Why The Ducks Don’t Have To Worry About Being Offer Sheeted On Lukas Dostal, Mason McTavish

Why The Ducks Don’t Have To Worry About Being Offer Sheeted On Lukas Dostal, Mason McTavish

After what we saw last year with Dylan Holloway and Philip Broberg, this Summer could be the offseason when NHL general managers finally get aggressive with offer sheets. Frankly, I’m not sure why it took this long to happen, but that’s a story for another day. The Ducks have two interesting players who could theoretically be hit with offer sheets in Mason McTavish and star goalie Lukas Dostal. The good news is nobody is going to actually try it unless they’re incredibly stupid.

With $38 million in projected cap space, there’s really no incentive to send in an offer sheet for McTavish, Dostal, or anybody else in the future on this Ducks roster. Mostly because they can pretty much match any offer sheet they want. And if you try to mess with an offer sheet for one of their young players, they have money to burn and can take revenge any time they want to.

CapWages projects McTavish for a six-year contract at $6.7 million per year and Dostal to ink a four-year, $5.2 million AAV deal. Both of those deals are incredibly reasonable given what those two should turn out to be. As nice as it would be to send in an offer sheet for one or both, where the Ducks are cap wise it just doesn’t make any sense for a rival to try to snag them. Even if it works, the future consequences probably aren’t worth it.

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To close things out, if you’re looking for what the offer sheet thresholds table will look like this offseason, feel free to check it out. To me, people should be talking about whether they can pry Matthew Knies out of Toronto…

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