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NHL rumors: Leo Carlsson offer sheet drama seen as ‘fireable offense’ for Ducks’ Pat Verbeek
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The Anaheim Ducks could be put in a tough situation as Leo Carlsson signed an offer sheet with the Philadelphia Flyers for five years, $18 million annually. If the Ducks decide to match the offer, their salary cap would be ruined, and they won't be able to sign their other free agents. If they don't match, they'll get four first-round picks.
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It'll be up to the Ducks as they have a tough decision to make, but all of this could've been avoided a long time ago. That's why some people think that Pat Verbeek should be on the hot seat , according to ESPN's Greg Wyshynski.
"Consider that the Ducks could have probably landed Carlsson at eight years and $100 million last summer, based on what he said he was willing to agree on," Wyshynski wrote. "Now, it's $90 million on a five-year term. If his next contract runs around three years and builds on that AAV … well, the Ducks' front office just cost the Samueli family tens of millions of dollars that it didn't need to spend on a single player.
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"Plus, don't look now, but that wave of young stars who were supposed to power the Ducks for a decade has crashed. Drysdale, McTavish, Zegras and Olen Zellweger — traded to Buffalo — are gone. Carlsson could be gone. The Ducks have some young key core players — Gauthier, Jackson LaCombe, Beckett Sennecke — but suddenly perhaps not enough of them. There's certainly an argument to be made that Verbeek has the franchise trending in the wrong direction."
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If the Ducks had handled business earlier with Carlsson, they could've kept him at a lower price. Now, there's a chance that things can go completely sideways, and they possibly lose him altogether.
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