Offersheet thoughts

Team: 2019-20 Vancouver Canucks

Initial Creation Date: Mar. 6, 2019

Published: Mar. 11, 2019

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

The Canucks are more than willing to throw good money at questionable older players, I think they should do that with less-questionable younger players.

An offer sheets of under 4.059mil return only a 2nd rounder.
The idea of this exercise with this is to target two teams that are tight to the cap and who have a couple of young RFA players they need to sign this offseason but have limited funds to do so. Basically, you force the team against the cap out of a player who would need to take a favourable contract to stay with their current team, by giving that player an offer sheet more than current team is likely or probably willing to afford.
Targets are high-end players exiting their ELCs that have had lacklustre seasons giving their current teams some leverage to undervalue them and sign them for a more modest cap, OR are having a great season and the teams need to do some creative bookwork to keep them and plug holes in the roster going forward.

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Jesse Puljujärvi - isn't performing up to expectations, Edmonton needs to make major changes and will probably go after a Myers and/or Gardiner and maybe a UFA scoring winger, how much room for JP does that leave? Do you think Edmonton would pay $4x2-4yrs for JP?

Kasperi Kapanen - is having a very good season. TO has 10mil in cap space for next year and needs to sign Marner and replace or resign Gardiner, TO simply cannot afford to give Kap the decent contract he has earned. An offer of $4x2 will probably land him, unless another team is willing to go higher and give up a 1st and 3rd.
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Also, you have to expect that these moves will burn any bridges with those teams for future transactions. Not that Canucks have a history of doing a lot of business with either team.


There are also rumours that Eriksson is embarrassed with his performance in Van and toying around with going back to play in the SHL. He loses his NMC this summer, the Canucks can stuff him in the minors or bench him and force him to leave, That should get his money off the books, or turns it into a tradeable asset to a team near the cap floor.

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