[32 Thoughts] Elliotte's thoughts on Philadelphia and Anaheim
Final podcast of the season. Elliotte ran through every team individually.
Philadelphia
Elliotte couldn’t confirm Friday’s reports about Giroux to Philadelphia. Edmonton and Toronto were in there (Toronto may have been the most money). Another team in the mix thinks Giroux wants to go to Philadelphia but is waiting to see if another team can change his mind
The #1 reason the Flyers signed the offer sheet was because they wanted Carlsson. The Gauthier subplot is an added bonus
Philly was like “We need a star. We need a difference maker”
Montreal realized how far away they are this year after losing to Carolina. Well Philly got swept by Carolina a round earlier, so imagine how Philly felt
They aren’t drafting high enough to get that player
If Kaprizov hit the market this year, Philly was going to drop bags of cash on Kaprizov’s house. And Minnesota knew that
This had been something brewing. The Flyers’ other contracts are manageable
Briere had a lot of his business lined up and now he’ll know he’ll be a target
Carolina has made sure they’re not vulnerable after the Kotkaniemi offer sheet and threatening offer sheets of Evan Bouchard and K’Andre Miller. Philly will have to do the same thing
Elliotte thinks Philly want back on forth on if they’d really get that player. And Elliotte is a little surprised they didn’t go even higher with money, but they obviously knew what Anaheim was willing to do ($12.5ish). The Flyers beat that by a third
He thinks deep down the Flyers expect the Ducks to match
Briere is really good at misdirection
If they don’t get Carlsson, what else do they consider?
This is the way the Ed Snider created the Flyers
Noel Acciari screams “Philadelphia Flyer”
Anaheim
Pat Verbeek and the Ducks recognized a threat, but they didn’t recognize how big it was
The Ducks were saying they’d match any offer sheet, but Elliotte doesn’t think they thought it would go to $18m
The Ducks and Carlsson’s representatives met Friday morning. The Ducks’ offer was around $12.5m, the counter was in the $15m area
The Flyers knew they had to blow the Ducks out was the water. And Verbeek did not see that coming
Every team is looking at this and saying “We can’t allow this to happen to us”
Elliotte thinks Anaheim has to match the offer sheet. They don’t have a choice
Elliotte is sure Verbeek is looking around with what he could do with the 4 1st round picks, but he'd have to show how it makes sense to give up on Carlsson
Carlsson is Verbeek’s guy, the linchpin to his rebuild
Anaheim kept their roster a little bare bones to protect from this, yet they still walked into a bad spot
Elliotte assumes it was Carolina considering an offer sheet for Mintyukov, but Anaheim had made the commitment to sign him
