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Originally Posted by blankall
Apples and oranges. The Flames can afford to match whatever offer sheets are presented to them. Also, never said I'd pay Schroeder 3 mil. We're overpaying, in dollars, to acquire these guys at a discount, in assets. I don't know how that affects the price of our own RFAs. It no more affects the price of our own RFAs than picking up a UFA.
Listen, I'm not saying that an offer sheet is a certainty, but it's definitely something we should look at. It makes no sense to never look at offer sheets because trading picks for players didn't work out in the past. We aren't talking about acquiring 30+ year old vets. We're talking about players in their very early 20s.
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I was talking more about the inflationary effect that paying other teams' RFAs 2-3 times what they're worth could have on the Flames' own payroll.
Look at teams that have good contract situations. LA for instance doesn't give out NTCs. Their stars don't get them so no one else can demand one either. Or Chicago. Toews and Kane set the bar with $6.3M contracts and everyone else fell in line behind that. Detroit often talked about the "Lidstrom cap" and how it affected his teammates' asking price.
If Calgary starts handing out ridiculous contracts in an attempt to poach depth players from other teams they're going to be in tough in expecting any kind of discount from their homegrown players in the near future.