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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
Who was the idiot the just over a week ago said offer sheets never work?
Oh yeah it was me
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Well, we still don't have a lot of proof that they do "work."
One could make the argument that they do not, since the vast majority of them end up being matched anyways, and the matching teams have not really suffered much for signing the players. In the only instance in the cap-era before today that a team opted to not match one could also reasonably make the argument that this, too, did not work. The Oilers didn't get any better as a result of signing Dustin Penner, and the return that Anaheim received for letting him go turned out to be unspectacular.
Time will tell how this turns out, but I suspect that Kotkaniemi will not be worth his contract in Carolina, and that the picks Montreal receives in return will amount to nearly nothing in the end.