Or they say screw this cheap ass team that can not manage the cap. They would rather pay these role players their money instead of me and what I actually produce and sign an offer sheet. It does not happen very often but it is still a possibility. 4 years is just too long of term what do you not understand about that when multiple posters are intelligently explaining it to you.
For a team that is supposed to be selling us on the future and getting to watch the young players we have accumulated over the past few years it is a complete fallacy to the transactions they are making. There are 8 1 way contracts ahead of Juolevi and Hughes right now. There are an abysmal number of 18 forwards competing for 13 spots. If they came out and said at the start of the year that we are probably going to stack Utica for a year and let these guys all develop together then sure you can take it on the chin a little bit more. But instead we got the false hope that we would see a lot of the younger players play this season.
As of now:
Baertschi-Horvat-Boeser
Eriksson-Sutter-Petersson
Granlund-Gagner-Virtanen
Rousell-Beagle-Schaller
Extras: Gaunce, Leipsic, Goldobin, Gaudette, Dahlen, Motte
Sure teams can offer sheet them. But then at that point they would just match. How many offer sheets have you seen recently? Teams don't do that because they fear retaliation. 4 years isn't too long of a term, it's the max I would have gone based on the math. Again, I'm simply arguing the numbers here. 4 years was what it took.. Beagle was at 2.5/3 as of friday. Then bidding for his services went up and it landed on 3/4. You're acting like benning started at 4 years right off the bat. 4 years from now is exactly when the Canucks need to reup the young stars so it actually works out. We've been getting false hope for 3 years now.. it's your own fault if you believe it. I personally believe we won't be worth a damn till 5 years from now.
The term isn't going to kill us, it's fine, it leaves 0 wiggle room but for now, the future is still fine and not in jeopardy
I mean the only people that would get offer sheeted would be Petersson/Boeser/Hughes probably right? So I've already explained that we can resign them to 6+ years at over 7 million each if we really wanted to. So if they sign an offer sheet for more than 7 million okay.. bye Felicia.. 4 1 st round picks in return please and thank you. so it doesn't cripple the star core of the future at all.. which is all i'm trying to say.
I'm not saying these were great signings. I'm simply saying that this isn't as bad as you're all making it out to be. It doesn't hamper the future