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It’s been a crazy couple of weeks for the NHL rumour mill, and on Tuesday a really wild one came from CSN’s Joe Haggerty: That the Boston Bruins were preparing a massive offer-sheet to Winnipeg Jets defenceman Jacob Trouba.

Offer sheets are rare in the NHL for all sorts of reasons, including the general need to overpay the player in dollars and to give the player’s team compensatory draft picks. According to Haggerty, this one would be spectacular in both areas:

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Now it appears the Bruins may be willing to put their money, and their assets, where their interest is, and come up with an offer sheet that totals a minimum of $47 million for Trouba’s services … The real price for the Black and Gold would be surrendering four first round picks, but the Bruins have made five first round picks in the last two years while stockpiling their prospect cupboard.

Such an offer wouldn’t quite be unprecedented, but it would be close. Shea Weber signed a richer offer sheet with the Philadelphia Flyers in 2012 and Thomas Vanek did with the Oilers in 2007, but in both cases the offers were matched. Those are only comparables of the salary cap era.

However, as Thomas Drance of Jets Nation writes, even the threat of such an offer sheet is worrisome for Winnipeg. Such a deal could be structured in a way where the Jets would be paying massive bonuses in the first few years at a time when the Canadian dollar is at a low ebb. In Drance’s nightmare scenario, Winnipeg could end up facing something like $25 million in payments over the next 12 months if the deal was constructed for maximum damage (which it almost certainly would be).