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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
There's a couple problems with this method and why I don't think you'll ever see it work.
First, the players would have to have incentive to sign the contracts. If you're offering dollars in those two tiers, it's either at market value or close to it. Would Martin Jones as the example in the article sign for $2M? Not likely when the same offer it higher would come from LA. Would Dougie Hamilton sign for $5.5? No, when he could get that from Boston anyways.
Second, both Boston and LA are expecting and calculating signing these guys for market value anyways, so how would this change their position with regards to their roster plans? LA knows it needs dollars to sign Toffoli anyways, so how does an offer from another team significantly force anything? Their back is up against a wall to shed salary, an offer sheet at fair value doesn't change that.
In order to procure the good RFA talent, you'd have to over spend. On Toffoli, that's gonna take more than $4M anyways. Same for Hamilton or any of the other top RFA's.
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For the LA example
offer the max for the tier to Jones - $3.652 Mil
offer the max for the tier to Toffoli - $5.478 Mil
Would both players accept them? Possibly, more likely than the $2 mil and the $4 mil you have for both players there.
And if both do accept, LA will most likely match Toffoli, let go Jones assuming no other roster moves. The question there is do you want Jones for $3.6 mil and a 2nd rounder?
For the Boston example, you are essentially targeting Spooner since Boston is going to match up to $7 mil for Hamilton (apparently -
http://www.csnne.com/boston-bruins/o...hreat-hamilton)