Jul 9, 2026 · 40 min · 23 segments
Anaheim Ducks ended a week of speculation on Thursday and locked down their franchise player. Ducks matched Leo Carlsson's offer sheet from the Philadelphia Flyers with a five-year, $18…
Zach CavanaghHost
Jack JanesGuest
And I'm the type of person that wakes up like mentally brain dead for like 10 minutes before I mentally wake up after a nap.
So I just woke up, saw the offer sheet, and I thought like the Ducks didn't match or something.
So I was like, what is going on? But after I finally mentally woke up and I dug more into it, Obviously, with an offer sheet of this magnitude, there's so many different thoughts going through your head.
How did they get here? What's this going to mean moving forward? Do they even match? Because obviously, record-setting offer sheet, $18 million a year, all the signing bonuses that are front-loaded.
I wouldn't say shock because you can kind of see this coming as the offseason started to begin.
There were reports that offer sheets might be flying around, especially to Leo Carlson.
But it's still shocking to see $18 million, even for a player that's Leo Carlson's caliber.
But I'm sure we're going to get into how they got here and what it is moving forward.
And I'm the type of person that wakes up like mentally brain dead for like 10 minutes before I mentally wake up after a nap.
So I just woke up, saw the offer sheet, and I thought like the Ducks didn't match or something.
So I was like, what is going on? But after I finally mentally woke up and I dug more into it, Obviously, with an offer sheet of this magnitude, there's so many different thoughts going through your head.
How did they get here? What's this going to mean moving forward? Do they even match? Because obviously, record-setting offer sheet, $18 million a year, all the signing bonuses that are front-loaded.
I wouldn't say shock because you can kind of see this coming as the offseason started to begin.
There were reports that offer sheets might be flying around, especially to Leo Carlson.
But it's still shocking to see $18 million, even for a player that's Leo Carlson's caliber.
But I'm sure we're going to get into how they got here and what it is moving forward.
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