When you look at the overall picture it really is a ridiculous comedy of errors in cap management isn't it.
Louie
Sven
Spooner
Beagle
Roussel
Virtanen
Myers
Holtby
Sutter
Ferland
That right there folks is like $32.5MM bucks a year!
Say what you want about Travis Green, but you can't blame him for the above. How the heck did Jimbo get a contract extension after creating this mess?
Just out of curiousity, I calculated how much the owners paid to those players over the life of their respective contracts, and this is what I found (all numbers from capfriendly.com).
Eriksson: $6m x 6 = $36m.
Sutter: $4.375m x 5 = $21.875m.
Roussel: $3m x 4 = $12m.
Beagle: $3m x 4 = $12m.
Myers: $6m x 5 = $30m.
Ferland: $3.5m x 4 = $14m (uninsured).
Holtby: $4.3m x 2 = $8.6m.
Baertschi: $3.367m x 3 = $10.1m (roughly).
Gagner: $3.15m x 3 = $9.45m (I know Gagner didn't finish his contract here, but that's only because we took an equally bad one back in Spooner).
Total: $154.025m
For comparison, when the Aquilinis purchased the Vancouver Canucks back in 2004, Forbes valued the team at $148m.
Yikes!