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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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Seriously? If the Canes wanted to sign Aho for an eight year deal, the Habs just robbed them of three of those years and saddled them with $21M in bonuses in the process. This was totally a risk worth taking by the Habs.
If I'm an NHL GM, I'm making offer sheets to get my rivals top talent to UFA as soon and as expensively as possible.
Just hope no GM offer sheets Tkachuk to rob the Flames of UFA years. Definite risk if GMs are willing to play by the offer sheet rules.