Fair Points. Signing Eddie anything more then a year at a time would be risky. His cap hit in theory should drop in half. If he wants to be a Canuck for life there should be no issues taking it a year at a time. A Edler with less minutes is still a very effective Edler.
My one pet peeve is the penalties as well, he does tend to take too many and the bad ones he take are usually due to foot speed