Should the Montreal Canadiens offer sheet or trade for Sebastian Aho?
By Omar L
Carolina saying they’re willing to match any offer sheet could just be a method to save face. If they were willing to give Aho a deal north of $9.5 million per, or around that stratosphere, Aho would be signed already.
The Montreal Canadiens have a lot of space, and with making limited signings and missing out on Duchene, the floor is wide open to add on some significant salary. Many are worried about the four first-round pick compensation for offer sheets, but Aho hasn’t impressed that much to get into that range of things.
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He would enter a realm with Connor McDavid, Auston Matthews, and, as of noon, Artemi Panarin. High-end centres do make more in the NHL but it would be way too strong of a jump after a single year. That said, it would be perfect for the Montreal Canadiens if they could get Aho, in the event of an offer sheet, beneath that $10.58 million cap hit.
If so, the Habs would only need to give up their own first, second, and third-round pick which wouldn’t be too much of a problem. The issue here is the competition.
Montreal isn’t the only team in on Sebastian Aho linking back to Lebrun’s first tweet in which he said the Habs were one of three teams to give the Carolina Hurricanes a call. If that’s the case, Marc Bergevin may find himself in a ‘free agent frenzy’ type of battle. The reason why a lot of these deals signed on July 1st are so outrageous is that you’re competing with other teams and driving up the price.