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Originally Posted by ResAlien
An offer sheet to Monahan would be awesome. Either it's reasonable and the Flames match so we're done there or it's ridiculous and the Flames get like 4 first round picks.
And what team has the space for said offer sheet? It's not a worry. It will not happen. A contract will be agreed upon and everyone will move forward all happy holding hands and skipping through fields of daisies.
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You don't need to have the space today, you can clear it out later so anyone can make an offer.
I gotta disagree on it being awesome. Teams only sign offer sheets in two scenarios, to try and offer more than the original team wants/can fit with the legit goal of stealing the payer, or to screw over a rival cap wise.
Say a team misses Stamkos and goes crazy and offers him 8-8.5 mil a year. The Flames get two first rounders and some other lower picks, with no guarantee those firsts are anything more than picks in the 15-30 range. Terrible value for Monahan.
And if the Flames just match, they've lost 1.5 to 2 million in cap space going forward when market value for Monahan based on Barkov and Forsberg is clearly around 6 mil now.