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Jeff Marek thinks Ducks won’t match Flyers’ Leo Carlsson offer sheet

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 ...

The Ducks Screwed Themselves

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 ...

Around the NHL: Flyers await Ducks’ Leo Carlsson decision, top 5 free agents still available

We are less than a week into free agency, and the 2026 NHL offseason has delivered some very entertaining storylines. From some ‘sticker shock’ on some of the free-agent contracts being handed out to middle-six forwards, to a wild offer sheet that’s turned the entire league on its head, it’s been as wild and whacky…

Lightning Morning News: Flyers’ offer sheet will affect more than just the Ducks

One advantage to having a prospect tier ranked in the lower-third of the league is that your players rarely attract offer sheet attention. It also helped that the Tampa Bay Lightning didn’t have any restricted free agents on their depth chart after they opted to not tender a contract to Ethan Samson (who signed with Montreal), so they can sit back and watch the Leo Carlsson drama from a comfortable distance. At some point this week, Pat Verbeek will make his decision about Carlsson, a bud...

Monday Morning Fly By: Axis shifted

*Huge news, folks! If you were spending your holiday weekend somewhere completely off the grid, you may have missed it, but the biggest splash of the offseason was made when the Flyers tendered an offer sheet to Anaheim’s Leo Carlsson. [ BSH ] *And there is truly so much to unpack with this one. [ PHLY ] *It’s certainly a move that made waves all around the hockey world. [ BSH ] *And the Flyers weren’t even the only team considering throwing an offer sheet at Carlsson, but he ch...

What Pavel Mintyukov’s new contract means for the Flyers and Leo Carlsson

The Flyers put the entire Anaheim Ducks’ organization and cap structure into a total mess with the record-breaking offer sheet of Leo Carlsson on Friday, and we are starting to see the true fallout to the Ducks’ cap.  On Sunday afternoon, the Ducks signed 22-year-old RFA defenseman Pavel Mintyukov to a 5-year, $7.2 million-AAV contract, according to Elliotte Friedman. That comes after a report that the Ducks were aware of a looming offer sheet for Mintyukov from at least two other te...

Frank Vatrano Becomes Trade Candidate for Ducks

The Anaheim Ducks ' front office has suddenly become the busiest in hockey. They're in the midst of deciding how to proceed with the $18M AAV offer sheet that Leo Carlsson signed with the Philadelphia Flyers . At the same time, they just salvaged another of their restricted free agents by heading off an offer sheet for Pavel Mintyukov with a big new extension .  But if they are planning on keeping Carlsson—and GM Pat Verbeek has said all along coming into the summer that they would match ...

Flyers’ Trevor Zegras and Jamie Drysdale file for arbitration — what it means

The Philadelphia Flyers have a lot going on right now. The main thing is obviously counting down the days that the Anaheim Ducks have to match their offer sheet of star center Leo Carlsson, but there are a couple of other pieces of business that need to get done too. Notably, locking up a couple of very good restricted free agents to new contracts. Well, those players have now kickstarted that process in this offer sheet matching waiting period. Both center Trevor Zegras and defensem...

The arrival of offer sheets is a double-pronged warning for the Canucks to lock up their key RFAs

Just when we thought this offseason couldn’t get any zanier…   The Philadelphia Flyers shocked the entire NHL, but especially the Anaheim Ducks, when they made a five-year, $90 million offer sheet to 21-year-old centre Leo Carlsson. The offer sheet, whether it stays with the Flyers or is matched by the Ducks, will give Carlsson…

NHL Notebook: Flyers make Ducks’ Leo Carlsson highest paid player with $18M AAV offer sheet

Welcome back to NHL Notebook — the series here at CanucksArmy where we deliver you news and notes from around the National Hockey League — oftentimes through a Vancouver Canucks-tinted lens!   Every year it seems there is some sort of threat that this summer may be the summer of offer sheets, but that speculation never really lives…