Sportsnet’s Emily Sadler discusses potential targets for restricted free agent offer sheets this evening, and while offer sheets are rare in today’s NHL, she wonders aloud whether players like Lucas Raymond and Moritz Seider might be targeted by teams looking to offer the Red Wings’ duo of young stars more money than Steve Yzerman is planning on giving them:
The market-setter: Lucas Raymond + Moritz Seider, Detroit Red Wings
It’ll be near impossible to pry either one of Steve Yzerman’s prized top young players out of Detroit. Both Raymond and Seider are integral parts of the Red Wings’ rebuild and the team is well-situated to pay them both accordingly.
Yzerman is swimming in cap space — more than $20 million, according to CapFriendly’s latest projections — and could match any offer. Whether someone swoops in and sets the market for him is likely the bigger question here.
Continued; the Red Wings aren’t going to let either player go away, but I do believe that there’s a small possibility that someone will toss them a $10+ million offer in an attempt to “set the market” as there are young players that are earning that kind of money today (think Rasmus Dahlin).
