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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
I personally think there should be more offer sheets. I don't understand why more GM's use this as if you are a team without an elite center it is absolutely worth four 1st round picks to get that elite center for all of his prime years. These same GM's have absolutely no issues giving big term and money for the last few years of a UFA players prime and all of his decline years which to me is kind of dumb as the NHL seems to be the worst professional sport when it comes to paying top dollar for past performance.
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Simple...they don't work.
Unless you are wiling to way overpay what a guy is worth and lose draft picks for the privilege to do so, you aren't going to land him.
That's why this one was such a futile attempt. They clearly couldnt obtain Aho through trade because the cost would have been to exorbitant, so they tried to get him on the cheap thinking the canes couldn't pay 21 million in the space of a year. It was a really silly philosophy that has done nothing to help the Habs, established the (mostly reasonable) contract for the canes, and likely pissed off Waddell and a few others, all while tieing up that money and those draft picks for a week which could prevent them from doing something else with them.
In offer sheet world it's go huge or go home.