The modern day restricted free agent offer sheet is few and far between. As a matter of fact, zero offer sheets have been offered to a player since the Flames went after Ryan O’Reilly in 2013.
Offer sheets are dangerous animals. It requires money, draft picks, and more often than not, a big risk.
The last successful offer sheet came in July of 2007 when the Oilers pried Dustin Penner out of Anaheim at an offer sheet of five years and $21.5 million. In that move, Edmonton said goodbye to their first, second, and third-round draft picks in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft.