a Laine Trade

I think you could offer $8 million and make it awefully tough for Winnipeg to match.

But since I am not a Laine fan, I would go after Connor. That $8 million lands him.long term I think. Same result, much more rounded player.

MTL needs goalscoring and PP help, Laine would help for both. Connor is better all around but I like Laine better.

I think going to $10M which isn't TOO much of an overpayment, while making it even harder for WPG to match.

offer sheet Laine. Then trade him for the picks you lose. #stonks

Genius

Why does everyone think the Jets would not match an offer sheet for Laine or Connor when they can use picks and prospects to go with a cap dump of larger contracts to make space? That could be accomplished with one or two trades (worst case) i.e Perreault or Kulikov whose contracts end in less than 2 seasons meaning it would not be that difficult if they needed to move them. They could easily defend offer sheets if they need as their current cap situation which is just north of 15 million would not be far off from the total of two high offer sheet values anyways.

Not like anyone is offer sheeting each player at over 12 million dollars anytime soon....