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There is a real cost to a team “retaliating” via a future offer sheet: They would need to offer up a contract for a player that is big enough that the Flyers would, at minimum, consider not matching. No team is going to do that just “for a friend”. Will Anaheim pull something in that regard like the Canes did to the Habs? Possible, but unlikely. The “retaliation” risk here isn’t really offer sheets to future Flyer RFA’s: It’s other GM’s being wary of working with Briere going forward. That’s why, I believe, Carlsson’s agent (almost 100% surely) “leaked” that 3 other teams were prepared to submit offer sheets for Carlsson as well…That gives Briere cover as “if it wasn’t him, it would have been someone else” comes into play.
There’s not a team in the league that would give their starting job to Hart right now. There’s no way a GM of any competence at all would, for instance, cast aside a goalie who has backstopped his team to game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals and game 6 of the Stanley Cup Finals in the past two seasons for a guy who hasn’t played competitive hockey at any level during that entire playoff span. Wherever Hart ends up, he’s going to have to play his way back over time.
