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Originally Posted by PepsiFree

Offer sheets can also come in the form of... an offer. That a player simply does or does not sign, because the agent in this case is doing the bulk of the work. Do you think players are sitting down with teams hammering out a contract? The agent’s job is to negotiate the deal based on what the player is looking for, when it comes to a viable offer, the player makes the call.

It’s the agent’s job to negotiate the best deal, and the player’s job to decide what’s right for him. An agent wouldn’t be doing his job if he didn’t negotiate a serious big offer from another team, but that doesn’t mean there’s any obligation or investment whatsoever on the player to sign it.



Considering you’ll never know what Montreal offered, you can go ahead and wait all you want.

What we know is that Point was Montreal’s first target, but Point wanted to stay in Tampa, so he did not sign the offer sheet. The report was not that it wasn’t enough, or that it did not appropriately factor in the tax implications. It was that he wanted to stay in Tampa.

That seems like enough evidence to suggest it happens.

This really just seems like a fruitless conversation though. A player preferring one team over another and taking less money to be on that team is not new. It’s not controversial. It’s not surprising or something that needs endless debate. What Point ends up signing for is completely irrelevant to the idea.

Or it was “enough” but not “enough to relocate to Montreal”.