Article: NHL Insider Confident No One Will Offer Sheet Marco Rossi

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45 minutes ago, mnfaninnc said:

I need an exception on this comment. 1) Kaprizov is a far larger player than Rossi, his thickness is much more. 2) I point out Zuccarello, Freddy, and Spurgeon all the time as being too small. 

I disagree, Rossi may not have height, but he's a tank.  At 5'9" and 192 lbs, the dude has tree trunks for legs

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If Rossi doesn't get an offer sheet, and perhaps it's looking that way, he'll sign a two year contract just before camp (mid-Sept).  Why give BG any more additional time to try and find a trade partner, screw BG, that's just business.  Of course, STL had their offer sheets signed mid-August last year. 

I think the most frustrating part is the way BG has publicly handled the Marco situation.  Nickel and dime Rossi, then overpay Trenin, and take on the salary dump of Tarasenko, which I think is worth a shot.

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27 minutes ago, 0 Stanley Cups said:

I disagree, Rossi may not have height, but he's a tank.  At 5'9" and 192 lbs, the dude has tree trunks for legs

This take doesn't really pass the eye test.  Rossi is not the noodle on the puck that say Granny or Zuccy are, but he's no tank.

[B1GKappa97]

1 hour ago, Pewterschmidt said:

While I agree the Rossi camp is getting a reality check on his market value, I think GM’s are waiting for bill to shoot his load on 97 contract, then interested GM’s can sharpen the pencil on Rossi offer sheet knowing the #’s on bill’s financial bind.  
i now believe Rossi gets an offer sheet this summer.  

Not sure how Kaprizov matters for Rossi all that much.

Kaprizov is locked into his $9M AAV for this year and, even if that goes up $6M in future seasons, the salary cap of the NHL is expected to rise $8.5M next offseason and going forward so Kap's new deal shouldn't affect the cap space left over all that much. 

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1 hour ago, 0 Stanley Cups said:

I think the most frustrating part is the way BG has publicly handled the Marco situation.  Nickel and dime Rossi, then overpay Trenin, and take on the salary dump of Tarasenko, which I think is worth a shot.

Well that is partially because Trenin was a free agent who could sign with anyone and Rossi is a restricted-free agent and the team has far more leverage with him than they ever did with Trenin. 

Publically, Guerin has literally said he's not dying to trade Marco and wants him back, just at the value they have him slotted in at. So I'm not sure what's frustrating about that. Just because he didn't immediately cave into Rossi's overpaid demands??

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2 hours ago, TheGoosesAreLooses said:

In other news, Boldy just got put on the top ten contracts in the NHL right now. His market value (based on Dom's model) is 12.3M.

And that's why I didn't think the Wild should trade Boldy straight up for Mikko Rantanen when ODC was ranting about stuff like that.

Rantanen might be worth $13M, but he'd need to be paid around that while the Wild have Boldy at $7M for the next 5 seasons!!!!!

Basically, Boldy and Eriksson Ek for the price of Rantanen. Rantanen is a great player, but I'd rather have Boldy + JEE than just Rantanen. I believe Boldy is also still getting better, so could surpass Rantanen in production in those 5 years.

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1 hour ago, 0 Stanley Cups said:

I think the most frustrating part is the way BG has publicly handled the Marco situation.  Nickel and dime Rossi, then overpay Trenin, and take on the salary dump of Tarasenko, which I think is worth a shot.

Not sure what you mean by that. They offered Rossi the 5x5 contract when his only productive season had been a 40 point season. I guess he also indicated a 1 or 2 year deal would be at less than $5M.

Guerin has stated that he likes Rossi and would match any offer sheet.  He's offered more money to Rossi than every forward on the roster not named Kaprizov, Boldy, or Eriksson Ek, who are all more valuable players.

What Guerin hasn't said, but I believe to be true is that they'll go above $5M for a long term deal after his 60 point season, but they won't go to $7M.

Guerin hasn't said much about it, but when an agent will only discuss deals above what you deem to be reasonable, you do what Guerin is doing...letting them marinate on your position and come back to you after they've had a chance to think over their options. Guerin has been negotiating this correctly.

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3 hours ago, mnfaninnc said:

That would most certainly be matched by Guerin. If a team really wants him and doesn't just want to waste time, that number must be $7.03m or higher.

I would list the Ducks on that list too, but as for an offersheet, I'd take of CBJ. CBJ has got plenty of other assets to trade with besides using a '26 1, 2, 3. They've also got strength down their middle.

Yes, it would probably be matched by Guerin, but it is also more than he wants to pay. It would force his hand and could put the Wild in another salary cap conundrum. That could be advantageous to a team like Calgary. You either add 60 points to your team and take 60 points away from the Wild (how are they going to make that up this season?), OR you cash strap them and limit their future moves.

It's pretty obvious Billy made that statement to stop offers from coming in so he could low ball Rossi. Everything he has done to him is to devalue him and make this next contract smaller. He was probably just as surprised as everyone that Rossi put up 60 points last year, especially with Kaprizov and Ek out half the season. That wasn't in his "5 year plan", he didn't budget for it.

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I would hate for his to develop further in the RFA period to an 80pt guy steady and then give us the middle finger as soon as he hits UFA. 

If Billy is still the GM at this point, cya Marco! He's probably already counting the days. Boldy might feel the same way (especially now after that article), even Kaprizov. If Kaprizov doesn't sign for the full eight, that will be very telling. I certainly wouldn't want to play for the Wild under Billy and John. Not the way they manage players and contracts. Iowa is the poster child for mismanagement and none of the prospects want to be there. I wonder how players feel when they hear the Wild picked them. They are excited in the moment that they got drafted into the NHL and that may be enough. But then they look deeper into the franchise and go "oh shit".

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43 minutes ago, Scalptrash said:

Yes, it would probably be matched by Guerin, but it is also more than he wants to pay. It would force his hand and could put the Wild in another salary cap conundrum.

Say another team offers Rossi a 5x7 contract and we match.  We currently have $45,155,168 in cap space for 2026/27 and 8 roster spots to fill, 5 forwards, 2 D and 1 goalie.  Let's go on the high side and say Kap gets $16M, Rossi $7M, Gus $8M, Jiricek $2.5M and Lambos/Spacek $1.5M.  That would leave us with $10,155,168 for the remaining 3 forward spots.  If two of those players are on ELC's, that would leave us with around $9.4M for the last spot.  

I think the above salaries for Kap, Rossi and Gus are on the high side and if we can get them each for $1M less, having over $12M for one more forward would be great.  If we can't, $9.4M still isn't bad.

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10 minutes ago, SkolWild73 said:

Say another team offers Rossi a 5x7 contract and we match.  We currently have $45,155,168 in cap space for 2026/27 and 8 roster spots to fill, 5 forwards, 2 D and 1 goalie.  Let's go on the high side and say Kap gets $16M, Rossi $7M, Gus $8M, Jiricek $2.5M and Lambos/Spacek $1.5M.  That would leave us with $10,155,168 for the remaining 3 forward spots.  If two of those players are on ELC's, that would leave us with around $9.4M for the last spot.  

I think the above salaries for Kap, Rossi and Gus are on the high side and if we can get them each for $1M less, having over $12M for one more forward would be great.  If we can't, $9.4M still isn't bad.

Sorry, should be $8.4 left for last spot and over $11M if we get Kap, Rossi and Gus get $1M less.