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Originally Posted by Vinny01
Why don't the islanders sign Monahan to a $7M offer sheet for 4 years that takes him up to UFA at 25? I think teams avoid doing that stuff because all it really helps is the player and not the franchise. GM's do offer sheets when they think there is a chance a player will be cut loose not to screw with their fellow GM's. All offer sheets do is drive up the price for RFA's
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The compensation for a $7 Million contract is quite a bit more. $3.6 Million is an inflection point in which the compensation goes from being practically insignificant, to considerable.
RFA offers do drive up the cost of players, but this is a good thing since the Islanders are a budget team with an abundance of talent. It is a shame what Tavares and Hamonic are getting paid. It allows the NYI to have a higher concentration of good young players.
Also, a guy like Monahan is likely not that interested in signing an offer sheet because he's got a good thing in Calgary playing on the first line. Conversely, Strome would probably be very interested in going to another team, because on the NYI, he is buried behing some pretty well paid players on the right side.
Lastly, it's better to drive up the price of good RFA's, than fill out your roster by spending stupidly on UFA's like Raymond, Wideman and Engelland.