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Originally Posted by AzNightmare
Well his previous contract is irrelevant now, so why would anyone talk about it now?
While he won't actually play for 12 years, no one knows exactly how long Lu would play for.
Either way, it's a career long contract, and it's longer than what most fans want now.
Luongo was slightly overrated and Schenider was underrated at the time.
Otherwise, no one would be complaining about the length of his contract now.
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it's relevant because his lower cap hit means the canucks have more room to spend elsewhere (huge trickle down effect). if he were getting $6.75mil for 12yrs, people would be complaining again. but then, people complained because he was getting paid $10mil for a single season despite the cap hit of $5.33mil
so there are whiners either way.
Players and organizations don't sign contracts to please the fans. We have absolutely nothing to do with it in the slightest degree. I like the fact that Lu wants to be here and wants to spend his career playing here.