Maaco - I wrote a response to this post and then decided to delete it. Let's just stay on the high road and maybe you can wish him well. I started another post about Beagle and what I thought he brought to the team.
There isn't anything that takes us to the low-road by commenting on his contract. You will be hard pressed to find someone on this board who doesn't respect/appreciate everything Jay Beagle did for this franchise. We all loved him, we all commented on how Trotz made the montra of this team work like Jay Beagle works.
But in no world can our cap constrained team afford $3 mill per year for him. Good on Beagle for leveraging the market, and the demand for quality depth players to let the bidding war bump his contract up. But the moment he became worth more than $2 mill we were completely out of the running. We have so much cap tied to other players, that it just can't make sense to pay Beagle that much for us.
Ultimately that is a tough contract, as much as I love Beagle I feel like some of that for the Canucks is just so they can begin a culture change surrounding their newer younger core. It's a smart move on that front, for a team that has the cap to be able to afford to do that. But contenders can't pay fourth liners that kind of salary no matter how talented/hard working/good they are. It's a bummer since the intangibles Beagle brought absolutely need to be replaced for him.
Obviously we all wish him best of luck in Vancouver.
