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Worst contracts in the NHL

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Team: 2022-23 Custom Team
Initial Creation Date: Jul. 21, 2022
Published: Jul. 21, 2022
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Left WingCentreRight Wing
Logo of the Dallas Stars
$9,500,000$9,500,000
LW, C
NMC
UFA - 3
Logo of the Toronto Maple Leafs
$11,000,000$11,000,000
C, LW
NMC
UFA - 3
Logo of the Montreal Canadiens
$6,500,000$6,500,000
RW, LW
M-NTC, NMC
UFA - 5
Logo of the Calgary Flames
$5,250,000$5,250,000
LW, RW
M-NTC, NMC
UFA - 1
Logo of the Chicago Blackhawks
$10,500,000$10,500,000
C
NMC
UFA - 1
Logo of the Montreal Canadiens
$4,500,000$4,500,000
LW
UFA - 2
Logo of the San Jose Sharks
$4,725,000$4,725,000
RW, LW
UFA - 2
Logo of the Dallas Stars
$9,850,000$9,850,000
C, RW
NMC
UFA - 5
Logo of the Florida Panthers
$5,300,000$5,300,000
RW
M-NTC
UFA - 1
Logo of the Calgary Flames
$6,375,000$6,375,000
C, LW, RW
M-NTC
UFA - 1
Logo of the Chicago Blackhawks
$5,000,000$5,000,000
RW, C, LW
M-NTC
UFA - 2
Logo of the Arizona Coyotes
$3,200,000$3,200,000
RW
UFA - 2
Left DefenseRight DefenseGoaltender
Logo of the San Jose Sharks
$10,000,000$10,000,000
RD
NMC
UFA - 5
Logo of the Montreal Canadiens
$10,500,000$10,500,000
G
NMC
UFA - 4
Logo of the San Jose Sharks
$7,000,000$7,000,000
LD/RD
NMC
UFA - 4
Logo of the Carolina Hurricanes
$5,280,000$5,280,000
RD
M-NTC
UFA - 3
Logo of the Toronto Maple Leafs
$4,687,500$4,687,500
G
M-NTC
UFA - 2
Logo of the Toronto Maple Leafs
$5,625,000$5,625,000
LD
NTC
UFA - 2
Logo of the Chicago Blackhawks
$9,500,000$9,500,000
RD
NMC
UFA - 8
Logo of the Carolina Hurricanes
$4,050,000$4,050,000
LD
M-NTC
UFA - 1

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Jul. 21, 2022 at 7:48 p.m.
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Darnell nurse. Drew doughty. Bobrovsky.
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Jul. 21, 2022 at 8:04 p.m.
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Darnell nurse. Drew doughty. Bobrovsky.


I was considering doughty and bob but I liked both of their performances this past season. Nurse I want to give another chance to but let’s see it play out.
Jul. 21, 2022 at 8:32 p.m.
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Darnell nurse. Drew doughty. Bobrovsky.


Doughty was the best player on the Kings until he got injured. He bounced back once the team was actually competitive.
Jul. 21, 2022 at 8:34 p.m.
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I was considering doughty and bob but I liked both of their performances this past season. Nurse I want to give another chance to but let’s see it play out.


Lucic and Monahan are bad but like they'll be gone in a year. Doughty and Bob were better-even good- but they are signed deep into their thirties and have way more opportunity to do age related damage. Good players can perform well and still be on bad contracts. Jones and Karlsson also had solid years this year yet made the list
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Jul. 21, 2022 at 9:19 p.m.
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How the hell is Burns on here? Consistent 50 pt RHD on a garbage SJ and MIN teams during some of his time, not to mention now at a reduced hit, and all without sacrificing any other aspects of his game? I get his age isn’t ideal, but he is still easily worth 8mil for what he brings. His offensive and defensive game, and he munches minutes. I mean, last year alone he was 3rd in the league for TOI among defensemen, only behind Chabot and I don’t remember the other dman ahead of Burns. He has aged like a fine wine, and now that he is playing for a true contender, personally, I think he revived his play to the level he had in 2016-17 season. Not everyone will agree with this, but I digress.
Jul. 21, 2022 at 9:36 p.m.
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How the hell is Burns on here? Consistent 50 pt RHD on a garbage SJ and MIN teams during some of his time, not to mention now at a reduced hit, and all without sacrificing any other aspects of his game? I get his age isn’t ideal, but he is still easily worth 8mil for what he brings. His offensive and defensive game, and he munches minutes. I mean, last year alone he was 3rd in the league for TOI among defensemen, only behind Chabot and I don’t remember the other dman ahead of Burns. He has aged like a fine wine, and now that he is playing for a true contender, personally, I think he revived his play to the level he had in 2016-17 season. Not everyone will agree with this, but I digress.


He is paid 8 mil for the next 3 years. Sure it’s not all by one team but being paid 8 mil till you’re 40 is kinda not good
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Jul. 21, 2022 at 9:44 p.m.
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really doing a disservice to tavares here
Jul. 21, 2022 at 11:08 p.m.
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really doing a disservice to tavares here


He’s roughly 4 million overpayed :/
Jul. 21, 2022 at 11:13 p.m.
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He’s roughly 4 million overpayed :/


on what metric lmao
Jul. 21, 2022 at 11:18 p.m.
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on what metric lmao


Tavares is the 45th highest point producing forward in the league. If he was being paid what the 45th highest paid forward in the league is currently getting he would be getting 7.25m. On a purely linear metric, where the top point producing forward should paid the most out of forwards and the 45th should be paid the 45th. If you want to get into advanced stats like WAR and xWAR then I’m all ears but it doesn’t improve Tavares’ case for being grossly overpaid.
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Jul. 21, 2022 at 11:46 p.m.
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Tavares is the 45th highest point producing forward in the league. If he was being paid what the 45th highest paid forward in the league is currently getting he would be getting 7.25m. On a purely linear metric, where the top point producing forward should paid the most out of forwards and the 45th should be paid the 45th. If you want to get into advanced stats like WAR and xWAR then I’m all ears but it doesn’t improve Tavares’ case for being grossly overpaid.


under this logic you'd need to put guys like kopitar and wheeler on here as well since they were under tavares in point producing

if fact if we're looking at point production and nothing else, here's a list of players who costed more per point than tavares: tatar, palmeri, lee, w karlsson, josh anderson, pacioretty, kotkaniemi, oshie, tanev, schwartz, mantha, couturier, stone, zucker

one would assume that none of these contracts were signed in a vaccum, that the status of the player on signing varies and often for players signing as free agents, they are paid with a significant focus on past performance rather than expected production. a good majority of players you've listed are in this category since their production and over play as dramatically fallen off since they've signed their respective contracts, but tavares in a bad year was almost point per game. he's clearly a cut above the rest of these guys.

is tavares overpaid? sure, there's an argument there. is his contract among the twenty worst in league? not a chance.
Jul. 22, 2022 at 12:09 a.m.
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under this logic you'd need to put guys like kopitar and wheeler on here as well since they were under tavares in point producing

if fact if we're looking at point production and nothing else, here's a list of players who costed more per point than tavares: tatar, palmeri, lee, w karlsson, josh anderson, pacioretty, kotkaniemi, oshie, tanev, schwartz, mantha, couturier, stone, zucker

one would assume that none of these contracts were signed in a vaccum, that the status of the player on signing varies and often for players signing as free agents, they are paid with a significant focus on past performance rather than expected production. a good majority of players you've listed are in this category since their production and over play as dramatically fallen off since they've signed their respective contracts, but tavares in a bad year was almost point per game. he's clearly a cut above the rest of these guys.

is tavares overpaid? sure, there's an argument there. is his contract among the twenty worst in league? not a chance.


My rebuttal to that is the bigger they are, the harder they fall. Say Tavares was the highest paid player and produced like the 50th best player based solely on PPG. That difference is over 5m. The difference between the 50th highest paid player and 100th is 1.5m. From a standpoint of being overpaid, Tavares is one of the largest wastes of money in the league with him being overpaid 3.75m. Every single player you mentioned before Tavares is objectively not as good of a hockey player and are on objectively overpaid contracts. None of them are costing their team damn near 4 million to keep them around. I am also accounting for the fact that Tavares has 3 more years of that which costs the team assuming he continues to play like that 11 million. To compare I’ll use kotkaniemi. KK will continue to improve as he will be playing in an elevated role with another year of development so I don’t see his cap hit to be as bad as it is on paper. On paper though, KK is the 135th highest paid forward and the 198th most effective forward. The 198th highest paid forward makes 2m less however. Now on paper it’s a 16 million dollar mishap but the fact that they pay it over the course of a much longer period of time where he will still be improving makes it much better that it actually seems. Every forward that gets a raise over 4.82m continues to make it a better deal. Not many forwards are signed over 11m, 3 to be exact. I don’t see 42 players signing over 11 million dollar deals in the next 3 years. I do however see 63 forwards signing over 4.82 million dollar deals over the next 8 years. That’s 8 forwards getting a pay raise over 4.82 per offseason, and that is assuming KK plays like he did in his fourth line role. It all comes down to the bigger they are, the harder they fall. Even tho Tavares slips from 4 to 45, he loses his team 3.75m a year despite the fact he is near PPG. That’s why I view his contract as so bad, because it will cost the leafs millions and they are already struggling to build a team around their core 4.
Jul. 22, 2022 at 1:41 a.m.
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I was considering doughty and bob but I liked both of their performances this past season. Nurse I want to give another chance to but let’s see it play out.


Give Nurse another chance but jones had a really good season. He's barely overpaid. Maybe by a mil aav
Jul. 22, 2022 at 1:43 a.m.
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Doughty was the best player on the Kings until he got injured. He bounced back once the team was actually competitive.


Sure. Still not worth anywhere close to 11 mil
Jul. 22, 2022 at 1:47 a.m.
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Had to take a look at the RWs around the league because I thought there must to be someone on a bigger, worse contract than Kassian. It's actually surprising how well the RWs around the league perform in comparison to their contracts. Very few guys you could really say are overpaid at all.
Jul. 22, 2022 at 12:57 p.m.
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Sure. Still not worth anywhere close to 11 mil


Hey man, Toews put up 12 goals last season, but he helped the hawks win 3 cups. Doughty won 2, and has similar underlying numbers to Seth Jones, if he's overpaid it's not at the level of worst contract in the league any longer.
Jul. 22, 2022 at 5:29 p.m.
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Hey man, Toews put up 12 goals last season, but he helped the hawks win 3 cups. Doughty won 2, and has similar underlying numbers to Seth Jones, if he's overpaid it's not at the level of worst contract in the league any longer.


Comparing doughty to other overpaid players just probes my point.
 
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