if bad contracts could magically disappear

I was playing NHL17 earlier because im too cheap to get the newer ones but holy moly how far Juolevi has fallen. I was playing Draft Champion and his all draft card is a 95!!! not even marner had a card that high

How do they still have 6 bad contracts? Cause they were a bad team for a while and theres no real reason to pay to move them when you arnt going to be winning anyway.

I'm not a Benning fan but that's pretty dramatic.

Myers deal might hurt them down the road but he was good for them this year and wasn't an overpay, most thought he would be more expensive.

Baertschi deal looked good at the time, and one of the few trades he won. Concussion sidelined him and they got better depth. He is a useful NHLer and should probably be in the league.
Roussel is a bit overpaid but pretty far down the list of bad contracts in the league.

Sutter, Beagle and Eriksson for sure are bad deals and have been from day one. He's had other bad deals too but the recent ones have been better.

As a Canucks fan, I think Rangers win that trade

Benning definitely makes up in the draft what he lacks in signings... sure you can put some of that credit to Brackett, but benning is a large part of this.

That said, pretty much all of these contracts looked tolerable at the start. Usually I haven't liked the term all that much, but the price has initially been good. The players later on just didn't live up to it. There's some work to do to remove some of these contracts... I'm really interested to see what happens