Contract Details for Scrivens, Rynnas

@ kb:
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It’s quite simple really – you front-load the offer sheet with two 10 million dollar seasons. Game over. They cannot afford to match that. Semin is only 6 million, and could be traded at their leisure instead of being strong-armed into a deal to prevent an offer sheet. Makes a ton of sense really.

@ kb:
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man, they can’t afford to match it. bob murray has said the most he wants to pay him is 4.5 million, because that’s really the most the club can afford. everyone alludes to all this cap space the ducks have, but they also have no players signed. if they signed ryan at 6 million, they’d have 37 million committed to just 9 players, and would still have to sign 6 defensemen, and 6 forwards. they have no checking line, and very few prospects that are ready to make the jump. if ryan is staying in anaheim, it will be for a discount, which is exactly why he will be gone.
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if all it took was slamming the ducks with a heavily front-loaded offer sheet like that, and really, that’s all it’s going to take, then tons of teams would be willing to do it, most notably, teams that are bound to be drafting in the bottom 3rd (san jose, los angeles, vancouver, etc…).
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Year 1 – 10 million
Year 2 – 8 million
Year 3 – 6 million
Year 4 – 3 million
Year 5 – 3 million
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They can’t match that. And even if they somehow could, moving Lupul and Blake are going to be next to impossible, Ryan would be making more than Getzlaf and Perry (who are both far superior to him), and they’d still have a ton of players to resign.

@ kb:
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No, they can’t afford him at 10 and 8 million, which is why you front-load the deal. And like I already said, you take Semin because he’s a player of greater value that’s already signed. If they like him, they can keep him for about 6 million, or they can trade him off at next year’s deadline for a return far greater than what they would get if they let Ryan go this summer. They get options by taking Semin, whereas they could get strong-armed into a deal in the summer with Ryan.
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Another reason they take Semin over the picks is because the next draft is apparently just crap. The last few drafts have been very strong, and so GMs were not, or should not have been so apprehensive about letting players go for a handfull of picks. However, if you end up with a team like San Jose putting in an offer-sheet, and taking back late round picks in a terrible draft, you clearly lost. Taking Semin avoids all question marks. And you’re hung up on this one year deal thing for Semin. Look at the return Kovalchuk and Kessel got. Semin is somewhere in the middle of the two, so if they don’t like him, the deadline return would be massive.
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Thing is, Ryan has all the control in this situation, and by swapping him for Semin, they get all the control back. They have to pay a little more than they want for a few months, but it would ultmately be far better than losing Ryan for late round picks in this draft. I guess the Buffalo argument wasn’t as sound, because it’s a completely different scenario.