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Originally Posted by transplant99
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.
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Montreal's attempt is IMO an example of how not to make an offer sheet. As I said earlier they went full Kijiji buyer trying to get him on the cheap when a more reasonable offer at or above $9 million a season and 2 x 1st round picks may have got the job done. I don't know why they didn't do that considering they haven't been hitting home runs in the draft. I wouldn't give up three or four 1st round picks for Aho but two is pretty reasonable IMO. Not sure why a team hasn't put in an offer for Marner as I think he's worth four 1st rounders as there simply aren't a lot of 22 year old players coming off 90+ point seasons and if you have the opportunity you should take it.