Daniel wrote:FLPensFan wrote:KG wrote:Browsing over the RFA list. Wish the NHL would get out of this archaic mindset that RFA's are off limits to other teams. Offer sheets are fun. The 7 day to match or pass, the compensation. The potential bad blood created.
It's just weird that it's viewed as a personal slight if a team tries to sign another teams RFA. It is a two-way street as the player negotiated the deal in good faith.
I remember when the Blues sent an offer sheet to McSorley in LA. LA matched and traded him to the Pens for McEachern. That made by summer. I got a McSorley Pens jersey and wore it proudly in high school lol.
It just takes a group of GMs to start the trend of putting out offer sheets. Hopefully as we get some of the old guard out of those positions, more teams will utilize them.
Anyone in particular you would love to see us offer sheet...if we had the required picks?
I think the compensation is too high to do offer sheets. Look at the NFL. Lamar Jackson can sign a $50M/year contract and the Ravens get 2 1st round picks. He’s still young enough that the compensation is pretty fair. NHL would be 4 draft picks for a top end talent.
Draft picks are good trade deadline commodities and wasting them to sign a top talent isn’t worth it to most NHL teams.
While I think the personal slight is absolutely part of it, lessen the compensation and I think we see more offer sheets.
I think the compensation was altered several years ago. I think at one point, offer sheeting an elite level player was 5 1st round picks?
Right now, according to CapFriendly, the highest RFA compensation is 4 first round picks, and you have to offer that player over 10.5M a year. 8.4M to 10.5M, it's 2 1sts, a 2nd, and a 3rd.
Just think if the Penguins didn't trade away their picks, and instead offer sheeted say Brayden Point a few years back, maybe 3 years ago. 6.75M salary for 3 years at the time...let's say we offered 7.5M to try and pressure Tampa's cap. Would have cost us a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. The first wasn't a lottery pick. Those 3 years, Brayden Point was 10 points shy of a point per game player. He had 25, 23, and 28 goals those 3 seasons.
That's not a big cost to acquire at all.