Offer sheet season is almost here, and now teams know what it will cost to make one.
Here are the 2026 compensation thresholds for each tier of offer sheet, per Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman:
Teams can start talking to restricted free agents on the night of June 30, but nothing can be signed until free agency officially begins on July 1.
And remember that in determining the AAV of an offer sheet, you divide the salary by term length or five — whichever is lower.
There were no players signed to offer sheets last off-season, but two summers ago, the St. Louis Blues signed both Philip Broberg and Dylan Holloway to offer sheets that the Edmonton Oilers chose not to match.
