How is Burns holding up agewise? bit concerned about aquiring a 34 year old making $8M for another 5 years.

I was gonna say... maybe if sharks retained and leafs added a pick

The Leafs would have zero interest in 34 year old Brent Burns, signed for 5.5 more years at $8m cap hit. Not to mention the guy is -21 this year. And that's not just the Leafs, it's pretty much everyone in the league. Vlasic's contract isn't much better. Sharks have had a nice run, but in 5 years they'll have 39 year old Burns, 37 year old Vlasic, and 34 year old Karlsson, making a combined $26m without a hope of making the playoffs.

I expect the 7 & 8 year contracts to become less common moving forward. The league is getting younger every year, there is no reason teams should be paying a 28 year old or older UFA big money that takes them into their mid 30s or beyond. It kills a teams salary cap flexibility and inevitably leads to some non-playoff years and total rebuild. Chicago/LA are in it right now, San Jose looks like they're heading there.

Gonna be real this does not fix us. Ceci really blows, like bad. And the detroit trade gets rid of all our depth and possible young guys for three old guys that do not save us whatsoever.