Lmfao. I mean, even if you couldn't get anyone else to take the job and wanted to give the guy a full time job as someone familiar with the culture et al, why three years?
At the worst he's a TM clone who will change nothing and get similar albeit, nonexistent results. At the best he changes things up given he has an off-season and training camp to implement his own ideas. Given you haven't even seen if the best case is real, why would you opt for multi-multi-year? Shouldn't you want some training wheels first?
What is even going on in that Org? This is approaching the early stages of Buffalo/Oilers/Sens failed managerial decision making, except the team on the ice has enough aged hall of fame talent to not let the wheels complete blow off.
I don't have anything against Hiller, maybe he's fine, but I don't see how he's going to fix anything with the way that team is constructed, and why you'd sign so many years with zero empirical evidence to base it off of.