Confirmed with Link: Canucks re-sign F Sven Baertschi to 3-year deal ($3.367m AAV)

[Jay Cee]

This is pretty much market value, but we really should have played hard ball with this kind of a deal. We were under no pressure whatsoever to pay him long term based on half a season's production.

 

[THE Green Man]

So middle 6 wingers can't get 3 year contracts? Is that a new rule that I don't know about. It's 3 years, people make it sound like he just signed a 8 year contract.

If he did put up top 6 numbers. He will probably get more than 3yrs and 3.33 M a year.

So he got middle 6 numbers and he got a middle 6 production contract or maybe a little more. After all these posts, I still don't get what all the fuss is about.

When 4th liners get 4 year term, any hypothetical rule on contracts go out the window.

I'm fine with this contract, AAV is fine and term for a top6 player is fine. It gives 2 years of him trying to really establish himself as a top guy for a mediocre team. Worst case is he doesn't and it allows Dahlen to grow into his role as his replacement.

 

[Breakers]

This is pretty much market value, but we really should have played hard ball with this kind of a deal. We were under no pressure whatsoever to pay him long term based on half a season's production.

Yeah Benning doesnt know when to play hard ball.

It's like when they traded for Sutter and extended him when he still had term, like he was under the gun.

 

[Canucks1096]

6 pages on Baer. Let's just summarize

Baer put up miiddle 6 numbers with middle 6 ice time and gets a middle 6 contract ( give or take a few hundred thousand overpaid but don't forget one of those years is an ufa year. I don't see any problems at all. You can't offer 4th line money to a player that is not a 4th liner.

Even though he did play a lot of stretches with Bo and Brock. He only average about 15 minutes of ice time.

 

[ziploc]

Sven is the epitome of "just fine." No real reason to ditch him at this point, with no better goal scoring options on the table.

 

[Shareefruck]

Like him alot and find him criminally underappreciated around here, so I'm happy with the signing, although the bar for a good deal has been stupidly lowered by the other signings.