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Originally Posted by FireGilbert
I'm not sure if I'm more surprised at the lack of understanding of how offer sheets and RFA status works or the heat the Habs are receiving.
This is a brilliant move by Aho and the Habs to finally use an offer sheet the way they were intended. In the past offer sheets have only been to acquire a player you really want, damn the cap consequences. This resulted in screwing up the cap for RFAs and angering GMs.
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So instead of screwing up the cap for RFAs and angering GMs they screwed up the actual money for this RFA angering a GM. I guess babysteps?
The entire contract was centered around Carolina not being a have-team with the ability to spend to and beyond the cap. It's a team that has recently spent around 55M-60M a year now being forced to spend 23M on one player in 366 days, and, should their be a lockout, forced to pay him through that. This was not a contract that Carolina was at all thrilled to match. Especially when they gave away Lindholm and Hanifin because they weren't willing to cave into their contract demands, this was a hard pill to swallow if ultimately an obvious decision.