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 ...
Do the Ducks have enough cap space to match the lucrative offer sheet for Leo Carlsson and re-sign Cutter Gauthier after re-signing Pavel Mintyukov to a five-year contract?
In today’s NHL rumors rundown, new details are shedding light on what really led to Brady Tkachuk’s exit from Ottawa. Meanwhile, the Toronto Maple Leafs are still hunting for a…
Back to business as usual following the 250th Birthday celebration for the United States of America this weekend. The Chicago […]
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The Philadelphia Flyers' signing of Leo Carlsson to a lucrative five-year offer sheet will make it difficult for the Anaheim Ducks to re-sign Cutter Gauthier. It could also affect other NHL teams' efforts to re-sign their RFAs.
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 ...
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…
The Avalanche made a minor addition on the blueline. The Anaheim Ducks avoided another offer sheet to another young player. […]
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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...
*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...
If Jason Robertson is changing addresses this summer, it will be via a trade.
While the big news on whether the Anaheim Ducks will match the Flyers five-year, $90 million offer sheet to young […]
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...
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 ...
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...
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…
The Philadelphia Flyers tendering a five-year, $90 million offer sheet to the Anaheim Ducks‘ Leo Carlsson was expected to have […]
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…
There are plenty of NHL stars who are RFAs and still waiting to sign a contract extension with their teams. After the Philadelphia Flyers tendered an offer sheet for the Anaheim Ducks' Leo Carlsson, how does that affect the other RFAs?
Philadelphia Flyers GM Danny Briere’s record-breaking offer sheet for Leo Carlsson was ruthless. And if the Anaheim Ducks match that offer, it may not be out of the question for Briere to pivot to Columbus Blue Jackets star Adam Fantilli.
As it stands, Leo Carlsson is going to be the highest-paid player in the National Hockey League next season. On Friday afternoon, the Philadelphia Flyers announced out of the blue that they have agreed to a five-year, $18 million AAV with Carlsson. A restricted free agent, the Anaheim Ducks have a chance to match, but…
The start of July only means one thing to hockey fans: the opening of the NHL’s free agency period. Eligible players will either re-sign with their teams or move to…
The Philadelphia Flyers stunned the NHL by tendering a record-setting five-year, $90 million offer sheet to Anaheim Ducks restricted free agent Leo Carlsson, carrying an annual average value of $18 million. If Anaheim declines to match within seven days, Philadelphia…
The Philadelphia Flyers sent a bombshell offer sheet in, signed by Anaheim Ducks center Leo Carlsson on Friday. Now, the […]
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God bless the USA! It’s a big party everywhere in the country celebrating America’s 250th birthday, so I imagine a […]