Best big ticket free agent contracts?

[TheDawnOfANewTage]

It's 50/50 whether you get an ok deal out of the contract, though there are only a few slam dunks
Some good/decent examples - Looking at 7mil contracts with term, post lockout
- Pietrangelo is an example of a good contract, Vegas won the cup and Pietrangelo was a part of that
- Chara was an elite signing for the Bruins
- Maybe Kovalchuk as well if he didn't go back to Russia
- Bobrovsky is overpaid, but hasn't been bad per se
- Brian Campbell was a decent #2 dman for what he signed for
- Dougie Hamilton TBD

The rest are mediocre to downright horrible
- Karlsson won the Norris, but just one good season doesn't make up for it
- Johnny Gaudreau is looking mediocre right now, but it's early
- Tavares was good for years 1-5, but not good enough. Maybe it would have been ok if the Leafs actually had playoff success
- Ryan Suter and Parise were both bought out in the middle of the contract and were not close to worth it
- Brad Richards was bought out early in the contract
- Scott Gomez sucked and was bought out
- Chris Drury sucked and was bought out

Drury’s knee got f***ed up, if I recall correctly, not that that changes anything. What about Briere? Always liked him more, and he was a beast for Philly in playoffs. Often hurt, but I’d say that worked ok.

I have some sympathy for what Leafs were trying with Tavares, feels a bit 20/20 hindsight to say the playoff failure makes it a bad deal.. but it’s also Tavares. Maybe they shoulda known not to make that bet.

 

[EddieTheEagle]

Hyman is probably the best free agent singing in Oilers history.

Didn't realize he was so talented. Does he mostly stick to covers or does he do original tunes as well?

Jokes aside, he has been good for the Oil.

 

[KrisLetAngry]

So looking at all of this. It's really interesting a lot of UFAs to be get traded and re signed. I don't count those or if you re sign your existing UFA.

Then we have to add big ticket players. That really narrows the list down.

Pavelski
Panarin
Pietrangelo

Are my top 3 or the Top Ps


Hamilton - seems to be a big part of the Devils and him being out since November has gotta hurt. Gotta see more
Brobovsky - did Help Florida get to the finals last year. Definitely an overpayment but I feel like he's important to mention




Just to name some extra contracts

zach Hyman - great contract but would not call it high profile
Lindholm - Boston/Anaheim trade - great contract but does not meet requirements

Duds

- covid ruined the cap structure and Tavares and Karlsson unfortunatly were overpaid. Neither was bad but neither deserve to be considered a top contract signing.

 

[klefbombs shoulder]

Didn't realize he was so talented. Does he mostly stick to covers or does he do original tunes as well?

Jokes aside, he has been good for the Oil.

That is one of my most common typos haha.

 

[JeffreyLFC]

Are Rangers fan bipolar? Last year after the playoff 99.9% of rangers fans were terribly dissapointed with Panarin performance and wanted him out and now he is back in form and he is the greatest.

 

[zar]

Are Rangers fan bipolar? Last year after the playoff 99.9% of rangers fans were terribly dissapointed with Panarin performance and wanted him out and now he is back in form and he is the greatest.

NHL fans of all teams, especially so on HF Boards, usually only use the last 20 games to provide current evaluations on players.