Welcome to your 32 thoughts summer surprise out of Nowhere podcast brought to you by the 2024 GMC Sierra elevation and Montana's barbecue and bar.
I've been a little bit off hockey, doing some olympics, relaxing, but got some notes over the past couple of days and some big things happened.
So I figured why not drop a surprise pod on some people and see if they enjoy it.
So I hope you do.
Okay, first of all, the thing everybody was talking about on Tuesday, the offer sheets.
The St.
Louis Blues Doug Armstrong with a stunning announcement on Tuesday morning that they had offer sheeted two members of the Edmonton orders, Philip Broberg and Dylan Holloway.
Broberg two years, 4.58 million AAV, a second round pick if Edmonton doesn't match and dylanous hallway two years, 2.29 million AAV, a third round pick if Edmonton doesn't match.
Now some people said could Edmonton trade?
These guys know they're locked in, and if Edmonton matches the offer sheets and they have seven days, they cannot trade those two players for a calendar year.
So that's their contract.
They can't pick and choose parts of the deal that they want to agree to or not.
If they are signing these players and they are keeping these players, they have to match the contract exactly and cannot trade those players for a year, either Broberg or Holloway.
And one of the things that's interesting about this is that St.
Louis went to the maximum they could offer each player for those compensations.
If they had offered Broberg or Holloway a dollar more, it would have cost more than the second or the third.
So this was targeted and this was strategic.
Now, the interesting thing about this, and there's a lot of different ways we can luck, but the interesting thing about this, let's start in a couple of different places.
First of all, everybody knows how captite Edmonton is and they're working on an extension that most people believe is going to happen for Leon Drysiedel sometime over the next little while.
So one of the things that kind of happened was I had heard that Broberg was asking for from Edmonton a salary in the one eight range.