Leo Carlsson MEGA offer sheet forced Ducks hand, but Anaheim MUST match Flyers' deal | Ducks in Deep

So with all that said, there's a lot to get into.

Let's get in deep.

All right, let's get into the news of the moment.

Everybody strap in.

This is going to be quite the conversation as we talk about.

maybe the biggest hockey contract news of the last five years.

You can say things like Kirill Kaprizov signing last year, but that's obviously been surpassed today as Leo Carlson signs an offer sheet with the Philadelphia Flyers, a five-year, $18 million per season contract, $90 million total.

And that 18 million per season number makes Leo the highest paid player in the league.

No matter if the Ducks match this offer, which they have seven days to match, or whether they don't match and Leo becomes a Philadelphia Flyer, it will be the highest paid Average annual value against the salary cap in the NHL in NHL history, as far as I can tell, you know, it's it's it's crazy.

And again, to round out the conversation there, if the Ducks don't match, they will get the Flyers next four first round picks.

It's a bombshell.

It's not something that I thought we had considered.

It's not something that I was looking to.

Like last Friday when we went into the draft, there were some rumors about Mason McTavish.

I was having plans for the day.

The Ducks didn't have any first-round picks, but I said...

You know, there's some rumblings just in case I will bring my laptop.

And obviously it was necessary as I'm out and I spend most of my time instead of talking to my friends.

I sat next to my friends writing out my story and everything that went along with the Mace McTavish stuff.

That was a crazy day in itself.

But today it's everybody's day off from work with the 4th of July tomorrow.

It's...

An unassuming day.

There hadn't been anything in the water, as far as I could tell.

We were all just kind of sitting, waiting.