They finally paid for those bad contracts this season. Never needed to hand out the ones to Eriksson, Sven, Ferland, Beagle, Schaller, Roussel
I can understand the Sutter one, but man the guy who missed less than 10 games before arriving through 6 NHL seasons can't stay healthy here.
Myers, I can even understand that given Tanev's injury history.
But the others above, there was no reason for their deals. Eriksson, benefit in the short term with twins was never going to offset the pain later on when the twins retired. Sven, they had time on their side via arbitration and thus never had to give him term. Ferland, injury history was glaring and if he could not be insured, that should be red flag to limit term to 2 years. Beagle, too much term for him. Better to have paid him $3.5-$3.7 for 3 years and be rid of the contract, same with Roussel. Schaller became redundant given that they signed the other 2 guys already.
Not signing Sven through a UFA year and moving Jake for a pick allows them to sign one of Tanev/TT. $2.2 mill for Sven (since he's on the taxi), and $2.55 for jake gives them $4.7 mill.