apparently Mike Futa who now contributes on Sportsnet was interviewed by the Devils for their GM job a few months back before they stuck with Fitzgerald he was on Sportsnet the other day and said that offer sheets were one of the things that the Devils ownership group talked about when they interviewed him if Fitz had balls, he would offer sheet Sergachev for $6.5 million AAV...there is no way Tampa could match that
The fact that no team has offered cernak 3-4m aav is just completely ridiculous but that’s the way it is. The league and its management have agreed to keep their athletes from getting fair salary for as much time as possible.
I’m honestly surprised that no one claimed Tyler Johnson. It’s not like 5m a year is a huge overpayment for that quality of player. A team like the Sens could use him
Even if TJ had an okay season, I’m not giving Tampa a bailout when they need to sign Cirelli & Cernak.
Didn’t know he had a no trade thing but makes sense that he would want to play with holtby and beagle again
CapFriendly said that 92% of the cap space league wide has already been used up (not including LTIR) some of these teams are going to be in trouble trying to move salary edit- just saw the above post