Signing a player to an offer sheet is a great idea in principle but is rarely practical or fruitful, like hitchhiking at night or a live-action Garfield movie. It rarely works out the way it is intended and almost always ends with large groups of people upset over the time they wasted on the endeavor.
If you're expecting your favorite hockey team this summer to both sign a player to an offer sheet and have that player's current team fail to match, you will experience the same sadness as that hitchhiker in the trunk of the serial killer's car or the person who paid 10 bucks to watch Breckin Meyer talk to a cartoon cat.
Since 2005-06, eight players have signed offer sheets—Ryan Kesler, Thomas Vanek, Dustin Penner, David Backes, Steve Bernier, Niklas Hjalmarsson, Shea Weber and Ryan O'Reilly. Only Penner was allowed to walk away in 2007, as the Anaheim Ducks decided five years and $21.5 million from the Edmonton Oilers was too rich for their blood.
Looking at the available, eligible RFAs this summer, there's just no way that can happen again.
In order to execute the perfect poaching by offer sheet, the ...
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