Barn Burner: Boomer & Pinder with Rhett Warrener - The Anaheim Ducks Must Make A Franchise-Altering Decision 😬 | BB Clips

Episode Date: July 7, 2026

Boomer and Rhett react to one of the biggest offer sheets in NHL history after Leo Carlsson accepted a massive five-year, $90 million deal from the Philadelphia Flyers. With an eye-popping $18 million AAV, the Ducks now face a franchise-altering decision: match the contract and make Carlsson the highest-paid player in the NHL, or walk away and collect four first-round picks in compensation. The guys debate what Anaheim should do, whether the Flyers are making a brilliant gamble or an expensive mistake, and what this blockbuster offer could mean for the future of offer sheets across the league.Video Link: https://youtu.be/mXemUtSuGa8#nhl #nhlshorts #nhlplayoffs #nhlpredictions #nhlhockey #nhlpicks #stanleycup #stanleycupfinal #anaheimducks CHECK OUT OUR STUFF ⬇️BARN BURNER MERCHhttps://nationgear.ca/collections/shirts/FlamesnationBARN BURNER SHORTS https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj_bcGtvvo-cW2DHEDZ6dEO5ePDmlhZc9&si=jo8iNGxT4ImhS2Y8📲 Follow us:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fnbarnburner/X (Twitter): https://x.com/barnburnerfn?lang=en🎧 Listen on:Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/be/podcast/barn-burner-boomer-pinder-with-rhett-warrener/id1648562889Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Mc6Qd5U22R2zbMlQ7RxIiProducer: Jack Haverstock Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

There was some kind of, and again, I'm just kind of going through. It sounded like there was, I think there's a belief that Anaheim is going to match. But you have to. There was talk that this morning, they might have done it. There were some websites that were showing him already as having signed with the new terms. But it sure does seem to put Anaheim in a tough spot. It's funny how you go from, you know, here's Verbeek. He's a tight ass.

He's a grinder. And that good on him. That's a good way of being business. Players have enough clout and leverage. When you have leverage over a player, you got to exercise that. And that's like, oh, shit. Well, that 18 million is more than 13 million. You probably could have had it for 13 million.

And then this Mitchikov's, oh, shit, he's enough. He could be offer sheet eligible, too. but now we're signing him for $7 million. Changes so fast. And now with Cutter Goce, he's going to get paid and Beckett Seneca is going to get paid. They're all of a sudden, you got real tough decisions to make even with a growing cap. Yeah. Again, I don't know what Anaheim's cap space or how they've planned it out, but it's certainly not this way.

Like they're thinking they're in the driver's seat because we've got the young kids. Yep, we're going to pay them for sure, but it'll be reasonable. and we can manage this. We're building. Now it's like, holy, yes, what are we? And there's plenty of guys. Yeah. I like it.

You'd like to conduct, if you're going to pay the money, you'd like to do it on your terms. You hate somebody else dictating your, your terms of business like Philadelphia. Here's what you're going to end up paying because we did this. Not even sure who it was. For pure entertainment and for curveballs and for. I mean, I'm trying to think of long term, does that screw it up for everyone?

Yeah. Like, you know, you picture a team like Winnipeg. Like, they have to build. There's teams that have been built and they have success and they've done a good job of it. Does this change at all? I don't know. I don't know. I mean, maybe we're overreacting to the rare occasion that this happens.

But it feels like this might be more common moving forward. Yeah, and maybe we said. I think we say that every time. Yeah, I wonder if we said the same thing when Aho signed and when Shea Weber signed with Philly and all that sort of thing. But gentle reminder for GMs, though. Tis, it is a gentle reminder. Not just taking care of your impending UFAs, because we've seen that basically, the UFA market kind of dwindles down because teams keep their own guys. Do you get to a point where it's the RFA market that's the more exciting thing to follow?

If you're a young player. So I might get paid when I'm 27 or 28 when I'm a UFA or offer sheets. What do we got? I'm not going to, I don't need to sign with my team if I have the ability to go to go RFA. Again, it's the elite players. It's the high end guys. But I guess it depends too. Does a team have the, they're going to pay you and give up four first round picks?

It's a big swing for Philly. I do give them credit. I assume they did it with the hopes and thinking they would get it done. Right? You wouldn't do it. I'm just going to F Anaheim. I don't think that's... No, I don't think it's a screw Anaheim thing.

Some people have brought that up. It's a lot of FU money for that, right? Yeah, I don't think it's an FU thing. I think they look at, again, that's why I try to do it from the Flames perspective. And I'm like, it makes sense. If I'm a Flames fan and Conroy had went and got Leo Carlson to sign 18, 20 million, whatever it was, I realize that probably next year we'd be in a, there's a possibility you're giving up a good pick.

But with Leo Carlson in the mix, are you finishing in the bottom five? I don't know if you are. And how do you get, and we saw this year, did we move up in the draft? There's only two ways of getting those guys like this, or if you get a lottery ball. And if you were going to trade,

you traded two firsts for Simone Nemich, who will talk about, So what would you, if you were going to trade for Leo Carlson anyway, what are you spending? It'd be more, but still.