There's a rumor that an offer sheet could be made for the Red Wings' Lucas Raymond. How do you all feel about that? Every body love Raymond?
There's a rumor that an offer sheet could be made for the Red Wings' Lucas Raymond. How do you all feel about that? Every body love Raymond?
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The Red Wings are in the midst of a rebuild and would be insane to let him go, this has to be bullshit.
No because the wings have cap space to sign him, they are just negotiating just how much will go towards him. The amount we’d have to offer him to to keep a match out of their reach would be cost prohibitive and they would likely match anything we offered.
The reason the offer sheets worked on the oilers is because the didn’t have cap space to offer them anything other than true low ball deals and they needed flexibility for Drai next summer. The redwings WANT Raymond longterm, so an offer sheet would just make their job easier and end up helping them.
I guarantee at least 1 offer has been made already.
Just spitballing but why not offer him something like 4 years for the max of the 1st & 3rd comp tier ( I believe it’s ~6.8) ? It’s probably a bit below market for Raymond but it would allow him to be a ufa at 26 where he could look to cash in. Even if Detroit matches they will then have to deal with a cornerstone piece being a ufa and probably having to pay a premium to retain him down the line. Don’t hate the idea.
Umm no.
1. They have the cap to match anything anyone could offer
2. Even if they didn’t you might as well have offered them Quinn, Peterka, Levi or Byram with an unprotected 1st 2nd and 3rd round pick for Raymond straight up
3. Karma is a bitch… Edmonton is going to fuck over St Louis in a couple of years. St Louis basically bet that none of their prospects would be worth a damn in the next 2-3 years. Can’t wait to see who gets claimed or what Edmonton gets to not go after a breakout talent.
No
No. It’s waaaay to costly both in AAV and draft picks to successfully offer sheet someone like that.
You gotta do it…you offer Raymond forcing Detroit to pay him…the reason why teams do this ( have multiple players needing big contracts) is because they assume nobody will actually do an offer sheet..same thing with the leafs a few years back…if someone would have offer sheeted they were screwed…but t of course nobody did…the wi gs are a direct competitor…they have Raymond and seider hanging in the balance…time is now to strike