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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
I don't see anybody lining up to give Noah Hanifin $5.8M two months after he was traded for a guy with three 40 point seasons who makes $5.75.
Anything over $5 and I would look long and hard.
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Well that guy with three 40 point seasons would have cost a lot more than a 1st and a 3rd to get. Hanifin and Lindholm combined are exponentially more valued. I'm sure there's a lot of teams that would consider 5.8M if it meant getting Hanifin for the low cost of a 1st round pick. However, there's two things working against that. Number one is, I just don't see any team taking the risk when it comes with alienating a large number of GMs and the likelihood of the Flame just matching.
The second is that the team doesn't want to risk a high-cap hit, a first round pick+ and pissing off the other GMs for 5 years of Hanifin. If they were to offer 5.8M for 7 years, the actual compensation is two firsts, a second and a third round pick. There's a reason that the offer-sheet hasn't been used since 2013, and that took a holdout O'Reilly to sign one.