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2025 NHL UFA/Trade Thread

The fact that teams have more money to use for offer sheets also means that they have more money to fend off offer sheets. The Ducks have more than enough spare cap space to match any offer that McTavish is likely to receive.
 
Collusion?
Common sense.

Offer sheets rarely succeed at the best of times and the best of times isnt when every team has a ton of extra money with which to match offer sheets. McTavish might get traded but an offer sheet wont be enough to pry him away from the Ducks. They will match any deal offered.
 
It’s August 1 and I officially miss hockey.

A month from now, Carey will be traded. Then another two weeks to camp.
 
Common sense.

Offer sheets rarely succeed at the best of times and the best of times isnt when every team has a ton of extra money with which to match offer sheets. McTavish might get traded but an offer sheet wont be enough to pry him away from the Ducks. They will match any deal offered.
They rarely happen for top 6 players

Who wants to be the fool to handout 10+ mil to MM to even have Ducks think about not matching

Secondly you need a team to be totally capped out like Edmonton last year

Thirdly it screws up your internal cap if you have better star players who are next

When you connect all the dots they are rarely given out
 
Common sense.

Offer sheets rarely succeed at the best of times and the best of times isnt when every team has a ton of extra money with which to match offer sheets. McTavish might get traded but an offer sheet wont be enough to pry him away from the Ducks. They will match any deal offered.
Even one that would give them four 1sts?
 
What if those four first rounders turn out to be Terry Ryan, Matt Higgins, Jason Wsrd, and Eric Chouinard? Those are the Habs first round picks from 1995-98.

A McTavish in the hand is worth two Jason Wards in the bush.
What about Demidov, Hague, Reinbacher, Slafkovsky ?

Or Lafleur, Shutt, Gainey even if the 4th one is Cam Connor ?
 
But what if none of those 4 picks are in the lottery?

Anyway, Sharks-Ducks is setting up to be a bitter decade long rivalry at the top of the WC. We’ll see if Chicago can get in there too.
 
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