Matt Layman of Arizona Sports: Elliotte Friedman said on Barstool Sports’ Spittin’ Chiclets that he believes that the Arizona Coyotes were intending to offer sheet Toronto Maple Leafs forward Auston Matthews last season if he wasn’t re-signed by July 1st. The Maple Leafs thinking this as well.
“The Toronto Maple Leafs 100% believed that if Auston Matthews got to July 1 last year, Arizona was going to offer-sheet him seven years, the max,” Friedman said. “And I’ve looked at it, and people around the league have told me they believe that to be the case.