No need to butt clench the Zadorov decision. A better player and opportunity will open up for us. They took a patience approach and we all nodded our heads and agreed that was the right decision. If you're now questioning that decision just give it a bit more time.
With limited assets, they really can't afford to make many more of those types of deals.
You also needed to pay them soon after acquiring them, so they eat up cap space. Lindholm would have jumped $2 mill, Zadorov like $3 mill, Hronek is up like $2.5 mill.
I am responding to
@StreetHawk's post here since it's the same topic.
To me, regardless of patience, there's plan, assessment of risk, and execution. Obviously there's hindsight and bullets dodged etc. If we outwait a player and sign the player to a bargain deal great. If we come up on our offer and sign a player already on the team near his asking price after telling the player "show me" that's fine too.
The frustration comes in circumstances where management acquires a player they like and have long term plans for but refuses to pay the asking price only to later come up to that player's asking price and you end up losing the player. The same for a player already on the team (although less so if assets are recouped).
Zadorov is a prime example. He asked for a trade out of Calgary because extension talks stalled. Calgary reportedly offered a 2 year deal for $4-4.5M AAV while Zadorov was looking for 5-6 years. The player clearly wanted to sign an extension and not test UFA with term being the biggest issue. There are differing reports but at the end the Canucks went as high as $5M AAV and I think 5 years. He ended signing for 6X$5M AAV. Good for Z as he played his way to the contract he wanted. Could the Canucks have gotten a deal done before the playoffs started? I think so.
With Miller, the Canucks ultimately went up significantly and got an extenson done (but he had a year left on his contract). With Horvat, they lowballed him while Horvat was asking for Couturier money. Regardless of whether you think the team should have met his salary demands, the Canucks ultimately offered Horvat 7X$7.5M (essentially Couturier money). Horvat ended up getting more money from the Isles. Lindholm I don't fault as he had reportedly turned down a 8x$9M offer from the Flames previously and he wasn't having a season that made him worth that.
