I realize that it is part of the CBA and is allowed under the current rules, but I cringe every time I hear an offer sheet has been signed. It just feels dirty. It is an opportunity for one team/GM to screw another and hard. I don't like it at all.

If a team really would match any offer for a player, the player would have probably already have been signed to a deal.
- flyler

This.

I realize that it is part of the CBA and is allowed under the current rules, but I cringe every time I hear an offer sheet has been signed. It just feels dirty. It is an opportunity for one team/GM to screw another and hard. I don't like it at all.
- rynoisgod

I'd like to agree with that, and I try...but honestly offer sheets excite the hell out of me, the league seems to static these days.

I'd like to agree with that, and I try...but honestly offer sheets excite the hell out of me, the league seems to static these days.
- Junot_51

Agreed. And if you are serious about wanting to win, why not try to take advantage of every opportunity that you have available?

Agreed. And if you are serious about wanting to win, why not try to take advantage of every opportunity that you have available?
- rmiethaner

Sup my Buffalo Stag?

Sup my Buffalo Stag?
- Flyfreaky

Not much. Glad that Philly finally made the off season interesting. I hope you get him and Philly will instantly become the most interesting team of the league with the Bryz factor...

All this talk about offer sheets has got me thinking... You know who should spend every offseason throwing out offer sheets? The Blue Jackets. Why? Because if they get all these players, all it costs is some draft picks. That doesn't matter to the Blue Jackets because they suck at drafting.

If I were Columbus, I'd totally take a crack at Evander Kane. If the Jets match, no big deal. It doesn't even matter if they try to give an offer sheet to one of the Blue Jackets' players because, again, none of their young players are even worth holding on to.

Not much. Glad that Philly finally made the off season interesting. I hope you get him and Philly will instantly become the most interesting team of the league with the Bryz factor...
- rmiethaner

Yeah, more teams need to grow a pair and make some bold moves...

Yeah, more teams need to grow a pair and make some bold moves...
- Flyfreaky

hey man, que pasa?

hey man, que pasa?
- RealityChecker

Hey Bro, how've you been?

Hey Bro, how've you been?
- Flyfreaky

not too bad. just stepped in here for a min before heading out.

just wanted to say that i love the signing by homer. i posted yesterday but i'm amazed at the job he's done in the last year. he totally re-invented a contender in 12 months and made them even stronger (based on if weber gets there).

screw all the crying, it was a great move!

not too bad. just stepped in here for a min before heading out.

just wanted to say that i love the signing by homer. i posted yesterday but i'm amazed at the job he's done in the last year. he totally re-invented a contender in 12 months and made them even stronger (based on if weber gets there).

screw all the crying, it was a great move!
- RealityChecker

I knew you'd be the voice of reason dealing with this issue...

Gillis Give an Offer Sheet to Kane!!

Gillis Give an Offer Sheet to Kane!!
- Canuckfan2006

First trade Lu...

I came across an interesting article about Doan. Thought I might share it here...


Coyotes' Doan Fears Buffalo 'Stalker-Blogger'

It was as if things couldn't get worse.

Phoenix Coyotes' star winger and highly sought-after UFA Shane Doan had just checked his email when he gasped for breath.

"Another one," he said. "Jesus - will this guy ever stop?"

The hard-hitting hockey player is no stranger to brawls on the ice and has a reputation around the NHL as one of the game's toughest players, but when it comes to stalker bloggers, "I just get scared - this is something a referee won't come in and break-up," Doan said.

"I mean, I haven't even talked to (Buffalo Sabres General Manager) Darcy Regier yet - I think he sent a fax, but he definitely didn't call," Doan said as he clutched a blankie and looked side-to-side anxiously. "But this blogger guy - Garf or something - has already written 12,340 blogs about me. I mean, I'm half expecting this hoser to start writing about what floss I use and how old I was when I stopped wetting the bed."

"Not that I ever wet the bed," Doan added. "But this guy might write something like that, know what I mean?"

When asked if Doan would consider joining the Sabres despite blogger eyes perpetually staring at him, the current captain of the Coyotes expressed reservation.

"You have to understand that I've been playing in Phoenix for years and over there, the closest to a hockey blogger they have is Steve Nash when he texts his girlfriend," Doan said. "There's no hockey and no blogging involved, but he's Canadian and he's typing - so that's the closest we have to a hockey blogger. And now he's in LA, so there's that."

Not being stalked by obsessive bloggers was a positive quality, according to Doan.

"There's nothing wrong with anonymity," Doan said. "I can walk around Phoenix with my jersey on and the only person who will recognize me is maybe a lost, drunk Canadian tourist. But if this blogger is any indication of what Buffalo fans are like, I'm imagining an entire city of lost, drunk Canadian tourists who follow me home, camp in my front yard, and steal my dog's poop for souvenirs."

Doan added: "You know what? As a matter of fact, there was a guy who did that last year - and I think the cops said his name was Garf or whatever and he was from somewhere near Buffalo."

The rugged winger immediately got on his phone and called his agent to instruct him to never, ever schedule a meeting with anybody from Buffalo. Ever.
- rayzablades2

I knew you'd be the voice of reason dealing with this issue...
- Flyfreaky

i don't understand some of the comments about this signing. philly wants to win so they used whatever advantage they had. boo hoo, suck it up buttercup.

Not much. Glad that Philly finally made the off season interesting. I hope you get him and Philly will instantly become the most interesting team of the league with the Bryz factor...
- rmiethaner

If that D can shots against down to 6 a game, that team is going to be hard to beat

[quote=rmiethaner]


Were they in French?

i don't understand some of the comments about this signing. philly wants to win so they used whatever advantage they had. boo hoo, suck it up buttercup.
- RealityChecker

More teams need to jump in and make some noise...Take some chances, shake things up...

More teams need to jump in and make some noise...Take some chances, shake things up...
- Flyfreaky

isn't this the "summer of trade?"

almost as exciting as the "witching hour."

anyway, i'm out take it easy.

More teams need to jump in and make some noise...Take some chances, shake things up...
- Flyfreaky

Buffalo will never do that because their GM was pissed about the Vanek offer sheet. Oh well, so much for trying to win.

More teams need to jump in and make some noise...Take some chances, shake things up...
- Flyfreaky

A couple of things.
1. Most offer sheets get matched anyway so there's not point to giving them out.
2. The only way you can get a player through an offer sheet is if the contract is so ridiculous they other team won't match or if the original team is in a weird situation where they either have no cap room or no money. Nashville is the latter. Anaheim was the former in 2007 when they lost Dustin Penner to an offer sheet.

More teams need to jump in and make some noise...Take some chances, shake things up...
- Flyfreaky

talking about shaking things up

talking about shaking things up
- dmarsden2988

Loving her facial expression.

Subban negotiations are going fine and he's going to sign soon. Gomez and Kaberle will be dealt with, but Bergevin can do that anytime before October. They have as good a chance as any team to offer sheet Kane.
- MontrealTheTime

Sure they will kid. Are you actually a leaf fan?