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Originally Posted by Ronin
STOP with the Weber talk. HE WILL NOT SIGN WITH THE CANUCKS.
He is an RFA...any offer the Canucks can table will be matched and would probably be considered a fucking good deal considering how much we could possibly offer under the salary cap. In the event that we offer him $15m a season or something stupid (I don't even think the rules allow that much), we'd have to give the Preds our next FOUR first round draft picks.
...which, in case you haven't figured it out, WOULD BE STUPID.
I enjoy armchair GMing with the rest of you but c'mon...keep it within the fucking realm of possibility...
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No team is giving Weber ANY offers, Pred's have filed for arbitration which will let them keep him for up to the next 2 years when he is UFA eligible. If they can't sign him to a longterm deal before July 20, then he will sign a 1 or 2 year deal through an arbitrator. Either way, his becoming an RFA is irrelevant.
And throwing offer sheets out there is not as stupid as it sounds; Bobby Clarke offered Kesler 4 yrs at $1.9M. If it's as stupid as you are claiming it is, Burkey could have let Kes go and collected the 4 first rounders. And as we can now see, the $1.9M Kesler was making at the end of the contract term was a ridiculous deal. MG himself offered up the compensation when he signed David Backes to an offer sheet a few years back.
So if you COULD snap up somebody of Weber's stature for 4 potential prospects who may never materialize, it's not really that stupid. But the reality with Weber and Parise right now is that their teams have their assets protected for at least the next season.