TSN: Dual Offer Sheets

[SuperMatt18]

Sharks kind of did it in 2010.

They offer sheeted Hjalmarsson.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/news/story?id=5366965

Which caused Chicago to have to walk from the Niemi arbitration offer and he then signed with San Jose.

[Street Pharmacist]

Originally Posted by mikephoen

I don't hate this idea. I doubt it works very often, and obviously you'll never get the 'top' guy in the dual offer sheet scenario. But if you actually want the other guy and are willing to pay a second for him...

Offer sheeting your closest rivals has other advantages as well. For example you can give Toffoli a contract offer that doesn't spend any of his UFA years and right at the top of the 1st and 3rd compensation level and cause LA future problems with resigning him. And if you want Jones for a 2nd, you will either get him, or give LA another problem to deal with. Doubt they want a back up making over 3M with their cap situation.

They could just offer a longer term and would nullify the offer, no?

[getbak]

Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist

They could just offer a longer term and would nullify the offer, no?

Once a player has signed an offer sheet, that will be his new contract. The only question is which of the two teams he'll be playing for.

Either his original team matches it and he stays there on the new contract, or his original teams takes the compensation and lets him go to the team that gave him the offer sheet.

[cannon7]

Anyone who thinks an RFA wouldn't sign an offer sheet at or above market value is not thinking things through. Signing an offer sheet effectively guarantees you that salary/term. It puts your team in the hot seat to match. Signing an offer sheet pretty much short circuits the whole negotiations process and gives the RFA a leg up -- which is why GMs hate them. You're also unlikely to get low-balled with an offer sheet as the team offering you it is taking a risk and wants to offer you a salary/term that they think the RFA rights owner won't match -- or a salary/term that will hamper the RFA rights owner if they do match.