Confirmed with Link: Canucks re-sign D Alex Edler to 2-Year, $6M AAV Deal

[canuckfan75]

That was some good work by Jim Benning on this one.

 

[topched88]

Benning sucks but this is a great contract.

 

[Tim Calhoun]

Edler is still a child who is afraid of living anywhere else other than Vancouver. He was desperate to stay.

Screw Benning. Not giving him any credit here.

 

[PG Canuck]

Man, Edler must've really wanted to stay here if he took that deal.

I'll take it.

 

[Canucks LB]

The perfect deal, nice job jimbo

 

[member 290103]

For once Jimbo held out and used some leverage to make the player take less. Very "Gillis" of him. I suspect if Linden were here, Edler would have a 5 year contract with full NMC.

 

[Fire Benning]

Rare transaction that seems to be unanimous on HfCanucks.

 

[Sunan]

Great re-signing Canucks fans. Definitely a win-win for both sides.

 

[I am toxic]

Process? Not enough info to judge, and it's secondary to:

Result? Awesome. Benning. Deserves. Full. Credit. Full. Stop. Period.

 

[Canucks LB]

Nice deal. If it saves us from 7x7 for Gardiner even better.

Uhhh You do understand that signing this deal, is the starting point

Jim said he’s completely changing our defence this year.

Getting Edler Signed is basically the bare minimum, at the end of the year basically everybody already assumed he would’ve signed and the negotiations would be pretty quick.

We are in on a ton, FA trades etc.
I can see us getting Gardiner and something still

 

[4Twenty]

Benning did a great job not caving here but before I consider him as improved in negotiating I am going to wait out the UFA PERIOD

Yup. Credit where it's due, but to think this is masterful negotiating and not a player desperately wanting to stay here would be wrong.

 

[PuckMunchkin]

Completely fine with this deal. Overpay in money to get the term we want.

 

[LordBacon]

Well damn that’s a pretty solid contract there, I’ll give jb credit for this one.

 

[ErrantShepherd]

Yup. Credit where it's due, but to think this is masterful negotiating and not a player desperately wanting to stay here would be wrong.

Agreed... for a bit though, this was starting to look like a Hamhuis situation. Glad this got done for more than reasonable term and cap hit.

 

[Peter Griffin]

I think this signing may mean the end of Chris Tanev's tenure in Vancouver. I can't see Benning bringing him back in a key role and in order to upgrade they may want to shed his contract to do so. I guess it depends largely on the return but if they can get back a couple of high picks ala Justin Braun, I think they'll move him and for better or worse target Gardiner/Myers/Stralman in UFA. I think Ben Hutton will also be heavily shopped between now and the draft.

 

[TruKnyte]

As a Benning critic, I like this deal.

 

[ErrantShepherd]

I think this signing may mean the end of Chris Tanev's tenure in Vancouver. I can't see Benning bringing him back in a key role and in order to upgrade they may want to shed his contract to do so. I guess it depends largely on the return but if they can get back a couple of high picks ala Justin Braun, I think they'll move him and for better or worse target Gardiner/Myers/Stralman in UFA.

Tanev really should be traded, if you can get value for him... but still, who replaces him? Stecher? Schenn? Biega?

Stecher is the only option that's halfway viable. We need some Right D badly. If we picked up Myers, that might be interesting... but he's apparently weak defensively so could just be another Gudbranson.

 

[alternate]

Great signing.

 

[Slurpeelover27]

Completely fine with this deal. Overpay in money to get the term we want.

It is actually an underpay. He could get more money and term from someone else I am quite sure.

 

[CanaFan]

Great signing.

Exactly.

2 years -> Great signing
3 years -> Acceptable signing
4 years -> Poor signing

Just as we discussed.

 

[Canuckle1970]

Happy he'll be back. The term is a pleasant surprise. Thanks, Alex. Good work, Jim.

 

[MS]

Terrific deal and probably the single best thing Benning has done in 6 years. Great deal for the team.

Edler clearly was never going to leave because he completely caved here without even testing the market for leverage.

 

[Peter Griffin]

Terrific deal and probably the single best thing Benning has done in 6 years. Great deal for the team.

Edler clearly was never going to leave because he completely caved here without even testing the market for leverage.

It almost seems like he was afraid to even see what was out there for him, like he didn't even want to be tempted to leave Vancouver. Kudos to Benning though for not agreeing to something less desirable earlier, he played his cards perfectly in this situation.

 

[opendoor]

Great contract. If only Benning could negotiate with players he acquires as well as he can with ones that were already here; Tanev, Horvat, and now Edler all have excellent contracts.

 

[I am toxic]

Thank goodness they didn't look at the Ericksson deal and say "$6M for a player who will be 35 at the end of the contract? Never again!"