Flyers tender 5-year, $18M AAV offer sheet to Leo Carlsson

sportsJul 3, 202646716

Philadelphia Flyers general manager Daniel Briere announced the team has tendered a five-year offer sheet to Anaheim Ducks restricted free agent center Leo Carlsson. The contract carries an average annual value of $18 million and, per the Flyers statement, would require four of Philadelphia's first-round draft picks in each of the next four seasons as compensation. The Anaheim Ducks have seven days to match the offer under section 10.3 of the NHL collective bargaining agreement. Carlsson, born December 26, 2004, scored 29 goals and 38 assists for 67 points in 70 regular-season games last year and added 11 points in 12 Stanley Cup Playoff games while helping Anaheim reach the Second Round. The 6-foot-3, 208-pound center has 141 points, including 61 goals and 80 assists, in 201 career regular-season games and was selected second overall in the 2023 NHL Draft. The Flyers said they will have no further comment until Anaheim decides whether to match the offer or accept the draft-pick compensation.

Charlie O'Connor

@charlieoconn.bsky.social

Anaheim has said they'll match any offer sheet sent Leo Carlsson's way. Daniel Briere is going to make Pat Verbeek prove it.

994h ago

kaijujosh.bsky.social16

Even if they match, we just screwed over Cutter's team. 10/10 move in my books.

vbeets.bsky.social2

Turn this shit up, now it’s a party

fightinphils.bsky.social1

I like the thought, but I can’t imagine Anaheim letting him go (even at $18 million AAV). Would be incredible though.

Elliotte Friedman (Bot)

@notfriedgehnic.bsky.social

The Flyers have done a 5 x$18M offer sheet for Leo Carlsson

744h ago

Ethan🏴‍☠️11

I’m no ducks fan, but take the picks and watch the flyers go into cap hell seems like the play here.

Stef Barnes1

Has Verbeek challenged Briere to a barn fight yet?

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Ed Burmila17

Absolute violence lol Time to reset the salary structure for the entire league

ex-Lethality Jane10

Jason Robertson's agent turning to the Dallas Stars front office like "so about that $14M number we were looking for"

WheatNOil9

I’m sorry… What? I have not stared at a contract this long without comprehending the numbers I’m looking at since Deryk Engelland got $2.9M x 3 years and I was sure they meant $2.9M OVER 3 years.

gloria ⛤7

after all the stars-centric drama, i really needed this. it's fun to just be in the audience eating popcorn

Totally Offside5

Holy Christ. The flyers are not playing

daily dose of estragon3

I deeply regret to inform you that the Flyers have done something cool and good, and doubly regret to inform you that the Flyers have joined the 2-3 clubs trying to actually win and not just get along with their buddies

Kasey Kagawa3

The Ducks cannot afford to match this, this is full-on half their remaining cap and they still need to sign Gauthier, but they cannot afford to not match this, Carlsson is the anchor of their one real line (also Byfield and Clarke took discounts to stay in the Kings and signed early just sayin)

mattkoz2

I would like to join this discourse, but I do not stay up late enough anymore to know anything about this player.

maple! 🦊💜 🔜 Fur-Eh2

Briere slammed his nuts on the table

Sara2

dude’s about to be the highest paid player in the NHL. lol AND lmao

Joe Yerdon

@joeyerdon.bsky.social

The Shea Weber offer sheet deal just ended and now the Flyers celebrate it by hitting signing Leo Carlsson to a whopper of a sheet

584h ago

hannah6

sakldjf;lasd i literally just sent that to the group chat. they just had to do another big one.

CJ Fogler4

I'm almost at a loss for words. Almost

Philadelphia Flyers

@notflyers.bsky.social

We have tendered an offer sheet to Anaheim center Leo Carlsson. The offer is a five-year contract worth an average annual value (AAV) of $18M, which would require four of the Flyers first-round draft picks in each of the next four seasons as compensation. [1/2]

333h ago

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pork, cheese, broccoli rabe17

we have to give them SIXTEEN first round picks???

LW3H2

The pedant in me points out that not only does this read like the Flyers think the compensation is 16 first round picks in total but that they don’t know the picks can be spread over five years not just the next four

Joe: Flyers Sicko2

Yo? The Flyers? YO! The Flyers!

Rachel Donner

@rmiriam.bsky.social

I love the Flyers offer sheet from a pure Chutzpah standpoint. Chaos is incredible.

353h ago

Philip A Rooney II1

And I hate it for being a cap albatross and losing 4 1st round picks. Did Briere really need to pull a Paul Holmgren here?

vc610.bsky.social1

Listen, I may hate it come game 1. But here on July 3rd, give me ALL the Flyers chaos. I love it.

Broad Street Hockey

@broadstreethockey.com

THE FLYERS HAVE SIGNED LEO CARLSSON TO AN OFFER SHEET! LIVE NOW: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ksu...

274h ago

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Ryan Gilbert7

OH MY GOD IT'S HAPPENING!

Hockey Out of Context Loves Canada

@nhloutofcontext.bsky.social

Flyers fans eating real good today. Offer sheet Leo and got their old Captain Giroux back, in the span of an hour.

353h ago

EvolvingWild

@evolvingwild.evolving-hockey.com

Leo Carlsson is good (and still very young), but I can’t think of any contract that is even close to this. Our poor baby contract projection model. Look what they’re doing to it!

EH Player Card: Leo Carlsson 25-26: 80 Overall | 83 Offense | 14 Defense

Top line and unit TOI at EV and PP, low SH TOI

292h ago

phlyflyers.bsky.social

@phlyflyers.bsky.social

EMERGENCY POD! Check out @charlieoconn.bsky.social & @billadelphia.bsky.social reacting to the Leo Carlsson offer sheet: youtube.com/live/1G1X-rl...

PHLY FLYERS emergency pod thumbnail, featuring a photo of Leo Carlsson in front of an orange-lit arena.

231h ago

J.D. Burke

@jdburke.bsky.social

Pat Verbeek gets a lot of well-earned credit for the Ducks turnaround, but the Leo Carlsson and Cutter Gauthier breakouts were more or less predictable and walking them to free agency where a situation like this was possible is an overwhelmingly brutal, perhaps critical failure on his part

223h ago

FlyersGoalScoredBy

@flyersgoalscoredby.bsky.social

btw an offer sheet that gets to this point means the player signed the sheet. LEO WANTS US

223h ago

Adam Gretz

@adamgretz.bsky.social

"I get to become the highest paid player in the league AND don't have to negotiate with Pat Verbeek? Hell yeah, brother." -- Leo Carlsson, probably

184h ago

🦖rl🦕

@rlambert.bsky.social

new take: we can guess what the leo carlsson offer sheet means for the flyers and ducks, but it has much bigger implications for the rest of the NHL perfecttakes.beehiiv.com/p/offer-shee...

153h ago

Locked on Flyers Podcast

@lockedonflyers.bsky.social

The Flyers have signed an offer sheet to center Leo Carlsson. It's a 5 year deal at $18M AAV. The Ducks have seven days to match, otherwise the deal goes through and the Flyers would owe Anaheim 4 first round picks over the next 4 seasons. #Flyers

153h ago

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Rachel Donner14

The Flyers Ducks rivalry is low key the best in the NHL. Soap Opera City!