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Originally Posted by Jay Random
No, that's not my argument at all. The numbers, in particular, you made up yourself.
My argument is that you don't spend the money on a player who isn't worth that salary. Every GM knows just how quickly cap space can run out if you start overpaying players. Remember when Treliving was overpaying guys, and it didn't matter because the team was rebuilding? Oops.
To overpay a player and give up an asset for the right to do so is foolish – which is why offer sheets are so very rare.
At this point, I'm not positive either Holloway or Broberg is worth an early 2nd-round pick straight up. (Don't talk about their draft position. That's water under the bridge, and besides, they were drafted and developed by the Oilers, who are not good at either of those things.) They certainly haven't done anything to earn a salary in the range where a 2nd would be the compensation.
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Fine, take all Oilers players out of the discussion. I am just saying the concept it is bad is baffling to me. I will list a couple players, just want to confirm that you actually think the correct answer is no on all these players because of the concern about using too much cap space and wrecking your future salary structure.
New Jersey Devils - currently have 4.9 million in cap space and have to sign 3 players. Also have no players of significant cap value dropping off their balance sheet in the next two years and they have to sign Hughes and Nemec to big deals.
offer sheet Dawson Mercer a 2 year deal worth 9 million. 3.5 million in year one, 5.5 million in year two. Qualifying offer in year two when they have to sign Nemec would be 5.5 million or he walks to UfA. Cost to the Flames - a high second round pick.
That is an offer the Devils would have to think about, I suspect Dawson Mercer is worth a lot more than a 2025 2nd round pick. He is 23 for this upcoming year.
Your position is that it does not make sense because you have to give up both a 2nd rounder and you think 4.5 million a year is an overpay for a current 22 year old who has put up back to back 20 goal seasons?
To a lesser extent because the teams are not in the same salary cap crunch you could go after Schneider and Perfetti with the same type of contract.