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- Flyfreaky

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Edit: DOH!

So we hear nothing about offer sheets from you Ek, now all of a sudden it's the new craze?
- The-O-G

My exact thoughts

4 firsts from MTL might not be that bad..

To think that Sather isnt thinking hard and long about Kane is very very silly.

If Stan Bowman doesn't have the balls to pull the trigger on a regular trade, how can he have the balls to screw Kevin Cheveldayoff (a former co-worker) with an offer sheet for Evander Kane?
- tenaciousdale

Plus, doesn't Winnipeg own the picks Chicago would need as compensation for an offersheet?

To think that Sather isnt thinking hard and long about Kane is very very silly.
- aecliptic

Of course that's what the job involves-thinking. But thinking and doing are two different things.

So if MTL offer-sheets Evander Kane, does WPG then offer-sheet PK Subban?

Plus, doesn't Winnipeg own the picks Chicago would need as compensation for an offersheet?
- 1970vintage

They own the 2nd and 3rd for next years draft from Oduya trade

So if MTL offer-sheets Evander Kane, does WPG then offer-sheet PK Subban?
- AlexF

Sure, if Subban wants to play in WPG? Or if Kane wants to play in MTL? Let's all realize that the player would have to want to play in the place he signs in. And let's recognize that Weber was hardly being forced to sign in Philly after he made quiet visits to New York & Detroit. Let's recognize that this is the player's choice before we freak out and feel like someone's about to snatch away our star RFA players at any moment.

All this talk of retaliation offer sheets is ridiculous. Nobody did it to edm for overpaying vanek, nobody's going to do it to phi.

So if MTL offer-sheets Evander Kane, does WPG then offer-sheet PK Subban?
- AlexF

Offer Sheetahpalooza

All this talk of retaliation offer sheets is ridiculous. Nobody did it to edm for overpaying vanek, nobody's going to do it to phi.
- twotoekenn

But there are GM's that won't deal with other GM's as a result unless its absolutely necesarry...

Eklund: Does a Team Saying "We Will Match Any Offer" Kill Offers? Kane?...
- Eklund

Yes, its a poker game. One big poker game.

Offer Sheetahpalooza
- eichiefs9

Interesting how defensive Flyer fans are getting here when we're not even discussing the Weber sheet.

Interesting how defensive Flyer fans are getting here when we're not even discussing the Weber sheet.
- AlexF

They are the only ones who think its not a Richard move. totally legal and within the clubs rights to offer sheet someone but the structure makes it an ass move. What goes around comes around and karma is a mother "f"er!

Agreed. Just spoke with a 'reliable' source and he is 'probably for sure maybe feels like' there is gonna be no offer sheets signed for 'some short or long or medium' amount of time. E318

PS updated my free agent chart based solely on random probabilities that I assign to each player being traded to 16 different teams.


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- SeeAitch

Epic. Nice join date!

Does a Team Saying "We Will Match Any Offer" Kill Offers?

Absolutely not. Its all a "Dog and Pony Show" when you have no idea what contract will be offered. There are some wacky GM's and Owners out there wandering around aimlessly in their NHL offices. Just dieing to spend money!

To bad our owner wasnt one of em.

I don't think the Hawks have the picks to offer sheet anyone.
- InvisibleOrange

They do if it is for a large amount requiring 4 first rounders. They cannot midrange offer him because of the traded draft picks.

I think Rangers will go hard at Kane if the Flyers land Weber, Gaborik will be out for a couple months to start the year and they won't have to give up any players to get him, just picks..........also expect the Pens to sign Kostitsyn or Sykora for a top 6 upgrade

Evander Kane to Montreal

Evander Kane to Montreal
- MontrealTheTime

I will eat my own shiit if that happens.... future one-two punch of Kane-Galchenyuk with Beaulieu feeding them from the back-end... Habs would have a bright future

Although legal, when it has the potential to do the kind of damage ti a franchise as this does it is not good for hockey as a whole.

If Nashville doesn't match the Flyers are scarey.
- Doogs

What damage?

Any team that offers Kane between 5.05 and 6.73 million (will be at least that for Winnipeg not to match) has to give up a 1st, a 2nd and a 3rd, but depending on the team that makes the offer, it may be worth it. The team has to add on another 1st if the offer is upwards of 6.73. Kane isn't worth that, but some owner might throw that much dough at him because of the time of year. The summer is madness. If I'm Montreal I definitely explore the option of signing him to an offer sheet worth 5.5-6.5 mil.

Does a Team Saying "We Will Match Any Offer" Kill Offers?

Absolutely not. Its all a "Dog and Pony Show" when you have no idea what contract will be offered. There are some wacky GM's and Owners out there wandering around aimlessly in their NHL offices. Just dieing to spend money!

To bad our owner wasnt one of em.
- SCLI

Cue the Wang lovers . "But we got Boyes for only 1 million and it's not Wang it's the building."

I will eat my own shiit if that happens.... future one-two punch of Kane-Galchenyuk with Beaulieu feeding them from the back-end... Habs would have a bright future
- kovalchukTML

They already do, but adding an offensive juggernaut like Kane would make it so much better. He's a great player who might push for a Sochi 2014 roster spot.