Go ahead and offer sheet him. WPG will gladly take the 1st, 2nd and 3rd round picks or even better still the 2 - 1sts, 2nd and 3rd round pick.

GO AHEAD!!! Take him. We don't want your worthless offer.

Not sure the Canucks do that trade.He has a injury history the Canucks dont need or can afford.IMHO.

the offre let wpg sing him at 4.9 and trade him to the LA Kinngs and maximise the offer

They do save 650k in cap, i think its an original idea and if you decline I'm sure habs can try and trade him somewhere else

Did you read what it says ?!?! What 1st 2nd amd 3rd ?!?!

When a player signs an offer sheet he isn't tradable for a full year

Its not a bad idea,just not for the Canucks.

You saw the offer, right? The compensation would be a second-rounder. Now, the Jets would probably be tempted to match, but they then can't trade him until after the season, so not trade deadline bonanza. It's nasty, but it just might work -- even if it's just a threat.

I called this ACGM team "no hard feelings" for a reason

its an offer that compensates a 2nd so yeah habs should go ahead lmao they match it and pld a ufa next year, they dont they get a 2nd. they played their hand too much if they dont get Byfield and one of the RD of kings and actually expected the 5th overall of this year's draft lmao

I love these half- witted offer sheet ideas. Like PLD is going to sign an offer sheet that does nothing for him and only benefits a team that is saying, we want you but don't think you're valuable enough to offer fair value for.

Montreal fan fantasy gold!

CANNOT wait to see the Habs fans' faces when they don't get PLD or they have to pay up for him.... will be so much fun to see that!

They're really starting to panic now. They've been convincing themselves for so long that they would get PLD and have to give up nothing of value, that they are really struggling with the reality that they need to compete with other teams that have actual valuable assets that are in play and Montreal can't offer anything comparable.

Hence the half-witted, grasping at straws, scenarios.

Can't wait to see the Jets fans faces (especially Windjammers) when PLD is traded for a cap offset 2024 top 10 protected 1st and B prospect like Kidney, even though they think they will get 3 unprotected 1st round picks or something equally ridiculous

No body cares if we get PLD enough to "panic" about not getting him. If he wants 8.5 mil + on a long term contract we would be ecstatic not to get him, let some other moron GM trade a bunch of assets for him then sign him to a ridiculous overpayment that he will never live up to.

PS I got really bad news for those same ridiculous Jets fans, there is no winning a PLD trade. It's like any other team trading their top players that have requested a trade, there is no winning that.

Do you think PLD will sign an offer sheet for less than $6.5M with MTL? He's asking for $9M, which is insane. He's maybe worth $7M tops. I mean, it's possible that he takes a home town discount to get to MTL and bleep the Jets, but he would have to swallow his ego (which is HUGE).

If PLD signs an offer sheet, it will be for over $6.5M and it could be another team that steps up to grab him and see what happens after the year, which will garner WPG a 1st, 2nd and 3rd, which they would probably be good with.

Lol. Nobody cares, but yet there are dozens and dozens of Montreal fan ACGM's every day begging for PLD.

That sure sounds like "nobody cares."

To be fair, he might sign an OS for less than 6.5 but he definitely won't sign one for less than 6 (sorry to my fellow Habs fan) which means a 1st + 3rd

It's cause he is a good player, everyone always wants to improve their team but no one is panicking over it as you suggest they are. If we get him we don't really accelerate the rebuild as even with him we are at least 2 years from being a legit contender. So while it would be nice to get the player, no one will be panniced if we don't get him either

It's not really panicked if you don't get him. It's that Montreal fans are panicking now, after realizing that they have to put in a competitive offer, which they will have a tough time doing, with other teams bidding.

You've all spent so much time and energy convincing yourselves and trying to convince everyone else that Montreal would be able to get PLD without giving up anything of value and be able to pay him whatever paltry sum you deemed fit, that now that it appears that isn't true, Montreal fans are starting to scramble. Throwing up ridiculous scenarios and grasping at straws.

I know you're trying to put on a brave face by saying it doesn't matter, but it definitely will be a huge gut punch if he doesn't end up in Montreal.

I have maintained (even when other Habs fans have said that his value is low) that the price to acquire PLD is about the Florida 1st + Kidney + Dvorak/Hoffman + maybe a 3rd now that the Panthers pick is 31st. It has even been agreed upon by multiple other Jets fans. This is a fair price for both sides, I don't think that any GM (even those outside Montreal) would give up much more than this, plus still have to sign him in the 8.5+ mil range, it just makes little sense to go overboard to acquire a 2C who has been problematic for 2 separate teams.

Why would it be a huge gut punch exactly? If he doesn't come here we aren't out all the assets you seem to think we will be trading to acquire him, we have been down this road several times before with much better players. They say the want to play here but a deal never works out, it's no different than any other team not getting a player their fans are really hot after. It would be more of a gut punch if we paid 5th + Dach + something else then he demanded 10+ mil and we were either forced into signing that or sitting him for the season and lost all those assets for that.

Pretty minimal cap savings for the downgrade in player quality

Read what i wrote, he'll get his 70m total over 8 years

Oh I read it and I know he will still gets paid, I just don't see him willing to signe that low or the league allowing it (they may view it as either cap circumvention or devaluing players). This is just my opinion and I am not saying I am right and you are wrong I just don't see PLD signing even a 1 year deal that low.

If the KK offersheet where he toke more money for one year and then less for the rest of his extension wasn't considered cap circumventing why would that be the case ?