed prior to the new CBA.
It's really hard to make a 7-year contract be "too onerous" for a budget team. The new CBA even has rules on how much cash a player gets year-to-year (i.e. a specific percentage per year).
On top of that, compensation is determined by the average of the 5 highest earning years, not the AAV of the entire contract, so front-loading the deal means you likely are pumping yourself up to 4x 1st rounder compensation.
No matter how you slice it, offer sheets are dangerous business at the best of times. The ONLY teams that should be considering offer sheets are teams vying for the Cup wanting to hamstring a divisional rival.
The perfect example was San Jose offer sheeting Hjalmarsson so that Chicago would have to let Niemi his free agency, and San Jose scooped up the player they really wanted for free.
