[Sylvanfan]

Nothing wrong with the player, but he's about to experience a whole new level of dislike over this contract. Even if he puts up 30 goals and 60 points for 4 years, there will be people hating the last years of the contract.

I'm not crazy about this, but I'm not bent out of shape either as I think he does add something to the team. So long as he's sort of healthy you should be able to move the last 2 years if you eat 50% of the salary. Advanced stats seem to suggest that there is something to his game.

It's a bit like the Frolik signing in that he was a good player for 3 of the years, and still okay in the 4th. He was a bit pricey at the time, but still did enough in those years that it wasn't out of line. As much as we all seem to think Flat Cap = massive rollback it doesn't. When the Flames signed Frolik in 2015, that cap for that year was projected to be 71 million. Guess what take his 4.3 salary and multiply it by 81.5/71...it's 4.9 million. So really it's similar to that contract, but one extra year.