{"id":117759,"date":"2021-09-04T15:24:51","date_gmt":"2021-09-04T19:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=117759"},"modified":"2021-09-04T17:24:52","modified_gmt":"2021-09-04T21:24:52","slug":"carolina-hurricanes-offer-sheet-jesperi-kotkaniemi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/09\/04\/carolina-hurricanes-offer-sheet-jesperi-kotkaniemi\/","title":{"rendered":"Carolina Hurricanes Successfully Offer-Sheet Jesperi Kotkaniemi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/08\/26\/hurricanes-extend-andrei-svechnikov\/\" target=\"_self\">Carolina Hurricanes<\/a> have offer-sheeted RFA forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/kotkaje01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jesperi Kotkaniemi<\/a> to a one-year, $6.1M contract. The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/08\/27\/canadiens-sign-ryan-poehling\/\" target=\"_self\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a> are currently holding his signing rights and have seven days to match the offer.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"pl\" dir=\"ltr\">We&#39;ve tendered an Offer Sheet to Jesperi Kotkaniemi \ud83d\udc40 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4Mmw3n4DVr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/4Mmw3n4DVr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Carolina Hurricanes (@Canes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Canes\/status\/1431731232811978759?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 28, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:\u00a0<\/strong>The Canadiens have declined to match Kotkaniemi&#8217;s offer sheet. He&#8217;s now officially a member of the Carolina Hurricanes franchise.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Canadiens will not match the Hurricanes&#8217; offer sheet to Jesperi Kotkaniemi. Montreal will receive Carolina&#8217;s 1st- and 3rd-round 2022 Draft picks as compensation.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GoHabsGo?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#GoHabsGo<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ErFdL2ucEb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/ErFdL2ucEb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Canadiens Montr\u00e9al (@CanadiensMTL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CanadiensMTL\/status\/1434264047046778884?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 4, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Hurricanes Ink\u00a0Jesperi Kotkaniemi to Offer Sheet<\/h2>\n<p>The day has come that Montreal has gotten an offer sheet for one of their players. And of course, it comes from the Hurricanes. For those who don&#8217;t remember their history, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/07\/01\/montreal-canadiens-offer-sheet-sebastian-aho-of-carolina\/\" target=\"_self\">the Canadiens offer sheeted<\/a> Hurricanes forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=ahose01,ahose02&amp;search=Sebastian+Aho&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sebastian Aho<\/a> back in 2019. Aho stayed with Carolina, as they matched the offer, but the bad blood is apparently still here. The contract offered to the player has a $20 signing bonus, Aho&#8217;s number with the Hurricanes.<\/p>\n<p>This offer puts Montreal in a very delicate position, as their cap situation is chaotic at the moment. Delicate is probably an understatement. The Canadiens have no cap space to match the offer &#8211; or sign anybody, in that matter. They&#8217;re already over the cap Kotkaniemi was their only unsigned player. This probably means they won&#8217;t even try to match the offer. If that happens, Carolina will send their first and third-round picks for the 2022 NHL Draft to Montreal as compensation for the signing.<\/p>\n<h3>What This Means For The Future<\/h3>\n<p>Kotkaniemi is a 21-year-old centre that is on his way to his fourth NHL season. Throughout 171 regular-season games, he has 22 goals and 62 points. Before getting the nod to the NHL, Kotkaniemi played one season in Finland, with his Liiga team, \u00c4ss\u00e4t. During his time in Finland, in the 2017-18 season, he scored 10 goals and 29 points in 57 games.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Hurricanes president and general manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/w\/waddedo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Don Waddell<\/a>, the 21-year-old player wants to go to Carolina. \u201cHe sees the core we\u2019ve built here and he wants to be a part of that. We\u2019re proud, but there\u2019s still a waiting period. When you make an offer like that, we saw a vulnerable position. The offer, with the compensation and the core we have, we realized that it was the best chance we had to get the player.\u201d, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/montreal-canadiens-carolina-hurricanes-jesperi-kotkaniemi-1.1686991\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said to TSN<\/a>. The statement is similar to the one the Habs made about Aho signing with them.<\/p>\n<p>Kotkaniemi helped the Habs get to the Stanley Cup Finals this past season, scoring five goals and eight points throughout 19 Stanley Cup Playoff games.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"NtSB-vWdS-hKeQ--DmoA8w\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1233778884\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'NtSB-vWdS-hKeQ--DmoA8w',sig:'9GqBYqGXaAQ5H0cubk3ey0EZby3lLRkyjWjv7fzWUGE=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1233778884',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Carolina Hurricanes have offer-sheeted RFA forward Jesperi Kotkaniemi to a one-year, $6.1M contract. The Montreal Canadiens are currently holding his signing rights and have seven days to match the offer. We&#39;ve tendered an Offer Sheet to Jesperi Kotkaniemi \ud83d\udc40 pic.twitter.com\/4Mmw3n4DVr &mdash; Carolina Hurricanes (@Canes) August 28, 2021 UPDATE:\u00a0The Canadiens have declined to match Kotkaniemi&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3683,"featured_media":117763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4547,34,4548],"tags":[3255,264,955,705],"class_list":["post-117759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hurricanes","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","tag-don-waddell","tag-marc-bergevin","tag-nhl-news","tag-sebastian-aho"],"modified_by":"Josh Erickson","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3683"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}