The steep increase in the salary cap does increase the odds of a team attempting to sign away another club’s restricted free agent. As the cap rises, so do players’ salaries, making that tactic a potentially expensive one.<\/p>\n
For example, it was rumored<\/a> Minnesota Wild center Marco Rossi sought a deal with an average annual value between $6 million and $7 million. He eventually settled for a three-year deal<\/a> worth an AAV of $5 million.<\/p>\n If Rossi was seeking $7 million annually, no other team was willing to make the offer. That’s probably because they felt the Wild would match, but it could also be that a rival club didn’t want to risk that he wouldn’t meet expectations.<\/p>\n Had Rossi signed an offer sheet, the compensation price would have been costly.<\/p>\n A contract worth between $4,680,076 and $7,020,113 would cost the signing team their first- and third-round picks in the 2026 draft. An offer between $7,020,113 and $9,360,153 would have cost a first-, a second- and a third-rounder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The steep increase in the salary cap does increase the odds of a team attempting to sign away…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-143441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}