That is quite the Pesce contract

It'll age horribly but he's an elite RD at this point and don't all FA contracts age poorly?

They already hitched their cart to JT Miller's mid to late 30s, so what's another?

Jim Benning?

I think that going into it with that attitude is the wrong way to go about it, if you are thinking “oh he’s going to be good for 3 years, serviceable for 5 and a anchor for the last 2” you are setting yourself up for failure. There were no contracts with this last FA period that you look and say “this is going to be horrible at the end”

EP40s next contract starts with a 12

I think one also has to wonder if there is a Carolina Effect with their defensemen, because like Burns and Skjei were both trending as like "fine if unremarkable" defensemen at the time they joined the Canes and now both are putting up like easy clear cut top of the lineup numbers on both sides of the puck. Wouldn't be a shock if that dips off as soon as they leave (though, in fairness, it didn't with Hamilton, although I would have said he was a top pair defenseman when he went to the Canes)

Thats a very good point, their system focuses on the blue line as opposed to the forward core and the Canucks are definitely more of a forward based team. That might change with the coaching change but I would be surprised