If Vancouver is not getting 4 1st round picks on an offer-sheet for Pettersson, they'll match.

Then the Canucks figure out what to do next before last day of training camp.

From a GMs point of view sure, it's an easy way to steal a kid. Until the cap takes a nice jump in 27, Zero owners will betray their own law by offer sheeting and spiking rfa salaries. Wasn't that quite obvious with the beautiful Cane owner shark attack...Dun don, Dun don, Dun don. Especially the 20$ signing bonus...Aho's # lol. I bet every owner personally thanked Dundon for that.

1. We'll see if other teams come calling next month.

2. We're 3.2 million short of the floor and Mikheyev's cap hit is only 1.65 million

I would say offer it to him today... If they dont match you could have petters and brady well on your way out of a rebuild.
If they do VAn is going to need to move 2-3 contracts and there are only a couple teams who could take on the contracts including OTT

Turris doesn't want to come back to Ottawa ever again and his cap hit is not enough to get us to the floor.

What would you pay to dump Kassian?

There's way less draft pick compensation and less risk from offer-sheeting Yamamoto though.

What if one of our 1st round picks wins the lottery?

A second round pick.

Not enough.

Dumping Kassian will cost more like two seconds.

Either that or we might go ahead with the offer-sheet on Kailer.

Offer sheet thomas

There's less risk in offer-sheeting Yamamoto.

Pretty sure that there already is a deal in place for kailer and the oilers so Iam sure he would reject an offer sheet unless he gets payed like the canes offer sheet.

Proof?

But thomas is better

I said pretty sure so it is my assumption but I could be wrong.

Their performances in the regular season last year suggest Yamamoto is better.

Their performances in the playoffs last year suggest it's a bit of a wash.



However, the entire point of this is to find a way to get over the floor before October 12th.

Also, any offer-sheet on Thomas that doesn't involve a 1st round pick gets matched.

Furthermore, St. Louis has more cap space to match an offer-sheet than Edmonton.

We'll see what happens then.

Oh, I’d sign Chris Pronger too, and stick him on my AHL 3rd pair back when he was in LTIRetirement.

This is ridiculous. Kassian is a big, fast, physical player (a la Tom Wilson) who has scored 14-20-34 in his past 82 games. He's not a cap dump and the Oilers are NOT paying a 2nd to move him.

If you look a little closer, you'd see that Kassian rarely gets powerplay time. His 5v5 numbers in the past 82 games - 14 goals + 18 assists = 32 points puts him here on the Sens roster (each player's last 82 regular season games):

Brown: 19-17-36
Tkachuk: 17-15-32
Kassian: 14-18-32
Tierney: 6-19-25
Paul: 10-13-23
White: 8-15-23
Batherson: 13-9-22
Watson: 8-9-17

players with less than 82 games:
Norris: 59, 10-9-19 (pace: 14-13-26)
Stuetzle: 53, 8-12-20 (pace: 12-19-31)
Formenton: 20, 3-2-5 (pace: 12-8-20)

Ottawa literally has 1 guy who has scored more than Kassian over his past 82 games. Edmonton is in Win Now mode, they aren't going to trade useful players at this point of the offseason, even if there are good picks coming back. There is absolutely no reason for them to send picks away with Kassian on the eve of training camp.

FYI Tom Wilson scored 9-27-36 in his past 82 games at 5v5.

If we are somehow equating Kassian with Tkachuk, then I guess we should be equating Austin Watson with someone like Ryan Nugent Hopkins.


I love how you spin numbers to fit your narrative.


You're right.


This is ridiculous

You can ignore the facts all you like. There's no "spin" here, I posted these players actual results over their past 82 games at 5v5. Pretty standard stuff.

Edmonton isn't trading Kassian right now, and they certainly aren't giving up a pick to move him. That's ridiculous.

I'm looking at the same "facts" you're looking at.

That Kassian's numbers 5 on 5 are the same as Tkachuk's over the last 82 games.

And that because the 2020-2021 season was only 56 games, you would probably be including some games from the 2019-2020 season as well.




Pretty Standard stuff.

No spin here.

Sure :/




Furthermore, my post here has absolutely nothing to do with trading for Kassian.

I only mentioned him because someone brought him up.

But, sure, let's keep comparing him with Tkachuk.



You're right.

This is ridiculous.

I want Ottawa to stay as far as possible from offer sheets. It's not a playground they should play in. I think Melnyk and Dorion know it

The solution is option #2 below. There's a lot of teams who would gladly trade you an expensive player for not much or even with an asset



1. A few more guys will most likely be signed but more around 1 M$ for 1 year. Can't see the Sens overpaying one of those guys 4x

2. Yeah but considering the situation, they'd take LESS than they normally would. Let's say for example an overpaid player would have required a 2nd to get moved, but the Sens would take a 4th in this situation, the other team would be more happy to create some cap space for a 4th

If it comes to Brady holding out or asking a trade, #2 is very likely to happen last minute. At this very moment, a professional organization would have several back-up plans on the table

Do you feel comfortable with dorion though, honest question.

Not really, but why do you ask in this thread?

Dorion is a pretty BIG hit or miss GM so far.

He worries me in general. Just last year, giving up a 2nd round pick for 6.5 AAV Stepan (even though he made less in salary), I was really not happy. Or when they waived Rudolfs Balcers to be sure to NOT waive Paquette, Galchenyuk, Anisimov or Stepan. It was pretty stupid at the moment it happened and it made me question hard about their pro scouting even more. You have to watch recent tapes, not from 2-3 years ago lol