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Originally Posted by jayswin
Unless of course one of the best up and comer centres in the league reaches July 1st without a contract and gets an offer sheet. He'll likely sign in time, but it's certainly not a non issue.
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With a stalled cap, almost nobody has the kind of space to offer the kind of money that would give the Flames pause. The Devils have the most cap space right now, but they also have only 11 NHL players under contract. Having $25 million in space looks great until you realize $20 million of it is going to be spent simply to fill out an NHL roster.
Also, fully 10 teams already don't have picks required to even make an offer sheet with the kind of money that would give the Flames pause.
IMO, the risk of Gaudreau suffering a career ending injury falling down the stairs is greater than the risk of his getting offer sheeted.