Avs match any offer for Byram or Newhook

I've been looking at some Avs ACGMs and even with a Girard or Toews trade or as many league min. contracts and ELCs, it won't be easy matching an offersheet with high $$ and then signing the other

I've always found it quite odd to speculate about offer sheets this far out. Ince July 1st hits and they aren't signed, speculate away.

Players have to want to sign Offersheet, and there is no reason to think Newhook or Byram would want to sign one.

If they both sign contracts tomorrow you're **** out of luck.

Byram is a local boy, the Canucks are beginning to become competitive, and if the offersheet has sufficient $$ I could see him signing

Why would it be difficult after moving Girard lol? Shouldn’t they have like 15-20 million in cap space after that? They can load up on cheap one year deals and they will be fine.

I mean people speculated about Dobson and he probably signed his bridge deal a year ago 😂

I meant difficulty matching an offersheet. If lets say Byram gets offersheeted to a $6 or $7 million dollar contract, the Avs wouldn't have an easy time giving what Newhook wants along with filling out the rest of the holes on their roster

They don’t have holes. They r the Avs lol. They will be fine.

local means nothing.
Not every player wants to play in the hometown

Also canucks have their own cap issues, they are the last team to playing the offer sheetgame

As long as Meyers, Miller and OEL are on the books, ya'll aint offer sheeting sheet.
Byram played Jr there but he really isn't local(who really is in Van). Cranbrook is basically the same flight time to Denver as Van. If you want local, trade for Toews. Byram gets matched all day. Would have to be overpay high for Newhook.

Myers will be gone in 2 years. OEL has a somewhat friendly buyout if we resort to it. Our cap situation is better than the Avs at the moment. Maybe Canucks can't make it happen, but if another team with a lot of cap space makes a move, then Avs could be in some trouble

I'll take the Avs cup situation over your better cap situation. Where you can't O.S Byram or Newhook.

The Canucks don't have to move any key players to fit everybody in....

Avs don't have to either. Their rfa's don't even have arb rights. Q.O or bridge them and when the cap goes way up, you sign them to long term deals.

Avs don't have holes? Who's their 2C again? Or starting goaltender?

Which they won cup with their 2c unable to hold a stick and. Goalie with one good eye

I just made an AGM (titled "2023 off-season") where I had Byram at $7m with only Toews as a casualty. It's doable. Avs match any OS.

Exactly, that proves my point. If you give Byram that amount of money another team could very easily just offersheet Newhook for a million dollars more and Avs wouldn't be able to match

Newhook and Georgiev…. If Sakic is good with that then so am I.

The Shorks got Niemi this way, kinda.

You're assuming that Newhook would want to create bad blood with the Avs over one million. Doubt he would, especially if they're bridging him with a view of paying him on a long-term deal a couple of years later.

Cmac/Sakic also seem to be too prudent to leave themselves open to that sort of scenario. They'll negotiate with Byram and Newhook in parallel and then get both done relatively close to one another.

That's nice but they are still holes in the roster regardless of how you, or Sakic, feels about them. Expecting a GM to throw players under the bus before you call them 'holes' on the roster is a rather unrealistic stance. Those 2 are massive downgrades on last season and with less help around them as well. They are the 2 holes on an Avs roster which isn't as strong as it was when they pushed through injury problems in the playoffs.

Kuemper had one eye and the Avs still won the cup with him. Tbh I didn’t think he was any good before the eye injury either.

And yeah Newhook wasn’t as good as Kadri last year. As far as NHL players go he’s pretty early in his developmental curve. I think he will figure it out. If not they have E-Rod and Compher at stop gap options. If Sakic believes in this roster, then I’m not gonna argue with him. He knows what he’s doing lol.