{"id":385332,"date":"2026-07-03T20:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T20:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/385332\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T20:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T20:23:10","slug":"flyers-tender-offer-sheet-to-leo-carlsson-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/385332\/","title":{"rendered":"Flyers Tender Offer Sheet To Leo Carlsson \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Philadelphia Flyers have tendered Anaheim Ducks centerman Leo Carlsson<\/a> to a five-year, $90MM offer sheet per Sportsnet\u2019s Elliotte Friedman<\/a>. The deal would make Carlsson the highest-paid player in the NHL and require Philadelphia to send four first-round picks to Anaheim, if the Ducks don\u2019t match.<\/p>\n

Philadelphia is calling the Ducks\u2019 bluff after Anaheim told teams around the league<\/a> that they would match any offer sheet tendered to Carlsson. Now, they will have to weigh the value of a deal $1MM richer than Kirill Kaprizov<\/a>\u2018s league-leading $17MM cap hit. Anaheim has $35MM in available cap space, per PuckPedia<\/a>, giving them plenty of room to add a new record-setting contract to the fold. The Ducks also need to assemble a new deal for Cutter Gauthier<\/a>, who is a 10.2(c) restricted free agent and can not be offer-sheeted.<\/p>\n

This deal will weigh heavily on the Ducks, who were hoping to re-sign Carlsson to a salary between $10MM and $12MM per NHL.com\u2019s Kevin Weekes<\/a>. That low price was intended to keep cap space available for emerging rookie Beckett Sennecke<\/a>, who will need a new deal in 2028.<\/p>\n

Signing Carlsson to a five-year deal would buy one year of unrestricted free agent eligibility. That\u2019s a valuable contingency, even despite Carlsson\u2019s potential salary topping the league. The 21 year old has shown a clear ability to step up as his team\u2019s top center through three seasons in the league. He finished second on the Ducks in scoring with 67 points through 70 games this season, two points behind Gauthier for Anaheim\u2019s scoring lead. The performance was a major stride forward after Carlsson potted 45 points in 76 games of the 2024-25 season.<\/p>\n

Philadelphia\u2019s offer sheet is an interesting bet on Carlsson\u2019s momentum over the last two seasons. The 2023 second-overall pick entered the NHL as a capable play-driver whose skating and mobility held him back. He has honed those abilities under NHL coaching, leading to a climb in his scoring. Even as he grew from 20 goals in 2024-25 to 29 goals this year, Carlsson\u2019s shooting percentage went down, from 17.5 percent last year to a more repeatable 15 percent this season. He also recorded a 44.4 faceoff percentage on 976 draws this year, up from a 41.4 faceoff percentage on 730 draws last year.<\/p>\n

The Flyers have found their wingers of the future in Travis Konecny<\/a>, Owen Tippett<\/a>, Matvei Michkov<\/a>, Porter Martone<\/a>, and Trevor Zegras<\/a> \u2013 though Zegras, still an unsiged RFA, was also tapped to fill an important center role through his first season in Philadelphia. Carlsson\u2019s addition would substantially improve the Flyers\u2019 center depth chart, which currently leans on Zegras and Christian Dvorak<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Philadelphia currently wields $29.03MM in projected cap space per PuckPedia. Should Anaheim let Carlsson walk to the Eastern Conference, the Flyers would be left with $11MM to re-sign RFAs Zegras, Jamie Drysdale<\/a>, and Nikita Grebenkin<\/a>. That could prove to be too tight of a budget, which may leave pricey contracts like Dvorak, Sean Couturier<\/a>, or Noah Cates<\/a> on the chopping block. Philadelphia would move out a significant amount of draft capital if Carlsson\u2019s deal goes through, then may need to spend even more future capital to clear out more cap space. On the other side, Philadelphia could still sit with a lineup capable of driving them through the remaining 2020s.<\/p>\n

Anaheim will have one week to match Philadelphia\u2019s offer sheet.<\/p>\n

This move harkens back to Philadelphia\u2019s 14-year offer-sheet extended to Nashville Predators\u2019 defenseman Shea Weber<\/a> in 2012. The Predators matched that offer sheet quickly, committing Weber to a contract that ended on July 1st of this season. The Hall Of Fame defenseman played his final NHL season in 2020-21 and saw his contract bounced around the league in cap-saving trades over the last five years. His deal, formally, concluded in the hands of the Chicago Blackhawks, who sent a fifth-round pick to the Utah Mammoth in exchange for Weber, defenseman Victor Soderstrom<\/a>, and forward Aku Raty<\/a> in March, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia Flyers have tendered Anaheim Ducks centerman Leo Carlsson to a five-year, $90MM offer sheet per Sportsnet\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,824,165,164,16181,46268,404,2067,2722],"class_list":["post-385332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-ducks","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-elliotte-friedman","tag-newsstand","tag-nhl","tag-philadelphia-flyers","tag-transactions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}