[Confirmed] Vancouver signs Backes to Offer Sheet

[smack]

As per tsn.

Not bad. 2.5/year.

[SirKnight]

Not the first RFA I thought would get an offer sheet...

[lanky522]

giving up very reasonable compensation though... only a second rounder if St. Louis decides to let him walk.

I bet they match it...

[WildHendy]

Guarenteed they match..Gillis makes more friends.:kiss:

[lanky522]

WildHendy wrote:

Guarenteed they match..Gillis makes more friends.:kiss:

it\'s a dangerous thing...

New GM\'s trying to make an impact in the offseason for their team. You gotta watch out for these guys...

I\'ll be interested to see if Toronto goes after any RFA\'s via offer sheet. Their management is in a similar position as Vancouver...

[Chuk]

I\'ll be interested to see if Toronto goes after any RFA\'s via offer sheet. Their management is in a similar position as Vancouver...

Problem is that anyone worth signing is going to commande a decent salary. The leafs can not afford to give up any high draft picks.

I mean even if we offered a deal to a Perry-like player at the 5.2 million + salary, who wouldn\'t want 4 first round Toronto pick\'s?

We could rebuild someone else\'s franchise before \"ours\".

[lanky522]

Chuk wrote:

I\'ll be interested to see if Toronto goes after any RFA\'s via offer sheet. Their management is in a similar position as Vancouver...

Problem is that anyone worth signing is going to commande a decent salary. The leafs can not afford to give up any high draft picks.

I mean even if we offered a deal to a Perry-like player at the 5.2 million + salary, who wouldn\'t want 4 first round Toronto pick\'s?

We could rebuild someone else\'s franchise before \"ours\".

eh... i don\'t know about that...

I think that there are a bunch of reasonable RFA\'s that the leafs could offer similar (for 2nd round draft pick) type contracts to.

[hockeylifer]

I don\'t think that Mike Gillis cares about whether or not he makes friends. It is business. He is a lawyer, it is all about the law. I expect that he will be doing more of same. Personally I am glad to see him do it.

I don\'t think they will get Backes though. I would bet on St. Louis matching. It isn\'t like he offered 25 million, over 5 years, for a 40 point guy. At least it wasn\'t ridiculous.

[WildHendy]

hockeylifer wrote:

I don\'t think that Mike Gillis cares about whether or not he makes friends. It is business. He is a lawyer, it is all about the law. I expect that he will be doing more of same. Personally I am glad to see him do it.

I don\'t think they will get Backes though. I would bet on St. Louis matching. It isn\'t like he offered 25 million, over 5 years, for a 40 point guy. At least it wasn\'t ridiculous.

it is a buissness but it\'s also a small fraternity and you can quickly lose buissness partners,not saying it was unreasonable but i think it was fairly obvious STL. wouldnt let it happen,thus all that was accomplished was ill-feelings and a possible burnt bridge.

[angus]

these guys are paid to win, period. Offer sheets are well within the rules.

[Hardyvan123]

Blues matched so good try, but I agree with angu business is business, Brian burke really should shutup about the Oilers signing Penner, he was caught with his pants down and he is still embaressed.