BOCA RATON, Fla. — Is this finally the summer?



We haven’t seen an offer sheet in the NHL since Ryan O’Reilly in 2013. Which wasn’t a very smart one as it turns out because when Calgary signed him to an offer sheet coming out of the 2012-13 lockout, the Flames forgot that because the player had played overseas that season he would require waivers before the Flames could put him on their roster.



So a damn good thing the Avalanche matched as it turned out.



Since then, nothing. Not a single offer sheet. Although according to sources, the Avs were thinking long and hard about offer sheeting Ottawa’s Mark Stone last summer, but it obviously didn’t come to pass.



Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, by now you know that youngsters such as Sebastian Aho, Brayden Point, Patrik Laine, Mikko Rantanen, Mitch Marner, Matthew Tkachuk, Kyle Connor, Timo Meier, Brock Boeser, Zach Werenski, Ivan Provorov and Charlie McAvoy...