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Originally Posted by Clever_Iggy
I'm on the fence, but there's such a small sample size of offer sheets, I don't know how much stock I'd put in that. Conversely, the Flames being absolutely garbage at the draft and never being bad enough to get a surefire franchise player, history shows we'd blow the 1st rounder anyways.  |
It actually should go without saying. This case is a little different since ROR and the Avs have a broken relationship, but system is designed such that you have to massively overpay to land an RFA because anything reasonable will be matched. O'Reilly is 22 years old. It is not likely he is ready to be a $6 million player next year while also being judged against whatever the first round pick turns out to be.
By definition, offer sheets carry a ridiculously high level of risk.