This is weird take.
a) you prefer to have a lower cap hit while this team is pretty far from competing
b) you want to pay a significant higher cap hit while also Pettersson, Hughes and Horvat will be on big ticket contracts and you also want to pay him a high salary in the 2nd half the 8 year deal when his play will be surely on decline
It would be much smarter to have him signed to an 8 year deal now which would include his 22-30 year old season. Having a ~2m higher cap hit over the next 3 years would have been a non-issue if it wasnt for the incompetent GM handing out stupid contracts to 4th liners. By the time Boeser gets to 29-30y he may already be in decline and accept a better deal or the team could just move on instead of overpaying for past achiements.
Now the team may sign him to 8y / 12m in 2022 and be stick with a ~4m higher cap hit from 2022 till 2027 and has another 3y with about 12m cap hit when he is only a shadow of his former self.
This doesnt even take into account that he could just go to the arbitrator in 2022 and get himself a 2y deal till UFA in 2024.
Incompetence at its best.
Why was it a weird take by poster pettersson? Seems like you're misconstruing his points.
Also, who is talking about an 8 year deal for Boeser except you? And if you think that Boeser may already be in decline by the time he gets to 29-30 years old, why would you sign him to an 8 year contract? You're advocating that the Canucks to sign Boeser to a contract length that you think may be too long.
Like I said before, if you go back to previous Boeser talk, many of us had reservations about Boeser. Some posters were concerned about his durability, others about how injuries can impact his game, and others think his defensive commitment is among the worst in the league. I would have made a long-term bet on Boeser but I can see the merits of playing it safe, especially if I think he may already be in decline by the time he gets to 29-30 years of age.
