Ryan Johansen has signed a new contract with the Nashville Predators.

Big money but for 8 years. Another great deal for the Preds. One team that is finally doing the salary cap right.

Ryan Johansen: prefers to pass more than you might expect but otherwise has mostly top-line results. pic.twitter.com/jYURzFBop8

— Micah Blake McCurdy (@IneffectiveMath) July 28, 2017

Tied for 14th in the league
Free of NMC

Pretty solid.

Minnesota just punched themselves in the nether regions . Mikael Granlund just got a little more expensive

You can thank McJesus for driving up most everyone else's prices. Good for Nashville to have half their team on bargain contracts.

No, not a great signing ... he's a great player but 8 MILLION DOLLARS? wow ...

He's worth it, as the graph supports

i have no idea how to read those stats ... and 8 million dollars is what you give a guy like Pastrnak.

Here's how : http://hockeyviz.com/howto/skaterCard

He's their bonafide 1C, and Nashville has the cap space to pay him.

Here's other players around that price point:

Voracek
Parise
Kessel
Nash
Spezza
O'Rielly

RJ is definitely on the level of most of these guys (I'd take him over Spezza, ROR, Pairse, and Nash)

yeah, he's a 1C but i thought he'd get more like 6.6M, not 8M.

i'm not gonna read this whole thing, and i'm sure these stats show he's great, but EIGHT MILLION DOLLARS.

Number one centermen ain't cheap. This is still a solid signing for Nashville

It literally explains how to read the chart. Basically he is putting up great top line stats while passing more than perceived

Did you read the comparable guys I listed at $8 million?

Most comparable contracts: https://www.capfriendly.com/comparables/ryan-johansen-8058

Kuznetsov, Evgeny
Giroux, Claude
Tarasenko, Vladimir
Monahan, Sean
MacKinnon, Nathan

still though ... 8M ... that's what you give a guy like OEL.

You'd take him over those guys only because most of them are past their prime... Johansen will be 33 by the time this contract is over, and never once has he score point-per-game pace at the NHL level. Spezza at 25 was scoring at about a 100 point pace and had been for three consecutive seasons. Nash was a 40 goal scorer at 25.

Most of the guys on your list are overpaid, which just proves the point that Johansen is also overpaid.

Every player on that list signed a contract for nearly 12% of the current salary cap. Johansen is 10.6% of the cap hit for EIGHT YEARS. Spezza's current was for a larger percent and its only for 4 years. His previous contract from '08 was nearly 14% of the cap at the time and was only for 7 years.

Yes its an 8M cap hit, but you have to realize that contracts signed 5 years ago are completely different when put into context. Don't compare all of those 7-9M contracts that were singed years ago to the ones being singed today. If you want to do that then at 13% of today's salary cap like those other guys signed, Johansen would have gotten 9.5-10M per year. This is a decent signing today and a great signing in 2-3 years.

He is absolutely a bonafide #1C and likely will be until the end of his contract.

I'm more shocked that this contract didn't come with any kind of no-trade or no-movement clause. I'm guessing he sacrificed that for more cash.

It's all about when the contract was signed. The cap has gone up by $25 million in the last 10 years alone, but the number of players per team is remaining the same. That means players are going to be getting larger and larger contracts.

Or maybe he isn't

Or, after this playoff, maybe he is.