Overpayments

marner mcavoy fiala and hischier are a joke right???

pretty sure the athletic just ranked mcavoy's contract the 3rd best in the league and that compared to league average contract his open market value is actually 16.5 mill.

Honestly a pretty good list outside of McAvoy

a few other iffy ones
marner at most is 1 mill overpaid most the top wingers gaudreau/tkachuck/kuch/rantanen/ kaprizov are getting 9-9.5 mill and huberdeau is at 10.5, pasta probably gets 9.5 this offseason so that's about the range you pay for a top 10 winger

as for fiala maybe 800k at most

hischier though that is dumb he is well worth 7.25 mill especially with centers you usually pay a premium

No Zaitsev?

He's making 4.5 and worth exactly $0.00.

Other than what you mentioned, Price shouldn't be there unless Vesi is. Nemeth sucks but he's getting 2.5m lol, most guys getting that are bottom pairing guys at best. Panarin got ufa premium ofc, but he's still a top winger in the League, he's getting 10m+ now from any team, maybe 9.5m in low tax states since they seem to like 9m or 9.5m for their highest paid players. 3.6m for Goodrow beats 5m for a similar. Skjei and Trouba’s contracts are fine, same with Couture even if it will age poorly like Benn's did. Doughty and Karlsson got insane money even though they were great and could still be great if they were healthier perhaps but still was a bad idea to pay them that much. I'm guessing Makar will get a monster deal like them that will age poorly if he slows fast.