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Rejoint: juill. 2017
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I believe the correct irritation value is 4Mx1 year.
At that point Montreal risks a 2nd round pick, but it's more likely Nylander re-signs in Toronto, at a 4M cap hit, costing Montreal nothing, but actually irritating Toronto, by raising their costs this year, and raising the number of RFA deals they have to get done next year.
Toronto would not want to let Nylander go for 4M, so they have to re-sign him, which makes him an RFA again in 2019 when Matthews, Kapanen, and Marner will also be RFAs, and also eligible for similarly piddling offer sheets. Assuming Matthews gets 11M to match Tavares, there is no way Toronto has cap space to pay each of the other three guys 4M, and the risk is only a 2nd to offer them that, so if they haven't all been traded by then, that's when three teams could each cheaply and successfully steal someone, and give back just three second round picks.
If MTL's goal is to steal Nylander, and not just to irritate Toronto, then they should raise that offer to 4Mx2 years. Toronto sees the headache described above, pictures going into the summer of 2009 with 4M of cap space for Nylander, 11M for Matthews, and none for Kapanen or Marner. So they let you have Nylander for a 2nd round pick, at 4M a year. You could up it to 5 years, but then Nylander doesn't accept. Even with Toronto, he stands to make more than 20 over 5 by taking a bridge deal, staying on a good top line, and waiting until the salary cap goes up. By with 8 over 2, and a likely raise in two years, to, say, 6Mx3yrs is 18, he comes out of his twenties fabulously wealthy .