Most bang for buck?

[GnrlDisarray]

Excluding rookie contracts who do you think has delivered the most value for money to their team?

Personally I think at least Teuvo Teräväinen at 2,86 is at least worthy of a mention. Eric Staal at 3,5 has also more than delivered.

Who are your picks?

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[Beautvillier]

tavares at 5 mil

 

[Salem13]

LOL, right now Khudobin is looking like a great bargain compared to Rask on the Bruins

 

[GnrlDisarray]

tavares at 5 mil

Honestly it didn't even occur to me that Tavares could be so cheap. Kucherov under 5mil is another obvious pick.

 

[me2]

Marchessault $750k for 21 points in 19 games.

 

[Speyer]

I think Josi makes less than 5 millions.

 

[GnrlDisarray]

Marchessault $750k for 21 points in 19 games.

Wow. Hard to top that value.

 

[severian]

Brian Gibbons

 

[Spirit of 67]

Leafs have Kadri and Brown on ridiculously team friendly contracts.

JT is a steal. As if Kuch. (pointed out above)

Josi is on a steal of a deal as well but check out Ekholm. Even cheaper and for 2 extra years.

 

[Lapa]

Eric Staal. 65 pt last season, on pace for 75 pts this season. 3,5m contract.

 

[LeHab]

Over the pas few years? Karlsson at 6.5m is a great deal.

 

[Lunatik]

For the Flames right now, Micheal Ferland. 1.75 million and has 10 goals/14 points through 22 games. I'm not expecting him to continue at that pace but even if he put up 20-25 goals it'd be a great season for him.

 

[Blender]

According to capfriendly, these are the top 10:

#	PLAYER	POS	AGE	TEAM	TYPE	EXPIRY	CAP HIT	GP	G	A	P	$/G	$/A	$/P
3	Jonathan Marchessault	C	26		Standard	UFA	$750,000	19	8	13	21	$93,750	$57,692	$35,714
8	Brian Gibbons	C	29		Standard	UFA	$650,000	23	11	4	15	$59,091	$162,500	$43,333
12	William Karlsson	C	24		Standard	RFA	$1,000,000	22	13	9	22	$76,923	$111,111	$45,455
15	Bryan Rust	RW, LW	25		Standard	RFA	$640,000	25	3	10	13	$213,333	$64,000	$49,231
27	Derek Grant	C	27		Standard	UFA	$650,000	23	5	6	11	$130,000	$108,333	$59,091
32	Mattias Janmark	C	24		Standard	RFA	$700,000	23	4	7	11	$175,000	$100,000	$63,636
35	Yanni Gourde	C, LW	25		Standard	UFA	$1,000,000	23	6	9	15	$166,667	$111,111	$66,667
37	Chris Wagner	C	26		Standard	UFA	$637,500	23	2	7	9	$318,750	$91,071	$70,833
40	Martin Frk	RW	24		Standard	RFA	$650,000	18	6	3	9	$108,333	$216,667	$72,222
40	Charles Hudon	LW	23		Standard	RFA	$650,000	23	2	7	9	$325,000	$92,857	$72,222

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[WhiskeyYerTheDevils]

For the Flames right now, Micheal Ferland. 1.75 million and has 10 goals/14 points through 22 games. I'm not expecting him to continue at that pace but even if he put up 20-25 goals it'd be a great season for him.

That's a good one. That whole line is a pretty good bang for it's buck. Total cap hit of like 14.8M for 35g 74p in 23 games (68 total man games)? That's 6 points above a point per game pace for an average of $4.9M per player.

Not sure there are many trios who can get you that sort of production at that price (ignoring rookie contracts of course). Heck, you'd need McDavid to carry two $1.2M wingers to that sort of production.

I do wonder why you think Ferland will slow down to a 20-25 goal pace? He could have easily had 2-3 more goals last night. Since joining the top line, he's 34th in the league in goals with 17g 25p in 43 games while averaging only 14:24. Almost all of that production has come at ES. That's a 32 goal pace with minimal ice time and minimal PP opportunities.

His shooting percentage of 19% over that period seems high, but if he stays with Johnny Gaudreau I think 14-18% is totally reasonable for a guy with his release. Any regression in shooting percentage should be offset by continued ice time increases. He's just now starting to get true top 6 minutes.

Here are his averages split by ice time this season:

>13:50 TOI:
17gp 9g 13p 45 shots
0.53 GPG 0.75 PPG 2.65 SOG 15:12 TOI
< 13:50 TOI:
5gp 1g 1p 5 shots.
0.20 GPG 0.20 PPG 1.00 SOG 11:25 TOI

Those 5 games under 13 minutes came in consecutive games after he was pushed off the top line. So he's really put up 16g 24p in 38gp while actually playing on the top line - a 35g 52p pace. Since that 5 game demotion, he's got 8g 12p in 14gp.

 

[Tripod]

Couturier at 4.33 million is looking quite nice this year.

Simmonds at 3.975 million is the usual Flyers answer.

 

[Mickey Marner]

Marchessault $750k for 21 points in 19 games.

Came here to say Marchessault. He's going to be laughing come July.