Edited Mar. 6, 2018 at 8:48 a.m.
I might have seen one or two of those, but not enough to be considered ubiquitous.
Most of what I see from a Montreal perspective:
Weber's contract is bad and he's declining.
Pacioretty is declining.
Petry is not a top 4D.
Ridiculous amounts of retention on Weber or Price.
Until recently: Plekanec isn't worth a 2nd and a prospect.
There is a lot more to player values than points, age, and contract. All of which people tend to base 90% of their evaluation on. Additional factors are rarely given proper consideration.
The biggest non-Montreal ones I see, are prospects being valued as equal to, or better than, quality NHLers. Some of them, maybe, eventually.
If you're trading a prospect for an NHLer, you have to mitigate the risk and factor in how long it will be until the other team can expect to get an NHL capable player out of the deal.
Some prospects are indeed untouchable, but if they are touchable (which is an assumption we are at liberty to make as armchair GMs in a fantasy scenario), then they are only worth a portion of what you estimate their ceiling to be.