Free Agency History

[deadhead]

Thought I'd look at major FAs the last couple years - what they got and how they performed:
[age of 1st year of new contract]

2016:
Steven Stamkos C (26) - 8yr/$72M, ES 13, 52, 56, GAR 4.4, 18.0, 19.4
Kyle Okposo RW (27) - 7yr/$42M, ES 22, 23, 18, GAR 6.6, 0.6, 1.1
Milan Lucic RW (28) - 7yr/$42M, ES 25, 27, 16, GAR 2.5, -2.0, -2.2
David Backus C (32) - 5yr/$30M, ES 31, 26, 13, GAR 7.4, 0.2, 5.2
Andrew Ladd LW (31) - 7yr/$39M, ES 25, 26, 10, GAR -5.0, 6.0, -1.4
Frans Nielsen C (32) - 6yr/$32M, ES 24, 23, 26, GAR 1.2, 5.1, 3.6
Mikkel Boedker RW (27) - 4yr/$16M, ES 24, 29, 28, GAR 3.8, 4.5, 0.6
Loui Eriksson LW (31) - 6yr/$36M, ES 16, 18, 26, GAR 1.5, 4.7, -4.0
Troy Brouwer RW (31) - 4yr/$18M, ES 12, 16, 20, GAR -1.8, -1.4, 3.3
Darren Helm C (29) - 5yr/$19M, ES 12, 27, 13, GAR 3.2, -2.3, -4.5

Keith Yandle D (30) - 7yr/$44M, GAR 0.1, 2.3, 5.0
Alex Goligoski D (31) - 5yr/$27M, GAR 1.9, -4.8, 6.4
Jason Demers D (28) - 5yr/$23M, GAR 1.7, 5.3, 0.3

2017:
Alex Radulov RW (31) - 5yr/$31M, ES 49, 49, GAR 5.9, 17.9
Martin Hanzal C (30) - 4yr/$18M, only 38g in 2017-18, 7 games, 2018-19
Patrick Marleau C (38) - 3yr/$19M, ES 38, 27, GAR 4.2, 1.2
Justin Williams RW (36) - 2yr/$9M, ES 39, 39, GAR 3.5, 12.5
Nick Bonino C (29) - 4yr/$16M, ES 25, 31, GAR 2.3, 9.2

Shattenkirk D (28) - 4yr/$26.6M, GAR -2.7, -0.9
Karl Alzner D (29) - 5yr/$23M, GAR -0.9, 0.7 (only played 9 games in 2018-19
Brendan Smith D (28) - 4yr/$17M, -0.7, -3.6
Dmitri Kulikov D (27) - 3yr/$13M, GAR 2.6, -3.4

2018:
John Tavares C (28) - 7yr/$77M, ES 69, GAR 18.1
JVR LW (29) - 5yr/$35M, ES 35, GAR 0.9
Paul Stastny C (33) - 3yr/$20M, ES 36, GAR 2.9
James Neal RW (31) - 5yr/$29M, ES 13, GAR -3.7
David Perron C (30) - 4yr/$16M, ES 32, GAR 4.4
Tyler Bozak C (31) - 3yr/$15M, ES 30, GAR 4.5
Leo Komarov C (32) - 4yr/$12M, ES 26, GAR 2.1
Jay Beagle C (33) - 4yr/$12M, ES 12, GAR 1.1
Antoine Roussel LW (29) - 4yr/$12M, ES 31, GAR 5.9

Mike Green D (33) - 2yr/$11M, GAR 0.1
Calvin De Haan (27) - 4yr/$17M, GAR -0.3
Ian Cole (29) - 3yr/$13M, GAR -6.0
Jack Johnson (31) - 5yr/$16M, GAR -4.0
John Moore D (28) - 5yr/$14M, GAR -2.5

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[Beef Invictus]

This is a good idea and if I ever stop working while exhausted I'll see if I can't take it back to the start of the cap era, though I doubt GAR will be available unfortunately.

 

[deadhead]

Pro hockey rumors does a top 50 list each year, and at the bottom give the actual contract, with links to the player on HR for scoring stats, then I went to Evolving-Hockey for the GAR numbers.

 

[prototypical4thliner]

More enhanced and educated nerds, what all is being integrated into the GAR equation? It seems like, if done right, the sabremetric equation for hockey.

Also, I’d probably (for our interests) only look at those players moving teams. There has to be a variability just due to moving teams and integration into a new system.

 

[JojoTheWhale]

More enhanced and educated nerds, what all is being integrated into the GAR equation? It seems like, if done right, the sabremetric equation for hockey.

That's the goal. They have an extensive 3 part series on evolving-hockey.com under the "More" section that delves into the details of the process.

The TLDR image: