He's really good.

Offer sheets are a joke, And rarely work.

This would make it really tough to ressign dach and boqvist

like I said in the description, not realistic.

fair point, You would atcually probably just let saad and murphy walk or trade then at the deadlines before their respectibe deals are up. Probably trade Strome at some point as well if Barett/Kurashev prove they can play 3rd line. It would be tight but it could work. Its never going to happen anyways though

If I were Dallas I'd be working tooth and nail to get him re-signed before the offseason. Much eaiser to move guys if you need to later without having to worry about someone trying to do dump 8 figures on him.

He's really good and these playoffs are showing that. On a long term deal Heiskanen could easily ask for 10-11 mil. Obviously less if they try to bridge him maybe like 7-8 mil

This kinda spells out the issue obviously. Yes it’s unrealistic, but more than anything we don’t wanna keep giving up our prospects for cheap. If there is an actual direction this team is on, it would be wise to stay on it.

Heiskanen still has a year remaining on his ELC, so this offer sheet can’t happen until after the 20-21 season. Heiskanen is the franchise in Dallas now & future. Teams simply match the offer sheet. Happen when the Hurricanes offered Fedorov a contract. Detroit matched it. Same when the Flames made an offer sheet to O’Reilly. Colorado matched it

I think the main reason offer sheets don't work, or haven't worked so far, is that GM's are too timid to do them and/or don't really want to do them.

Over the next 3 seasons with what's projected to be a flat cap, if there's a cap strapped team with a good player that's eligible, why not offer 4/$6.5M per? It's a 1st and a 3rd in compensation. For Heiskenan, he'd get to hit FA at age 25 or 26 (I didn't look up his B-day) when the cap should be higher. Good for him. If he signs the offer sheet and the Stars match, they'll still have less cap space to make other moves.
Tampa Bay would have to scramble to stay cap compliant to match a 4/$5M per deal on Sergachev. Sure, they'll match if he signs, but there'd be a few dominos to fall for them after that.

I mean, the Federov offer sheet was back in 1998, pre-cap. Not sure that one should count. I looked up the O'Reilly offer sheet because I couldn't remember the term, it was only 2 years and was back when teams could still offer "bridge" type of deals to RFA's and they'd sign them. Plus, I don't remember the Avs being a cap-strapped team at the time, but I could be wrong. The Aho offer was a little low.

We're looking at a small sample size when looking at offer sheets, to say the least. It doesn't seem as though GM's are overly strategic when making them so far. We're now at a flat cap and top RFA's are seemingly less willing to get a bridge type of deal. The Stars and Lightning are in the SCF this year. Last I checked the Lightning would have a lot of cap issues if another team offered Sergachev a 4/$5.5M offer sheet. Fine, one has done the negotiating for them. But they'll be over the cap and have to make some moves to get back under if they match. After next offseason, sure, the Stars can handle a $6.5M cap hit. But they have only 4 forwards and 3 D with NHL experience currently signed for 21-22. I'd even go 4/$8.7M per for Heiskenan. Why not make filling out the roster a little tougher on Nill? Gentleman's agreement to make life easier for all GMs at the expense of using the offer sheet as a tool to improve one's own team?

Its a win-win for the hawks. They eigther get Heiskanen or Dallas has to scramble to make moves to clear the cap space for heiskanen and thier team gets worse