Welcome to your 32 thoughts Summer Surprise Out of Nowhere

podcast brought to you by the 2024 GMC Sierra Elevation and Montana's Barbecue and Bar.

I've been a little bit off hockey, doing some Olympics, relaxing, but got some notes over the past couple of days and some big things

happen so I figured why not drop a surprise pod on some people and see if they

enjoy it so I hope you do.

Okay, first of all, the thing everybody was talking about on Tuesday, the offer sheet.

The St. Louis Blues, Doug Armstrong, with a stunning announcement on Tuesday

morning that they had offer sheeted two members of the Edmonton Oilers, Philip Broberg

and Dylan Holloway.

Broberg, two years, 4.58 million AAV.

A second round pick, if Edmonton doesn't match.

And Dylan Hallway, two years, 2.29 million A. A third round pick if Edmonton doesn't match.

Now some people said could Edmonton trade these guys? No, they're locked in.

And if Edmonton matches the offer sheets

and they have seven days, they cannot trade

those two players for a calendar year.

So that's their contract that can't pick and choose

parts of the deal that they want to agree to or not.

If they are signing these players and they are keeping these players,

they have to match the contract exactly and

cannot trade those players for a year either Broberg or Holloway and one of the

things that's interesting about this is that St. Louis went to the maximum

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