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Originally Posted by MrMike
4 first round picks? No I wouldn't be too bothered by that.
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The cutoff for four 1st round picks is $10,503,720, so nobody would ever offer that anyway.
I also think there’s a strong case that trading four future 1sts for any player, even McDavid, is not tenable. You’d have no ammunition for trades to help that player/team for the next four years.
It doesn’t work.
A shorter offer sheet either buys the Flames time, and sewers Tkachuk a bit since concerns about how his game will age aren’t going anywhere. It’s better that he cash in now vs when he’s 28 or 29, as Gaudreau just showed.
A long term offer sheet, up to $10,503,719, would be matched, since keeping the player is worth the extra $1M premium, just to show the league that we can, in fact, pay star players enough to play here.