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Originally Posted by getbak
You give a guy an offer sheet to mess up the other team's salary structure not because you actually expect to get the player.
Giving out an offer sheet that's so bad the other team won't match it is just bad cap management.
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Or, you’re killing two birds with one stone:
A) Vancouver will have to sign the OS to retain Pettersson, causing them to lose a lot of much needed cap space and probably paying 33% more than what they wanted to Pettersson. Like someone said, if they wanted to sign Pettersson to 10m it would be for 8 years.
B) 5 years of a player we got only at the cost of 2 1sts + 2nd + 3rd. That’s cheaper than Eichel. We already have a 2nd from Florida and a 3rd from Toronto in 2022, we can grab the 1st by trading Monahan elsewhere. Roll with Pettersson/Lindholm as your 1/2 punch.
Sure, it’s overpayment for Pettersson, but it would be nice to have a 5 year window with him. We really need to go all in next year before Gaudreau and Tkachuk need new deals, and then a couple years after Lindholm and Hanifin. It would be the only 8 digit contract we have. It can probably be a little bit lower AAV than 10m but I think Vancouver matches anything under. Gotta make it hurt if they are matching it.