Signing: 5 years, $90 million ($18 million per season); Restricted free agent offer sheet by Philadelphia Flyers<\/p>\n
This is one of those overpays that isn’t necessarily a bad idea or a bad overpay. <\/p>\n
I get why the Philadelphia Flyers signed Leo Carlsson to a five-year, $90 million offer sheet in restricted free agency and why the Anaheim Ducks are likely to match it. <\/p>\n
From a Flyers’ perspective, this was an opportunity to land a young, franchise-level player they would have never been in a position to draft anytime soon. He also fits in with the other players in their young core (specifically Matvei Michkov and Porter Martone) and can help fill the No. 1 center void they have on their roster. <\/p>\n
The only way they even have a chance at a player like this is to overpay in restricted free agency. <\/p>\n
Is Carlsson an $18 million-per-year player, and will he be one in the coming years? Probably not. And that, by definition, makes it an overpay. But it’s still a smart move. It’s still a move that is likely to pan out. If you are going to overpay for a player, it is better to overpay for a top-line player at the top of the lineup, because they will still give you big-time value and impact.<\/p>\n
It is the overpays in the middle and bottom of the lineup that hurt teams. This is not that. <\/p>\n
The big reason the Ducks have been so quiet this offseason is so they could protect themselves and potentially match any offer sheet. They are being tested. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Signing: 5 years, $90 million ($18 million per season); Restricted free agent offer sheet by Philadelphia Flyers This…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":782762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-782761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}