ChilliBilly
Registered User
The comment from SKA's president suggests he feels fine and the 3-day timeline is out of caution. This is about as positive of an early report that you can get.
I do hope that he does not play for the Canucks this year. We can't be wasting ELC years on a team in cap hell.
If things go well, his "burning" a year of ELC is really not that big a deal. Keep him happy if you can, and if that costs us a year of his ELC, its only going to make a difference of about $2.5 M for ONE year. (based on that if he is playing "well", he gets a bridge deal of about $3.5 x 3 or 4 years.) One year is not worth suddenly becoming financially intelligent. And that year won't be until at least 2023, after our most burdensome contracts are gone.