Blockbuster Offer Sheet Coming From New Jersey !?!?!?!?

The NHL is a sensitive league, where you don't want to step on people's toes or hurt anyone's feelings. When you look at the option of submitting an offer sheet, that's a prime example of what would be more regular but it's not because of tradition. 

That all could be changing, and very soon.

Rumors are surfacing the New Jersey Devils have been contemplating one, and are inching closer to making an offer to a restricted free agent. 

Their target...Anthony Cirelli of the Tampa Bay Lightning.

Cirelli would be the perfect compliment piece down the middle to Jack Hughes and Nico Hischier. Tampa Bay is currently sitting in a vulnerable spot, with less than $4 million in cap space, and Cirelli, Erik Cernak and Mikhail Sergachev all left to sign. 

Cirelli finished last year with 44 points and will one day win a Selke trophy. The Devils will need to get back their 2nd-round pick for next year to make this pipe dream come true. 

New Jersey meanwhile, has almost $18 million available, and could easily offer Cirelli, who's 22, a 7-year deal worth around the neighborhood of $42 million.

What a tough spot for the player. Just wins a cup, may get offered a boat load of money that he knows would totally screw over his 'old' team...what to do, what to do?

Photo credit: Rich Graessle/Icon Sportswire

"I can tell you that, because I did not get the job as GM there and it was a big part of the interview.... They didn't give me the job, so it's out of the book." 🤣

Mike Futa says the @NJDevils are primed to sign an offer sheet.#NHLFreeAgency | #NHLonSN pic.twitter.com/beAQi0fw2Q

— Sportsnet (@Sportsnet) October 9, 2020