They don't have a choice with so many bad contracts eating up their cap space. Doesn't make a lot of sense to burn money/assets to get rid of Abdelkader or Nielsen either since they're not trying to win now. They also need to pay Mantha/Athanasiou after this year. There's a lot of money coming off the books for them after this season, though and they seem to be building a good prospect pool (although whiffing on the Rasmussen pick hurts).
What is this in reference to? The ESPY’s? I just looked up the award winners and holy fuck this “award show” has like 45 goddamn awards including WWE and bowling
Is there a limit on how many offer sheets a team can give out? Figure its mostly a matter of how much cap room you have and what other moves you want to make (like when everyone was making a big deal about Carolina taking all week to respond for Aho so Montreal couldn’t do anything since that was almost all their cap space)
Also it seems like the piece I didn’t see a lot of people talking about with Aho is that he signed that “awful offer sheet” that Montreal gave him. He didn’t have to do that. Allegedly Marner has turned down 2-3 that have been presented, but Aho signed his for Montreal. Makes me wonder what Carolina was offering or what he thought they would offer that he signed that (and so quickly too).
No other team probably offered him a chance to get to FA so quickly, canes probably wanted him on a longer deal. That just seems logical, if he waited he may have had less options.
The jets didn't really have a lot of choice on some of those. They had to make sure no one could take Laine and or Conner. They couldn't do that Hayes deal, they weren't gonna give tanev what the pens did, they tried to keep Myers but weren't gonna give him a fu deal, I'm not sure what's up with chiarot tbh and they weren't ever gonna be able to keep trouba.
It was more about term. Carolina was never going to give him five years (makes him a UFA at 25) and were trying to give him the max or a contract that bought up more UFA years. I also doubt they wanted to give him that much bonus money in the first two years & they've been in a pain in the ass to deal with in negotiations. It's a contract they can give out based on their cap situation, though so he probably just wanted a deal done without having to sit in negotiations all summer.
Jets are my #1 trade partner for the Sabres with Ristolainen right now. They really could use the RHD after losing Myers and Trouba. Buffalo has a little bit of cap space where they could afford to take on Mathieu Perreault's $4.125 mil hit for the next two seasons, and have an absolute plethora of bottom/middle 6 guys that could potentially capably replace his role for the Jets. Ristolainen, CJ Smith and a pick or something like that, whatever balances it out for Ehlers/Copp/Lowry and Perreault. Gimme gimme gimme
how do you propose you do that considering you need to use your own draft picks with the offer sheet? Unless you mean sign one, have WPG match then immediately sign the other one you can't sign them both simultaneously unless they are for different compensation amounts