Quoting: BuckoJoyde
With all ish he went through in the playoffs to only offer him a rather weak bridge deal is a spit in the face.
List of Teams more than capable of making space and willing or should be willing to give up the compensation imo:
Minnesota Wild
Calgary Flames
Nashville Preds
CBJ? Ehh maybe SJ and ZW are gonna demand alot.
Although, you make fair points and cant argue with the issue of cap space. Teams can easily make room tho. Barzal is the exact player id be willing to give the max compestaiton for 2 1st, a 2nd and 3rd. Only dilemma I see is Barzal not even considering those offers.
Preds already have multiple centers tied up long term contracts, like Duchene at 9 milllion I don't see them doing it
Calgary Flames are going to try to get Hall, and they all need defensmen help and a #1 goalie , I don't see them doing it
Minnesota wild have Kaprizov to sign down the line and still have Praise on the books for 5 years and they need a #1 goalie, I also do not think Barzal would want to go to a developing team so I don't see
them
The sharks, have multiple D ( Burns , Karlsson and Valsicv) sign long term making 7,8, and 11 million respectively . They also have to find a goalie . So they wouldn't have the cap space to offersheet Barzal , They are out of the offersheet
CBJ is the only team I could see offersheeting barzal but would you want to pay 4 first rounders to do it because you going have to offersheet him at over 10.5 million for the isles to not match it