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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
You’re backtracking. Your initial statement that he would only sign an offer sheet that the Flames would match. In your example, Aho turns down a $10.5 million dollar offer from Montreal.
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And we’ll never know if that was true or not, since he was not offered a 10.5 million dollar contract.
Just look at reports around the Braydon Point situation. Montreal wanted to give him an offer sheet, and he passed because he wants to stay in Tampa, despite the fact that Montreal can obviously offer more than Tampa can right now.
Why is this hard to understand? Some RFA players like the team they’re on, and want to stay on that team, and will decline offer sheets that likely trigger their departure from that team.
This is not a new or unique thing. It’s significantly more common than player’s actually signing offer sheets.