u/jambajew42

This just popped up on my google photos memories doodlebopper, figured I'd share it.

Any pick used has to be your own pick and free agency doesn't start until after the draft, so it would be 2027 draft picks aside from the additional first-round picks in the two most expensive tiers. For those, it has to be two out of the next three years or four out of the next five years. You don't get to select which picks are given, they're just the next 2/4 that you have at the time the offer sheet goes through.

Also note that Offer Sheet AAV differs from standard AAV/cap hit in that, if a deal is five years or longer it's treated as though it's a five year term for purposes of this specific compensation. A 7x9M deal would still count as a 9M cap hit but the compensation would be the highest tier because 63M/5 years = 12.6M AAV

The Sharks do not own their 2027 second or third round pick which means, unless they reacquire them they're only eligible to offer sheet a player in the "free" tier (sub-1.58M) and the four firsts tier (11.94M+).

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Considering how rare offer sheets are and our lack of necessary picks, I don't think it's particularly like we'll be issuing any. The alternative is just trading for the RFA rights for a player which has the added benefit of not creating bad blood with the other team's management.

PS: I'm sure there's some sort of clarification that the GMs have as far as the overlap positions being in both tiers so if, for instance, if you offer sheet someone for $1,575,969 they know if no compensation is needed or if the third is needed. If not, I'd expect them to just offer $1 less because I highly doubt any player is going to decline a deal because it's off by $1.

I slapped together something really quickly that has all of the Sharks' winning combo numbers for the draft lottery and I intend to go through and update with remaining possible combos as we go along in the draft tomorrow. I'm pretty sure it's going to be handled the same way as last year so, up until the final drawing, they'll update with percentage chances but nothing telling you about what numbers are good or bad for you. Before the final number comes out they'll give each of the possibilities for each of the teams remaining.

Because I just slapped it together really quickly, it has one thing that's particularly janky. The way I update it is by applying a filter to the google sheet and finding all of the cells in that column that contain that number. Since numbers 10, 11, 12,.... contain "1" I've just written out those numbers (ten, eleven, twelve,...), otherwise they'd come up in the results after a 1 is drawn.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Z-4ZwFLOVW-Tw807yA4rOi3AqyKKm2oA7RE0lndvlk0/edit?usp=sharing

If anybody doesn't want to follow my live updates but wants to use it themself they can make a copy of my sheet and go from there. The process for updating is, after a number is selected add a filter for that number, copy the column with the number filtered, and paste it in another column. Then you're just going to create another filter after each number is added.

I'm sure we'll have a thread for the lottery itself and I'll post the link in there as well once we have it.