Landon Ferraro on Leo Carlsson and the Changing NHL Landscape
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Let's make a huge impact together. And we are going to be giving away a pair of tickets to Sunday's game between the Mariners and the Blue Jays. So stay tuned for that coming up in a little bit here on the show. But let's go to the Able Auctions hotline and welcome in our next guest. It is Landon Ferraro, former NHL and current Sportsnet analyst. Landon. Great for you to join us today. And this has been such a great offseason in the National Hockey League. And today, the entire hockey world was shook to its core with Leroy Carlson signing a five-year offer sheet worth $18 million from the Philadelphia Flyers. Now the Ducks have seven days to match. What was your reaction seeing that come across the wire?
I mean, first off, just... how much more exciting the past three weeks has been than the entire past season for us covering the Canucks. So much fun. Such a different end of the spectrum. But you see that come through, and I was a bit busy this morning, so I was moving around, and then I ended up going to have a coffee with my dad, and he's like, have you seen what happened? So you look at it, it's just crazy to me. that this stuff is starting to happen and how different the NHL scene, like the whole system of it is changing. I love it. I love that teams are starting to get way more aggressive and take swings at things and really start to move around. I mean, again, like to be Philly and to throw that in and just know that regardless of what happens,
You've thrown a massive wrench in a team that, as you're looking at it, looks like they're going to be a real issue in the league for another 10 years with how they're building.
Is this two pronged as well of a team's willing to be more aggressive with the idea of presenting the offer sheets? And also, again, we're talking about player empowerment. I think players nowadays are open to the concept of signing offer sheets, whereas I mean, you can take me through it. Like how prevalent was the conversation amongst teammates or friends in the league about wanting to sign offer sheets?
I don't remember ever talking about them really, right? Like, they were so few and far between that it was kind of that anomaly when it popped up. But for the longest time, it was always just, you know, GMs didn't want to piss off other GMs. And players, there was such a... I don't want to say that loyalty is not a thing because when a guy is playing for that team and they're chasing a cup, the loyalty is there and they'll do what they can. But at the end of the day, the players have finally flipped to, okay, we give all this loyalty and are supposed to be grateful that Team A drafted me and signed me. Yeah, but if that team didn't draft me, the next team would have, and they would have paid me.
Like, you are a commodity as well, and you don't have to just accept what's there. If you can make yourself a better deal within the rules, which it obviously is, then take full advantage of it. And I think players, and as much as his teammates would be disappointed if he's gone, Like, they're not going to be mad at him. They would have done the same exact thing if someone decides to throw an extra, what, four or five million on top of what he probably would have signed for.
Yeah, I mean, it's one of those things where... The Anaheim Ducks, in my estimation, are in such a tough spot after this because not only did they have to sign their own guys, they needed the money to go out and improve their blue line, which is very thin right now without having made any additions of losing the guys that they've lost throughout the course of the offseason already.
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