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Welcome back to NHL Notebook — the series here at CanucksArmy where we deliver you news and notes from around the National Hockey League — oftentimes through a Vancouver Canucks-tinted lens! Well, the offer sheet hype was fun while it lasted. Both offer sheets tendered have now been matched by the original team. Ducks keeping Carlsson On…
In today’s NHL rumors rundown, the Anaheim Ducks make a franchise-defining decision on Leo Carlsson, Dylan Larkin’s trade situation takes a small but notable turn, and New Jersey Devils captain…
The Anaheim Ducks took a huge leap forward in 2025/26, and after taking out the Pacific Division rival Edmonton Oilers in round one of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, the future looked incredibly bright for a team that battled through a seven-year post-season drought beforehand.However, the early returns in the off-season have been less than stellar […] The post Anaheim Ducks Make Official Decision on the Future of Leo Carlsson appeared first on HEAVY .
The Ducks matched the offer sheet: Damn. Well, they said they would match any offer sheet on Carlsson, and they matched it. So Pat Verbeek stayed true to his word. Now he has the highest-paid player in NHL history. The contract is for $18 million AAV and it will certainly impact the effort to sign […] The post Leo Carlsson Will Not Be a Philadelphia Flyer appeared first on Crossing Broad .
The Anaheim Ducks are matching an offer sheet that will make center Leo Carlsson the highest-paid player in the NHL.
The Philadelphia Flyers took a big swing, signing Leo Carlsson to an offer sheet. However, their efforts fell short as […] The post Ducks Match Offer Sheet for Leo Carlsson, Flyers Big Swing Falls Short appeared first on Philly Hockey Now .
The Anaheim Ducks have now signed Leo Carlsson to a five-year contract worth a league-high $18 million per year. Here's what comes next for the Ducks and Philadelphia Flyers.
Well, it was fun while it lasted. We had the opportunity to dream of a bona fide No. 1 center playing for the Orange and Black for several days but it all now comes crashing down. The Anaheim Ducks have announced that they have matched the offer sheet of Leo Carlsson from the Philadelphia Flyers. The Ducks didn’t take all seven days they were allowed to, but instead allowed us to have a normal Friday and not spend it all day just waiting for the news to break. As announced by the team and...
The contract’s $18 million AAV is a new NHL record.
As we wait for the Anaheim Ducks and general manager Pat Verbeek to make their decision on the Philadelphia Flyers’ offer sheet to Leo Carlsson — we are slowly dying and losing the sense of what seven days means to our life, please rescue us from this hellscape and bring us to a new life where we know the result of this single transaction — little teensy tiny rumors are percolating through various people in the know around the NHL. And now, we know that the Ducks are at least possibly making m...
As part of the Anaheim Ducks’ opening moves at the start of the free agency period, they signed forward AJ Greer to a four-year contract worth $4.25 million average annual…
The Anaheim Ducks have until Friday to decide if they are matching the bombshell $18M AAV offer sheet the Philadelphia Flyers dropped on Leo Carlsson last week. Many insiders around hockey say they can't see a world where the Ducks don't match. If that's the case, where do the Flyers and GM Danny Briere turn next? Many are suggesting that Philly might see Columbus Blue Jackets' RFA Adam Fantilli as a Plan B offer sheet. Anthony Di Marco of Daily Faceoff has an answer for that: There have...
Plus: What top-four defensemen are still out there? Is Larkin a fit for the Ducks? And more.
It’s July 8, and two days from now the landscape for the Philadelphia Flyers will be a lot clearer. Right now things are in an antsy holding pattern. The offer sheet to Leo Carlsson might have pushed Claude Giroux’s possible signing off the table, while kicking the extensions to Trevor Zegras and Jamie Drysdale down the road a bit. If Anaheim Ducks general manager Pat Verbeek and his owner agree to bite the bullet and pay the 21-year-old center a whack of coin over the next 12 months, then he’...
In case you somehow haven’t heard by now, the Philadelphia Flyers have signed Leo Carlsson to a massive offer sheet . News broke last Friday that Carlsson agreed to the Flyers’ offer: a five-year contract carrying an $18 million AAV. If the Anaheim Ducks don’t match, the Flyers will land Carlsson, but it’ll cost them their next four first-round picks. Four first-round picks might sound like an enormous price to pay. And for a rebuilding team, it would be. But the Flyers are no longer in t...
The Philadelphia Flyers are completely frozen until they get word whether or not the Anaheim Ducks will match their offer sheet to star center Leo Carlsson. Nothing can be done without knowing if the 21-year-old Swede is going to be coming to Philadelphia along with his $18-million AAV that could make them pinch a whole lot of pennies for the rest of the offseason. Anaheim has until Friday afternoon to make their decision and we’re just waiting here, thinking of various reasons why the Du...
The Ducks could have difficulty re-signing Cutter Gauthier regardless of whether they match Leo Carlsson's offer sheet, plus the Hurricanes could be considering more offer-sheet shenanigans.
It has been eerily quiet around the NHL since the Philadelphia Flyers tendered an offer sheet to Leo Carlsson on Friday. Pat Verbeek and the Anaheim Ducks are in the second half of the seven-day period they have to decide whether or not to match the five-year, $90 million contract for their 21-year-old restricted free agent. Of course, that contract is heavily front-loaded with signing bonuses to boot, as the Flyers wanted to add even more pressure to Anaheim’s ownership. While the d...
The NHL should be thanking the Flyers for playing the villain and signing Leo Carlsson to a massive offer sheet. The now-heightened animosity between them and the Ducks is what the game needs.
Remember how crazy it was last fall when the Minnesota Wild signed Kirill Kaprizov to an eight-year, $136 million extension that made him the NHL’s highest-paid player by $3 million?…
The deal will carry an AAV of $900,000.
The Flyers’ offer for the emerging star sets an NHL salary record.
The Philadelphia Flyers put the Anaheim Ducks in a blender by signing their franchise player Leo Carlsson to a five year $90 million offer sheet last week. This has put Ducks general manager Pat Verbeek in a difficult situation as he has to navigate a murky offseason situation. Either way, Anaheim loses something here as […] The post Ducks Matching Leo Carlsson Offer Sheet Not Set in Stone appeared first on HEAVY .
The Edmonton Oilers and other teams in the Pacific Division should be sending flowers and chocolates to the Philadelphia Flyers front office. A nice card should read, “Thanks for sending the Anaheim Ducks a poison pill.” Because that’s exactly what they did in signing Leo Carlsson to a five-year, $18 million AAV offer sheet. It’s…
The Anaheim Ducks were targeted for payback in the Leo Carlsson offer sheet, a move that was a long time coming. The post Ducks Targeted for Payback in Carlsson Offer Sheet appeared first on HEAVY .