In the dead of the night Flyers owner Ed Snider spit in the face of the CBA that is in place right now in the NHL as Snider signed Shea Weber to a 14 year / 110 million dollars offer sheet where there is little to no offer sheets in the past. It will be hard for the Predators to match the deal as they would need 68 million dollars in bonuses over the first 6 years of the deal and they will need to come up with 28 million dollars over the first year and that is harder for the cash strapped Predators to handle than the 7.85 cap hit over the next 14 years. In the last 14 years there has been only 6 offer sheets signed and only Dustin Penner offer sheet is the only one that was not matched as the Ducks took a first, second, and a third round draft picks from the Edmonton Oilers for Penner.
The reality is that the NHL and the players union are negating a new CBA with the CBA right now as the CBA will be over on September 15, 2012 and the NHLPA Executive Director Don Fehr is rubbing his hands in glee over this deal for Shea Weber. This deal is putting the commissioner of the NHL Gary Bettman in a tough position as he is in the negations on behalf of the owners and with a deals like this along with the Zach Praise and Ryan Suter 13 /98 million dollars deals both with the Minnesota Wild this summer.
The NHL owners are going into the negations with the players wanting them to give a lot back with limits on the length of contract and want players to be play 10 years in the NHL before coming a free agent and no more salary arbitration for players. While they want a huge rolling back from the players and less revenue to the players and 5 year entry deal and it will be hard to take the owners serious after this.
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