Canucks Young Guns

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"If you asked 5 years ago if I would have considered this, no.

Seems one could say that about almost any deal at any time. Salaries are always going up and 5 years is a long time.

I interpreted him meaning 5 years ago, he would never give an 8 year contract to a kid with under a full season of games, and a year left in his ECL.

But, 3 offer sheets later (Holloway and Broberg and Carlson), GMs are trading offer sheet risk and breakout season risk against early signing of a kid which stagnates and underperforms risk.

Hughes 129 games vs Zeev's 80 games. Both a year left on their ELC. Not a lot of difference but I get your point, offer sheets have certainly raised the stakes and credit to RJ for recognising that. I'm hoping the low profile and expectations will lead to under-the-radar success.

Hughes skated out of mommy's womb worth 9.6% of the cap. Buium will likely be over paid for a year or 2 at 8.3%. And yeah. Offer sheets have pushed top 10 players from 12% to 18% or the cap. But, if the cap keeps rising, these deals drop to 12% when they expire. I agree on the low profile thing. We will need a few good bridge deals for later bloomers like Podkolzin where they over perform the show me contract.