For a former 1st overall pick I’m sure they would find a way

Oh no! We totallyyyyyy won’t be able to match or trade/buyout someone so we can match!!

Cap will go up enough to cover after next season anyway. Rangers find an easy way to match.

What is everyone's hard on to put Laf in MTL? Let NYR keep deploying him on the 4th line and ruin him completely, we can draft someone else.

Because offer sheets have worked out so well for the Habs recently. Good luck with it.

I don't see how the Rangers match or even want to. I guess the question is why the Habs would spend 4.2m on LAF

I thought MB and his soft offer sheets were gone. Its going to take a 1st and 3rd offer sheet to make them sweat.

Thank you, both of you

I agree it would be hard for NYR to match. MTL spent 3.5M on Dach last summer. I think they would sign Laf at 4.2M



Dach was stuck playing 3rd/4th line in Chicago too. I think Lafreniere would be even better than Dach in MTL.

I think MTL could try something like this but I am sure NYR has a plan in place if they do. It is possible for them to match but all notions of them being cup contenders would be gone if they did.

They could trade Goodrow and fill out the roster with minimum wage players. It is possible and I would match it. Force Canadians to go really high and play more picks to get him. They sort of have too in this case.

I realize you mean this as a dig on the Habs but, the KK debacle has worked out for MTL... we don't miss him in the slightest.

Then if/when he ends up in FA (or NYR have a discount firesale) he'll don the bleu blanc rouge and we'll find out. Until then we'll draft our own players and build the rest of the team up.

Looks like the cap only goes up by 1m

Offersheets are for dreamers. The owners put a stop to that Molson shenanigan in a hurry. For sure the owners want to shoot themselves in the foot by spiking rfa salaries lol

Yeah, they are so good, who needs him.

You're pretty sour eh? Must be tough.

lol.....you're threating offer sheets like a baby, look who's talking.

Exactly when did I "threaten an offer sheet"? Please, enlighten me on this mystery.

That is what this post is about.