I find it shocking that they would look at Boeser's performance this season, especially after the JTM trade, and decided they want to keep him at Boeser's terms. I'm not sure if it is just out of sheer desperation, or if they think the intangibles he brings to the locker room is that important right now. But lets not forget our current scoring struggles is WITH Boeser, currently he is part of the problem, not part of the solution. Forgoing the assets and cap space you get via a trade to commit long term to him seems like the last thing they should do. I'm confused.
Or, maybe people here can see that the value of Boeser comes as a complimentary sniper that requires an elite center to play with, and currently we have none and there isn't one coming. Not wanting to commit to a slow complimentary winger to a long term contract does not equate to hate, unless you are unable to evaluate players skillsets and/or the team construct. It is a very lazy argument (not to mention it being false) to just say people has an "unreasonable hate he got back when he was dealing with his immense grief."
Also it appears you are unable to understand the term opportunity cost? It is not necessarily better to sign him if we have to forego assets and cap space. We can utilize the assets and cap space better and build a better team.
Your last paragraph pretty much sums up your lack of understanding of the situation. You listed 2 outcomes, 1) its a disaster to sign him, and 2) he walks as a UFA. Clearly missing the 3rd and most desired option of trading him at the TDL for assets. Yes signing him to a bloated contract sucks, as does letting him walk as an UFA. People SHOULD be outraged by those outcomes, when there is a MUCH better 3rd option.
This has been discussed numerous times in both the Boeser thread and here, I'm shocked that a regular poster like yourself has still not grasp this very basic concept.
Too much rambling nonsense here to address but it all sounds like conjecture, clearly some have a better grasp on the situation than others.
a. Pls prove he needs an elite center.
b. He got piles of unwarranted criticisms after his family tragedy, its all there to see still, and more ridiculous now after he scored forty the next year. (Dakota gets an understandable pass because of CONTEXT, brock largely did not that year. And for anyone who hasn't lost a parent you're extremely close to, consider yourself fortunate.)
c. Okay we dont sign him and then what exactly?! Who do we sign? When? How much?
d. He's 27 and has years of good to great production, what is the evidence he's going to sign a "bloated contract" ?
e. If one really had any grasp on reality they'd recognize your 3rd option is inherent in the two i provided.
To spell it out for those who need kid gloves, if he's a "monumental mistake" to sign to an extension then why would he have some big value at the tdl.
Conversely, if " ppl should be outraged" letting him walk as a ufa, he must be pretty good player our team and others would want to sign on July one.
Both cannot be true.
The one that's clearly evident in reality is he's a very good top six winger, long time canuck so dressing rm fit, not even 28, going to be decently highly sought after if he makes it to ufa, and has years of solid, proven, indisputable production.
Again, if we let him walk whats the plan?! Fight for glass ehlers with twenty other teams? Reilly Smith? Taylor hall? Jake evans? Zucker? Donato?
What a laughable joke, the team (not roster) is almost certainly better with Brock, and we have no reason to think he won't sign for something reasonable, others did because they want to stay, hes been here the longest no reason why he doesn't want to also.
