When has an offer sheet for a player that hasn't shown out yet worked out though? To make it worthwhile, it's going to have to be multiple years in the $3-4M range for a guy with 1200 mins of NHL experience (none of which have been all that impressive).
To be clear, I'm operating under the assumption that the Sharks do this if:
They could even add on a 3rd year to the deal which wouldn’t impact the Sharks cap much since they are unlikely to need the space before Smith and Celebrini’s second contract.
I don't think you'd have to offer 4.2 to get Broberg if you really wanted him. They're over the cap and need to sign Holloway and Broberg. They have some smaller contracts they can try to jettison but then they'd need bodies. If you really want to screw them over, it'd be doing something like offer sheet both of them and rob them of a prospect or take Kulak and/or Henrique off their hands. I'd actually be pretty interested in Kulak. He's 30 with 2 yrs on his contract and he has a solid track record as a 2 way bottom 4 d-man.
He didn't acquire McDavid and Adam Fox for table scraps. He's lucky he didn't get a C.
I find articles that assign grades right after something happens (a draft, free agency, etc.) to be mostly worthless. Time ultimately shows who made good decisions and who didn't. It's just clickbait to me.
I'm guessing not getting a puck-moving RHD is dragging down his ranking.
They're perfectly entitled to write whatever they want to write, just as I am entitled to not care about those type of articles.
Interesting, seems to me that he may be 90% done outside of adding a veteran defenseman and maybe trading someone to clear a logjam. What makes you say that?
Last I checked 90% done doesn’t mean 100% done.
Touché lolLast I checked 90% done doesn’t mean 100% done.
I think it’s exactly as you said. I think we’ll trade for a D (I still think someone like Fabbro, TVR, or Whitecloud will shake loose from cap-strapped teams), maybe move a depth guy for roster space, and acquire a depth goalie.
I mean for the overall league perspective as it relates to next season (how these things are usually evaluated), it's a solid B to B+ because we still have the worst defensive group in the league but have a much better forward group and cap space without handing out any absurd contracts.
Not many of those guys left out there. Teams clearing out money have to have an avenue to spend that newfound money if they're giving up assets to clear it. Most of the UFAs that are going to bring in significant AAVs are all gone which means that outside of a trade, teams don't have a lot more need for cap space as we sit here on 7/11 (unless it's someone like Edmonton that can't sign their RFAs because of cap issues).
I just read them see different opinions, and I’m by no means a Grier guy yet and even I thought he had a great draft and at the very least a good early July that compared to other teams warranted an A grade
Interesting POV im looking at in the sense of great draft, mostly solid to good pick ups via trade and UFA. Long term future view vs next season because we all know it’s only going to be marginally better.
Most of these offseason grades do not include the draft in their process since they already get clicks from draft grades.
Last I checked 90% done doesn’t mean 100% done.
