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I guess anything's possible but insuring someone for money they willingly turn down just seems weird.
And if that still sounds weird to you, well, this is an industry that insured a Movie Star's butt, so...
I had a dream Marner signed an offer sheet with Colorado for $13.6M
Quote from: Zee on July 01, 2019, 08:37:22 AMI had a dream Marner signed an offer sheet with Colorado for $13.6MPlease stop lol
After all this Dreger (Paul) throws out the potential 3 year bridge deal to get a Marner deal done.
Quote from: Zee on July 01, 2019, 08:37:22 AMI had a dream Marner signed an offer sheet with Colorado for $13.6MThat may not be a dream.Montreal just offer sheeted Aho and if Carolina matches, Montreal will still have that money and sufficient cap space to come after Marner.
Price is going down with the Aho contract comparable.
I wish that there was some sort of mechanism in the CBA that just sped up this process. I mean we see all this UFA deals coming together in less than a week but we're now probably going to see RFA negotiations drag into August and September pretty often. And considering the circumstances that you laid out that makes sense. There's no real rush on either side. But it just feels like such wasted time. Look at the Aho situation, the Canes were lowballing him hard to the point that they probably weren't even close to nearing Montreal's offer which they're now apparently "celebrating" (as they should). Presumably, Aho's people made that same offer to Carolina prior to going the offer sheet route and Waddell said no. Probably because he didn't feel like he had to "blink" yet. I don't really know what the fix to all of this is. Move up the RFA signing deadline? Unless you move it to August, which seems extreme, I doubt that really changes too much. Maybe make it so after a certain date in the summer the compensation for offer sheets becomes a little relaxed? That could encourage more of these Aho-type deals where the player is pretty much just using it to get the contract he wants from his original team, but that would rely on other teams being willing to make an offer sheet that will 90% likely get matched.