it's funny bc this team would be stacked 5 years ago. Crazy how fast things change

What about Skinner, 9 mill for 14 goals

He's been consistently inconsistent (1 great year followed by a bad year, then a great year followed by a bad one etc) and he was completely misused this yr, plus he still had pretty good underlying numbers

Ya, and Karlsson too.

Couture's contract will be bad at some point but right now it's quite reasonable

Him and Hayes were the two "projection" ones I was talking about in the description, still a lot of money for a good 2C tho

Karlsson was good this year

Ryan Suter is a 40 to 50 point Dman is this league, He's clearly worth the money. But his term is just too long.

He's already been regressing, and 6 years is a LONG time

Dont think Ekman Larsson deserves to be here yet, not a great contract but still in his prime

His prime is overrated tho, he's probably the third best d man on the team

I see 5 or 6 that in my opinion don’t belong on this list.

Why is Vasilevsky on this list?

This is hilarious -- I was scrolling down to write "Somebody's going to say Why is Vasilevskiy on this list at $3.5 million?" and look what I found.

Bc he's an average goalie making 9.5 mil, being buoyed up by fantastic defense

I dont think his contract is any worse than Erik Karlsson's or Jones' or Skinner's though.

He should be getting ~7.5M.

Fantastic defense? Outside of Hedman who is fantastic? McDonagh was injured most of the season. Next you're going to tell me Rinne was mediocre because of Nashville's defense?

Also why is Keith on this list? Hes still a top pairing caliber guy and only has 3 years left at a reasonable price.

I would disagree, but I did it position by position (I probably should have specified that in the description but 🤷‍♀️) so it doesn't really matter

I meant to say team defense... Big difference lol, Cernak is also very good at that, plus Cirelli is fantastic defensively, Point an Kuch are well above average, Gourde is really good, Coleman could be getting Selke talk, and just about every other player can at least hold their own defensively (plus when they're so good offensively, they spend a ton of time 150-200 feet away from Vasy...)

You think Vasilevsky's contact is worse than Martin Jones'?

Yeah

I would be adding Zuccarrello amd Pavelski to this list. Alzner too...... hard to argue it's not a bad contract when he is playing in Laval. Not sure he meets the cap hit criteria though.

I agree Keith really doesn't belong. He can still play.....

I was debating between Zucc and one of the bottom few forwards (I didn't want to hate on the wild too much 😂) Pavelski can still play, plus it's only two more years, not a good contract by any means, but I don't think it's one of the WORST, and yeah, Alzner's is definitely bad, but it wasn't quite as bad as some of the other d men, he just doesn't make as much (especially buried) as some of the other guys

Keith has fallen off quite hard recently, he's not that good any more, but I could see all argument for a guy like Alzner's being worse

How are Subban and Schneider not on this team

Not enough term on Subban and I had Schneider, but I decided he was the 4th or 5th worst goalie contract (with Jones) and wanted to limit it to 3