It's just one year.
You're letting your player bias affect your view of the situation.
He would objectively be a good add to this forward group - he brings much needed speed, size, physicality and goal scoring abilities. He scored 24 goals last year (only 2 PPG) in 77 games last year. It's also mostly a contract swap with Soucy who we can replace with Forbort/Mancini without losing any on-ice value.
Canucks need to take chances to swing for ceiling - getting Evander Kane for Soucy would be a ceiling raising move. I think he'd be a great fit on Petey's wing - would definitely elevate the line. He'd be the best goal scoring winger Petey's ever had (outside of Boeser).
He could replace 80-90% of Boeser's production at a fraction of the cost.