I'm sure ARI would love to, and maybe they can find the money.. but this summer they shut down Kessel rumours saying they couldn't afford his 6.8 cap hit due to budget restrictions

lots of AM offer sheets now showing up leaf fans are you getting concerned

Leaf fans are tired about talking about Nylander....time for something else. Earlier in the day, I suggested that "just maybe" Matthews could be in Coyotes sight, if they went all in financially.
SleepingOut1992 , made a good post regarding the Coyotes financial situation next year and their possibilities of signing Matthews.

Here's another Leafs fan saying, Nice job. Those four first-round draft picks will be adequate consolation, though.

Que sera, sera.

By the way, not to rain on your parade, but have you given any thought to the expansion draft in 2020? Without those four first-round picks, how are you going to hold off the Seattle hounds? It looks to me like you're going to want to protect Cousins, Crouse, Dvorak, Fischer, Hossa (NMC), Keller, Matthews, Perlini, Strome and Nick Merkley -- three forwards too many. On defense, you'll have to expose Hjalmarsson (who'll be 33) and Demers (who'll be 32) in order to keep Chychrun, Ekman-Larsson and Goligoski. Good luck!

A) What makes you think the Seattle expansion rules will be the same as they were for Vegas? Every expansion draft has had different rules. Previous versions offered little talent to the expansion teams. This last one offered to much. Something tells me owners won’t allow it again.

B) worrying about who you’d lose in expansion draft by signing Matthews would not prohibt them from signing Matthews.

The thing is though it could end up being a tavares situation in terms of a player wanting to go home there is something people need to realize. That is tavares has bought into the BS of a small market team before wanting to win cups and was lied to. Don't you think that tavares will mention that though it's great to go home when is the last time ARI aggressively went after franchise players to win? So he's going leave a team that he would go down as a legend to play for a team that will never win a cup for 2 million more a year which he will make extra a year in endorsements in a large market? I get that it would be great for hockey if Matthews went home to win a cup but ARI are not TOR and are about 10-15 players away from being a playoff team let alone a cup contender. So Tavares came home for 2 reasons 1) he wanted to put on the blue and white and 2) he is one of the final pieces other than a shutdown dman from being the most complete team in the NHL.

A) What makes you think they won't? Apparently, you feel that there was some mistake there, or that something went wrong. On the contrary: the Las Vegas expansion was an enormous success -- it created an instantly competitive team which filled not only its own barn but everybody else's. You think the Seattle investors are going to pay a 30% premium over the Las Vegas owners to put a lesser product on the ice?!?

B) I wasn't talking about the GM; I was talking about the fans. My point, to re-state it for you, was that it's a little early to be celebrating. Plus, it's still much too hot to be outside in Phoenix holding a parade.

I agree with most of what you say, but if you look at my other comment and see the players I listed, this is not that bad a team. Matthews would make them an instant competitor for the Cup. (I would say "Believe me" here, but a certain politician has forever spoiled that phrase for me.)

The owners only care about their own teams and own bottom line. They have to approve expansion draft rules. They didn’t like the last set as it was. Bettman fought to get them on board. You think owners of Columbus, Ottawa, islanders, etc. etc give a damn wether or not Seattle is given enough talent to compete? They want as much of an expansion fee as they can charge to get their 1/31st of it while giving them as little talent as possible.

No they may have a 10-12 good players but the rest of the team wouldn't even probably play on the Marlies. cup contenders are build on depth look at PIT and WSH. So though you are correct the have some good core players they don't have a budget for anyother NHL calibre talant so though i may have imblesshed that they would be hard pressed to get to the playoffs a doubt they will have the budget even with the few extra season ticket holders Matthews would bring in ( this is based off when they were a playoff team a few years ago they were having to give away tickets and still were at half capacity) they would be like NYI and never abole to put the finishing touches to win a cup.

Don't raise the subject of the Islanders with me or I'll give EVERY SINGLE ONE of your future AGM teams one star.

You understand his salary is 91 million divided by 5 years not 7 because of the rfa rules. His cap hit would be over 18 million.

I didn't mean to be insulting im only pointing out how tavares was sold on their desire to win a cup but they never aggressively went after wingers and other centres to get them there. What that organztion did in going half a**ed in building needs to give any star play pause that unless they have everything else in place it's not worth going to a small market team.

Oh, you weren't being insulting at all. Haven't you noticed my moniker? I took no offence! Didn't you notice my "Like"?

I did after my comment

The offer sheet will not happen I would like to think Matthews is locked up before one can even be sent in. But he has put himself and his agency on the line by both public ally saying he will sign a long term deal in Toronto. Not to mention what was said to Tavares before he made the move over. You don’t get Bobby Orr telling the media one thing and then go back on it.

I could most certainly see him finishing his career there though. Making a move like Tavares.

I'm a Leaf fan...but I'm not concerned. If it happens, it happens. That's the nature of a cap league, and the rules of RFA signing. Similarly I wish Nylander was signed and playing. But he's not a hold out, he's unsigned, it's his right to wait for the offer he wants from any team, any league.

People need to look at the title of this and realize I just wanted to look at the logistics im not saying this is a good or bad idea or anything of the like

I understand that, the other part of the logistics would be am I sending enough to ensure they sign it? Would not be in Arizona’s best interest to send out a sheet that gets turned down.