Hurricanes tender $6.1M offer sheet to Canadiens’ Kotkanemi

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Published August 28, 2021 4:34 PM

By STEPHEN WHYNO
AP Hockey Writer

The Carolina Hurricanes have tendered an offer sheet to Montreal Canadiens restricted free agent Jesperi Kotkaniemi. It’s a one-year deal worth $6.1 million. The Canadiens have seven days to match or receive a first- and a third-round pick as compensation. Carolina offer-sheeting Kotkaniemi comes two years after Montreal did the same to Hurricanes forward Sebastian Aho. The Hurricanes matched that $42.3 million, five-year offer sheet. Carolina’s Twitter account posted the message “People don’t forget” in reference to the 2019 offer sheet tendered to Aho and mentioned the $20 signing bonus in Kotkaniemi’s deal. That’s Aho’s jersey number.

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