NY Islanders 19-20 Roster

Ehm.. a little reminder.. offersheets would never work in NHL. EVER..

Player who you sign offer sheet to can either accept or decline offer sheet which Im sure either Matthews and Marner would do. And now it stops for you. Nothing more..

Umm, little reminder for you, offer sheets have worked in the NHL in the past (see Shea Weber), it's just that most teams won't do them. And you're telling me Matthews and Marner will turn down 13m and 10m a year, respectively, to stay in TOR for significantly less money due to their impending CAP issues??

Yes they will turn down that offers. The thing is that they would get more money in Toronto.. why? Commercials and sponsors would be willing to get them so much more money without taxation in their contracts. Yes, Matthews would have 10mil dollar cap hit and Marner 7-8.. but they would double that on commercials and they already did commercials and other stuff. Also they are willing to take paycuts to win in toronto with JT.. if it was that easy to offer sheet players why havent some team offersheeted McDavid who is better than any player in the league? Why not offersheet Draisaitl? Offersheeting players just for stupid revenge is, from Islanders'standpoint, the stupidiest idea ever. And those 4 1st rounders could end up being suuch a good player.. so even if that scenario happens, Toronto likely wins by far.

Okay, #1 - McDavid and Draisaitl have never been in a situation where they COULD be given offer sheets - They were both signed to long term deals before reaching RFA status - so that argument is just plain stupid and has no merit. However, I guarantee you, if either of them had made it to where they could receive offer sheets, teams would have been lining up to submit offer sheets on both.

#2 - The offer sheet from the Isles perspective isn't a "revenge" scenario as you put forth... it's a simple matter of TOR has potentially handcuffed themselves in terms of CAP by signing JT in being able to sign BOTH Matthews and Marner in the SAME offseason, PLUS TOR needs to upgrade at D with Gardiner leaving soon as well.

As it has been speculated by MANY people and insiders throughout the NHL TOR is going to have a real problem with CAP trying to resign both, especially if the CAP doesn't continue to increase at the rate it did this year (which it likely won't). EVERY team in the NHL is salivating at the thought of submitting offer sheets on both Matthews and Marner next year because of the CAP situation in TOR.. hell, just look at some of the posts on this board to see that.

Obviously we won't know until next off season and this is purely speculation, but your dismissal of the idea simply because you think offer sheets "don't work in the NHL" and that both Matthews and Marner would leave significant money on the table to stay in TOR just because you brought in JT is quite simply ridiculous.

And WHEN teams do submit offer sheets on Matthews and/or Marner next year, whether it's the Isles or not, TOR isn't going to be able to keep both of them, sorry to break it to you bud.

AND on your last point, yes giving up 4 1st rounders would hurt, but with the amount of young talent the Isles have in their system AND drafted in this years draft, we may be bottom feeders for one year, two tops so 3 of those 4 picks are guarantees to NOT be top 10 picks, or even top 15 picks.

First of all.. Draisaitl was eligible for being offer sheeted since he signed his longterm deal in the summer he was RFA. McDavid was the other case and I realized that after. Sorry for that. But Draisaitl couldve been offer sheeted, so my argument wasnt stupid. I didnt saw any team lining up to offer sheet Draisaitl

Offer sheet from exactly Isles is clearly a not-so-well though revenge that would possibly destroy Islanders future. Not only you would get rid of 4 1st rounders that would be great 1st team players but you are also commiting yourself to massively overpaid contract which would not be worthy thats why it would be a revenge.. Well.. good luck with that.. that would be massive mistake and Lou doesnt make them..

Toronto hasnt handcuffed themselves. They would not have cap problems whatsoever trust me. They would get all 3 signed before the start of this season.

And even if they hit RFA status they would need to sign to an offer sheet and they would never do that. They must accept it first and that would not happen. If offer sheets worked perfectly what are you trying to say, wouldnt Mark Stone, Leon Draisaitl (who again was able to get offer sheeted), William Karlsson and other notable RFAs offersheeted by now? And its not ridiculous that they would leave money on table. They would leave money on table. You know who were the happiest people in Toronto when JT signed? Them.. Matthews is still so excited right now almost 3 weeks from signing JT. They would leave significant money on table to have chance of winning not only one SC in Toronto.

All-in-all.. it is ridiculous idea to offer sheet one of the Leafs stars because at the end.. Leafs would still win but try it, you can of course. But you will regret that