Think about this: Dan Hamhuis had one more point than him last year and a +29. As a Canucks fan, I don’t think I can remember a single glaring lapse from him. He’s a stellar defensive defenseman who can also be as dangerous offensively as Subban has shown himself to be, with no history of discipline issues – just a big, hard open-ice checking game, like Subban’s but chirp-free. And he’s worth $4.5m a year, and he’s proven himself over a much longer career. Subban, by that logic, should not be seeing north of $4m annually – at least not until he more fully proves himself, like every other D in the game has to. Del Zotto and Kulikov accepted that lesson. What makes P.K. so special other than his own ego?

So your trying to tell us that Subban deserves to make $1M less than Chara and $2M less than Weber?? While BOTH of those mentioned have PROVEN they deserve their money. Meanwhile Subban after a few years should get nearly as much??!?!! Any even DECENT GM would be utterly stupid to do what your suggesting. If he turns out to be all that you say he will be then he should get his medium range 2-3 year deal and if he reaches where you say he’s going to reach then he’ll get the big bucks. Not like Montreal can’t afford to pay him in 2 years! My god you want to give him Free Agent money in his second contract!