How the Leo Carlsson offer sheet changes everything in the NHL

Do you remember the last contract supernova? It was 276 days ago that Kirill Kaprizov extended in Minnesota for $17 million per year. That was huge, yes. But, somehow, it seems pale in comparison to the nuclear fallout dropping from Philadelphia’s Leo Carlsson offer-sheet, making him (for now) the league’s highest-paid player: $18 million a year. Five years, not the current maximum of eight. A restricted free-agent, not unrestricted, unencumbered, as Kaprizov was-to-be. The Flyers (Daniel Briere, Keith Jones, Dan Hilferty, cap guru Barry Hanrahan); Carlsson and his father/son agents (Matt & Ryan Keator) rotated the league on its axis.…