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Originally Posted by transplant99
OK....name me someone/something that Montreal could offer that would allow Carolina to walk away from their 21 yo franchise center who is now locked in for 5 years at a reasonable price? Sure the 21M in the next year hurts, but it is not anything insurmountable for any owner in the league. If it was, he wouldnt be owning the team to begin with.
I mean...just use some logic here.
This was a stupid offer sheet....if they wanted to trade for the player then thats what they should have attempted to do. Offer up your next 20 1st rounders or a share of ownership in a brewery...or whatever. Hell...maybe they did try and trade for him and were told no...if so, that makes this effort in futility even more asinine.
This was an attempt to get the player on the cheap, hence the dollar and compensation amount that was included...and there isnt a team in the league that wouldnt have matched.
Again...it was a useless exercise at best to put forth what came out.
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OK I will use some logic. Logic tells me that very, very few players are totally untouchable. Sebastian Aho is probably not one of them. The 1st, 2nd and 3rd weren't going to get it done and if you go back and read my post, I suggested that if Montreal were serious about acquiring him, they would look to sweeten the compensation.
This was in essence an attempt to trade for Aho and the front loaded offer sheet was an element to that.
I'm not saying it would have happened, just that it was a course of action available to Montreal.
As SN said, we simply don't know what it would have taken, if anything.