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Originally Posted by 54drinking
Help me out here. Weber is a Group 3 UFA according to the NHL website. Why would the Flyers have to do any kind of deal with the Preds. Couldn't they deal directly with Weber?
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Nashville controls his rights, so I'm not sure I follow.
Do you mean negotiate an offer sheet?
The Flyers could send Weber an absurd 12 year, $120 million contract, and Nashville, at this point, would probably still match it.
The only deal Nashville wouldn't match would be something like 1 year, $13 million--which is insanely stupid for the Flyers to do, since they would forfeit 4 first round picks for one (guaranteed) year of service.
EDIT: Sounds like something is wrong or mischaracterized on the website. Weber is RFA, not UFA.