How do you figure?The_Pauser wrote:If the Canucks lock up the Sedins long-term for a total of $14M it will set the organization back a long, long time. Not only will we be saddled with those albatross contracts, but we won't be able to really begin improving until well after they've retired. I'd much rather let them walk and use that cap space to improve the organization as a whole. We may not be able to sign 2 impact players, but we should be able to sign 3 very good players.
Look at some of the recent contracts given out.
Horton signed for $5.3 and 7 years.
Clarkson signed for $5.25 and 7 years.
Wheeler resigned for $5.6M.
Pavelski resigned for $6M.
Kessel resigned for $8M.
Not only would the Canucks find it nearly impossible to replace the Sedins point production through Free Agency, but they'd have to overpay for any free agents they'd attract here, with no guarantee of any coming.
For $15.2 you could have Alfredsson ($5.5), Weiss ($4.9 & 5 years), and Clowe ($4.8 & 5 years) and their COMBINED 49 Points last year. Or have the Sedins and a combined 85 points. Kind of a no-brainer.
If the Sedins walk, we're rebuilding. I disagree that $7M per is too much for them. $7M per puts them in Spezza, Thornton, Semin, Vanek range. $7.5 puts them in Heatley, Gaborik, Nash territory. IMO the Sedins are comparable to all those players (and better than most).
Given their production, durability, consistency and importance to the franchise, I don't see that as an overpayment at all.