Why Not Offer Sheet Stamkos Last Year?
 

i know its "looked down upon"

but this kid is coming into his prime, a true elite player than can score 50-60 goals for the next 10-15 years

why didn't we or any other team atleast offer sheet him to a huge contract, north of 100 million over 15 years

for a kid like him it would for worth the risk, giving up 4 1st for a franchise player like him would not be a problem

was it the yzerman effect, he is respected within the league and all the top players and others, is this why teams stayed away

looking at what just happened to weber its crazy nobody did the same to stamkos last year

You know the player has to actually sign it right? There may have been multiple teams that tried to get Stamkos to sign, but he ultimately may have wanted to stay in Tampa and work out a deal.

Regardless of whether it's looked down upon...Sather doesn't believe in it. So he's not going to do it.

Because when McDonagh, Stepan, and MDZ are RFA's you'll know why we didn't offer sheet Stamkos. When the offer McD a ridiculous contract that we can't match them we lose him.

No offer sheets. It's too big of a risk with a bunch of impending RFA's that are integral parts of this team.

Which makes Girouxs upcoming contract all that more intriguing. Would love to see a rediculous contract offer made to him, since hes actually worth it.

Yea pretty much this. Although Nashville didn't exactly incite the Weber offer (heck they have made numerous trades with Philly). Nor did Buffalo prompt the Vanek sheet.

So there are no guarantees that not doing it really gets you anything...

You never know, Holmgren sure has offer sheeted a number of great players from other teams, I would not be surprised by somebody giving him a shot in the ribs, maybe Vancouver??

I'm not arguing that he should have tried signing him, but didn't Sather not believe in front-loaded contracts?

I sincerely hope Philly gets all their RFA's poached because of the **** they're trying to pull with Weber. I think it's great that Sather has changed so much and now values picks so much.

Maybe making Howson do this can be part of the Nash trade. Keep our hands clean. ;)

Would not be surprised if NSH/PHI basically agreed on this cause they couldnt work out a trade elsewhere.

They have made too many deals with each other. Philly wouldn't screw them like that without some type of understanding in place.

Nah, makes no sense. If a team wants to offersheet our guy they are going to offersheet our guy. Can't really manage a team successfully by holding grudges against fellow teams and refusing to do business with them or just coming after them every chance you get. That's just going to cause you to make mistakes. Just need to do whatever you can to improve your own team.

Typically teams don't get "revenge" by responding with offer sheets.

However, where I have seen it come into play is trades. You tick off a fellow GM and your trade costs do tend to go up.

And getting someone from our young core is both revenge and helping their team.

Think about it, we offer Weber 7.5 mill a year, and even if we deal Dubinsky were still cutting it close (not withstanding with what happens with the cap).

You offer McDonagh a nice 5.5-6 mill offer sheet and were screwed. Any team could offer sheet our players and we wouldn't have the means to match it.

You're putting your team in a position to be susceptible to offer sheeting one of your core players.

They can offer sheet McDonagh regardless of whether or not we offer sheet one of their guys. It shouldn't have any affect on it. And in the very small sample of people who have been given offer sheets those teams didn't start giving out offer sheets to all RFA on the team that tried to sign the player.

I'd trade Stepan and either of the other two for Stamkos. Get it done Slats!

Because this is the real world. All of the GMs know each other well, this isn't some fantasy league where it's a simple calculation "well gee, this player is worth XX + X picks, let's send an offer sheet".

Weber could've signed an offer sheet with the Rangers and he chose not to.

I think, personally, it's because last offseason, the Rangers were still considered rebuilding. At least in the manner in which Sather's been going about this. This offseason they are not. You don't give up 4 first rounders when you're rebuilding.

In addition, after they signed Richards, did the team even have the Cap space to offer sheet Stamkos? Keep in mind that the Rangers don't have a summer cushion to work with because of Redden's contract.

That's not what I'm saying. Yes NSH has the potential to do a revenge offer sheet, but I'm saying taking on that much salary with being able to clear some of it off (via trade) leaves us vulnerable to the 29 teams in the league that can afford to hand out an offer sheet should they choose so.

A team with a lot of cap room could easily offer McDonagh or Stepn 5+ mill a year and unless we clear major cap space in a week then we can't afford to match it.

It's not about revenge, it's about being put in a bad situation where we can have one of our young players be offer-sheeted and we very realistically can't match it.

It's been raised before, so I'm not breaking ground here but I haven't really heard a good explanation: how is this "understanding" not considered collusion by the teams against the players?

Wut? What have you seen that even slightly suggests we offered one?

http://www.nypost.com/p/blogs/slapsh...oZB7MnP1B6NLfO

Not an official offer, but might as well have been.

Well I'll be.

Fair enough.. Brooks too, but I'm very shocked by that.. really didn't think Sather would do it

That quote does kinda make it sound like Sather would have preferred to trade for him, rather than sign him to an offer sheet, though.

Couldn't have said it any better. 100% agree and this is why you're better off not doing offer sheets to other teams' RFAs.