You could probably find a way to get Okposo in the lineup, I think he'd be better than Aube-Kubel at least. Otherwise, this is a good team, though with Coots on the 3rd line you could probably afford to move Leon to the wing and get a good and cheap 4th line center (Roy, Sturm, etc.). As is, however, I say this team loses in the conference finals more often than not.

I can only find 2 bad contracts

Must be a flames fan lol

Hanifin is totally fine? He never quite took off like it looked like he could have as a 19-20 year old, but he's effective top 4 Dman, and his contract is hardly a problem. He's really come a long way in fixing his Terrible defensive game. He doesn't really do anything at a really high level, but he does everything at an average to slightly-above-average level, and he can do it while playing north of 20 minutes a night against any competition. it's not a great contract by any stretch, but at best he's like 400k overpaid, and is debatably below market price for a Dman of his level.

not Hanifin! Backlund.

Missed that one. Yeah that makes total sense. That said, It's really only bad on the term because of his age. It would be a bad contract to trade for, because there's gonna be huge diminishing returns on the player, but to this point in the contract I think he's totally performed up to his AAV. This year might be the beginning of the end though.

I look at it like I wouldn't pay Backlund more than 3.5 maybe 3.75. So for me at least, with comparable deals Backlund is pretty overpaid.