c_robio
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Would the Oilers match a $7.8 million offer sheet?
Yes they would
Would the Oilers match a $7.8 million offer sheet?
Takes two parties for an offersheet to get signed.
First, the Devils need to deem Draisaitl is worth offering nearly $10M long term. That is a lot of money to commit to any player. Not to mention the compensation they would need to give up. They need to be damn sure that Draisaitl is a franchise forward they can build around.
Second, Draisaitl needs to actually sign the offersheet. New Jersey can send whatever contract off to Draisaitl's agent that they want. But if he doesn't agree to sign it, it doesn't matter. That would mean agreeing to leave a team very clearly on the rise with the best 1-2 punch in the league outside of Crosby/Malkin and go play with the worst team in the East (no offense intended to the Devils). Not many players get the opportunity to spend their careers riding shotgun with a generational talent. McDavid and Draisaitl are very close friends and I imagine they both believe that the Oilers can be the next Penguins/Blackhawks. It's a lot to expect a player to give that opportunity up. Especially because it's not like the Oilers are going to cheap out on Draisaitl. They'll pay him his worth.
And finally, even if the Devils send an offersheet Draisaitl's way, and even if he signed it. The Oilers still have the opportunity to match it. It does the Devil's no good sending an offer sheet the Oilers way only to have it matched. Just burns a bridge that wouldn't need to be burned. For the Oilers not to match, the salary would have to be too high and the compensation would need to outweigh the cost of losing their 2nd best player. I really doubt two 1sts and a couple other picks would be enough for the Oilers to turn that contract down.
Not to say it couldn't happen. It certainly could. But if the past has shown us anything it's that offer sheets are almost never signed, and even when they are, they almost never go unmatched.
I think overall, just because he can be signed to an offer sheet, gives him lots of leverage. For example, Gaudreau couldn't sign an offer sheet and it really hurt his negotiation power.
I don't expect him to sign with anyone but the Oilers, but I do expect him to get paid.
Also, I'm moving to Edmonton next year for school! You guys excited or what?
is the goal to get more offer sheets? Those are some pretty low prices to be honest...
The total compensation being divided by 5 seems to indicate discouraging an OS. In most cases that 5 years on a 2nd contract takes the player right to UFA.
A GM & his $s guy would have to get pretty creative. Something like 9.8 x 4 bears the same compensation but leaves the team with 1 year of RFA rights. It does mean the player needs to be qualified @ the same amount but unless his play fell off a cliff or he's on LTIR if he's worth the 9.8 in year 4 he'd be qualified asap. If the 1st 3 years were as expected his extention would probably be signed the next July 1.
I am fairly certain that would be matched
Only way an offer sheet can work is you have to find a cap max team and give a guy a contract that will completely screw up their cap structure. I think a perfect example would have been to give Kucherov last year a 5 year 35M contract
I know but that's a lot of salary with McD. Leverage a plenty for Leon.
I've said this brfore....the secondary players are the ones you offersheet that would only cost a 2nd or 3td.
An example of this could be buffalo in a few years where they have Eichrl and reinhart under contract but they are near the cap and have 4 forward RFAS to sign but with only $5M in cap space. Some other GMs could come in and sign each one of them for max 3rd round comp levrl. Buffali can't match them all....this losing one for only a 3rd.
why these are realy the new numbers!? if so i could clearly see some offersheet being sent !
GMs hunting in packs?
i dont get your point?? yeah the total compensation is divided by 5 years, thats only to determine the final caphit to see in wich bracket the compensations picks are... if you offer a 7years deal its still gonna be 7 years. the fact that they removed 4x 1st and have a 2 first bracket that are very similar is realy bad for teams like Lightning who have alot of youth to sign and players actually worth 6.5Mish and worth giving a 1st +2nd...
The easiest option is just sign Leon before an offer sheet can even be extended to him from another team.
No reason to let it extend too long and by the sounds of it Chia has no business he wants to take care of before signing Connor and Leon.
The total compensation in the OS is divided by 5. So 9.8 x 7 (maximum for all teams but the 1 holding his rights) = 68.6 with 9.8 paid yearly.
But the total divided by 5 = 13.72 which means higher compensation. This was covered in many previous posts if you care to scroll back a bit
Well, $9.8 million is used as a number only because it's a random offersheet number. Except offersheets on high end young players are rarely, if ever, even offered or signed.