The Anaheim Ducks have until Friday to decide if they are matching the bombshell $18M AAV offer sheet the Philadelphia Flyers dropped on Leo Carlsson last week. Many insiders around hockey say they can't see a world where the Ducks don't match. If that's the case, where do the Flyers and GM Danny Briere turn next? Many are suggesting that Philly might see Columbus Blue Jackets' RFA Adam Fantilli as a Plan B offer sheet. Anthony Di Marco of Daily Faceoff has an answer for that: There have...
Plus: What top-four defensemen are still out there? Is Larkin a fit for the Ducks? And more.
It’s July 8, and two days from now the landscape for the Philadelphia Flyers will be a lot clearer. Right now things are in an antsy holding pattern. The offer sheet to Leo Carlsson might have pushed Claude Giroux’s possible signing off the table, while kicking the extensions to Trevor Zegras and Jamie Drysdale down the road a bit. If Anaheim Ducks general manager Pat Verbeek and his owner agree to bite the bullet and pay the 21-year-old center a whack of coin over the next 12 months, then he’...
In case you somehow haven’t heard by now, the Philadelphia Flyers have signed Leo Carlsson to a massive offer sheet . News broke last Friday that Carlsson agreed to the Flyers’ offer: a five-year contract carrying an $18 million AAV. If the Anaheim Ducks don’t match, the Flyers will land Carlsson, but it’ll cost them their next four first-round picks.
Four first-round picks might sound like an enormous price to pay. And for a rebuilding team, it would be. But the Flyers are no longer in t...
The Philadelphia Flyers are completely frozen until they get word whether or not the Anaheim Ducks will match their offer sheet to star center Leo Carlsson. Nothing can be done without knowing if the 21-year-old Swede is going to be coming to Philadelphia along with his $18-million AAV that could make them pinch a whole lot of pennies for the rest of the offseason.
Anaheim has until Friday afternoon to make their decision and we’re just waiting here, thinking of various reasons why the Du...
The Ducks could have difficulty re-signing Cutter Gauthier regardless of whether they match Leo Carlsson's offer sheet, plus the Hurricanes could be considering more offer-sheet shenanigans.
It has been eerily quiet around the NHL since the Philadelphia Flyers tendered an offer sheet to Leo Carlsson on Friday.
Pat Verbeek and the Anaheim Ducks are in the second half of the seven-day period they have to decide whether or not to match the five-year, $90 million contract for their 21-year-old restricted free agent. Of course, that contract is heavily front-loaded with signing bonuses to boot, as the Flyers wanted to add even more pressure to Anaheim’s ownership.
While the d...
The NHL should be thanking the Flyers for playing the villain and signing Leo Carlsson to a massive offer sheet. The now-heightened animosity between them and the Ducks is what the game needs.
Remember how crazy it was last fall when the Minnesota Wild signed Kirill Kaprizov to an eight-year, $136 million extension that made him the NHL’s highest-paid player by $3 million?…
The deal will carry an AAV of $900,000.
The Flyers’ offer for the emerging star sets an NHL salary record.
The Philadelphia Flyers put the Anaheim Ducks in a blender by signing their franchise player Leo Carlsson to a five year $90 million offer sheet last week. This has put Ducks general manager Pat Verbeek in a difficult situation as he has to navigate a murky offseason situation. Either way, Anaheim loses something here as […]
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The Edmonton Oilers and other teams in the Pacific Division should be sending flowers and chocolates to the Philadelphia Flyers front office. A nice card should read, “Thanks for sending the Anaheim Ducks a poison pill.” Because that’s exactly what they did in signing Leo Carlsson to a five-year, $18 million AAV offer sheet. It’s…
The Anaheim Ducks were targeted for payback in the Leo Carlsson offer sheet, a move that was a long time coming.
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The Morgan Rielly trade speculation keeps pointing toward Anaheim, but the Ducks have spent the past week dealing with a franchise-altering situation that complicates any addition. Per Chris Johnston on his own show, Anaheim still makes sense for the Toronto Maple Leafs defenseman, and Johnston believes it is a place Rielly would be willing to play."Re Morgan Rielly: Anaheim still makes sense," Johnston said. "I think it's a place he would be willing to play."
That fit, however, now runs thr...
*We’ve got four more agonizing days to wait until the Ducks are forced to make their decision, but until then feel good about the fact that at least one Big Famous Hockey Guy thinks the Flyers are going to get him. [ BSH ]
*Even now, several days out from the offer sheet being announced, folks are still talking about how much this contract will reshape the league, no matter which team ends up executing it. [ BSH ]
*See, even Elliotte Friedman thinks so. [ Sportsnet ]
*Shockwaves...
The NHL is trying to settle into its brief mid-summer quiet period, but there are major names still out there (trade requests) and arbitration hearing season is also around the corner. In the post-July 1 dust-settling, Elliotte Friedman’s latest 32 Thoughts podcast made waves among several fanbases (15 minutes on the Ducks losing control, the […]
The Anaheim Ducks are faced with a massive dilemma this week: To match, or not to match, the insane $18 million AAV offer sheet signed by Leo Carlsson with the Philadelphia Flyers. If they choose not to match, the Flyers would have to send their next four first-round picks in the NHL Draft to the Ducks as compensation. It's still a good bet for Philly, as none of those mid-to-lower-first-round picks will come close to being another Leo Carlsson. It's the old 'best player in the deal wins...
The second week of July is usually a quieter one across the NHL. The draft is over. The free agent frenzy of July 1 is in the rearview mirror, with just a few veteran stragglers taking their time to decide on their next (or final) stop.
All of that is still the case this year, but Danny Briere and the Philadelphia Flyers kept the frenzy going by tendering a five-year, $90 million offer sheet to Anaheim Ducks restricted free agent Leo Carlsson. The 21-year-old center was one of a few Ducks...
The Philadelphia Flyers lit off some fireworks early on Friday afternoon with Danny Briere tendering a massive five-year, $90 million offer sheet to Leo Carlsson.
The Anaheim Ducks are now in the middle of the seven days they have to match the contract, weighing their options with their own players, the salary cap, and what they could do with the four first-round picks they’d get in compensation if they let the top-line center walk.
The Ducks were threatened with another offer sheet ...
Do the Ducks have enough cap space to match the lucrative offer sheet for Leo Carlsson and re-sign Cutter Gauthier after re-signing Pavel Mintyukov to a five-year contract?
In today’s NHL rumors rundown, new details are shedding light on what really led to Brady Tkachuk’s exit from Ottawa. Meanwhile, the Toronto Maple Leafs are still hunting for a…
Back to business as usual following the 250th Birthday celebration for the United States of America this weekend. The Chicago […]
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The Philadelphia Flyers' signing of Leo Carlsson to a lucrative five-year offer sheet will make it difficult for the Anaheim Ducks to re-sign Cutter Gauthier. It could also affect other NHL teams' efforts to re-sign their RFAs.
I think it's important we set some axioms for discussion of Anaheim's Leo Carlsson signing an offer sheet with Philadelphia , because it helps a superficially mindblowing contract feel something closer to logical—both in that the Flyers were wise to offer it, and in that the Ducks would be fools not to match it. The first thing to be agreed upon is that Carlsson is very, very good: 21 years old, putting up better numbers every year, 67 points in his third season. Whether you think he's neared ...