Post 2005/2006: Top 5 worst contracts given

[Djp]

Who got bought out? Compliance or on the books

 

[fasterthanlight]

Vlasic and Clarkson were/are brutal

 

[TheDawnOfANewTage]

Vlasic and Clarkson were/are brutal

Vlasic is an odd one, as he was supposedly so underrated for so long- then he gets a big contract and immediately shits the bed. It’s like he sucked upon signature, obviously regression with age is a thing but idk how SJ foresees his immediate uselessness.

 

[Cas]

Vlasic is an odd one, as he was supposedly so underrated for so long- then he gets a big contract and immediately shits the bed. It’s like he sucked upon signature, obviously regression with age is a thing but idk how SJ foresees his immediate uselessness.

He helps keep us above the cap floor and helps the tank.

Frankly I hope he sits in the press box all next year. He's just so bad and has no future.

 

[Brookbank]

Distinct lack of Loui Eriksson in this thread.

Not even close. It was 6x6

 

[fasterthanlight]

Vlasic is an odd one, as he was supposedly so underrated for so long- then he gets a big contract and immediately shits the bed. It’s like he sucked upon signature, obviously regression with age is a thing but idk how SJ foresees his immediate uselessness.

Totally. Insane regression --- almost instant upon the 8 year deal. I'd like to think it was an injury instead of a mindset thing

 

[Brookbank]

Scott Gomez.

Loui Eriksson

There's sure a lot of way off the mark answers in this thread.

 

[Spargon]

Redden 2008. 6 years and $39 million.

Didn't he also spend at least 2 years of that in the AHL as well?

 

[ref19]

Huberdeau, Dougie, Skinner, Timo

 

[WaitingForThatCab]

15 months ago, Bobrovsky would have been on this list for everyone. Might be there again this time next year, tbh.

 

[Xirik]

Huberdeau, Dougie, Skinner, Timo

what?

 

[Kryten]

Kovalchuk

 

[GarlicbreadTB]

The Abdelkader contract was painful.

 

[blueandgoldguy]

Messier's 3 years with the Canucks turned out to be an awful contract.

 

[Bouboumaster]

I think Bryzgalov, Dipietro, Gomez and Clarkson are up there IMO

Wade Redden was named, it was not good lol, as far as contract goes

Skinner has some up and down years, I'm not sure if he's top 5 worse

 

[JAK]

Tavares's contract ruined the Leafs' window. How has it not been mentioned

 

[Cas]

Totally. Insane regression --- almost instant upon the 8 year deal. I'd like to think it was an injury instead of a mindset thing

It's certainly physical decline - Vlasic is just getting slower and slower in a league that is faster and faster. He also can't pivot worth a damn. As a consequence, he's far too immobile to be in position to play acceptable defense, and he provides nothing else to make up for it (he has zero offensive talent, isn't physical, etc). I don't know if injury caused that, but he's just totally immobile and has been for a few years.

It'd be like forcing a player to wear 20-pound weights on his feet and a visor that delayed everything they would see by half a second.

 

[syz]

Before signing anybody to a contract on July 1st every GM should have somebody on staff remind them that Lucic, Backes, Eriksson, and Ladd were all signed at the same time.

 

[Bizz]

nobody remembers Jeff Finger?

 

[KeydGV21]

Came in here to say DiPietro. The injuries did him in. But he was unhealthy before the contract, so giving it to him was always bonkers.

He had yet to have a good season at the time he was signed to the contract and he was coming off a season that even adjusting for goalies with less than 10 games, he barely cracked the top 30 in save percentage…

The Islanders made a 15 year commitment on the basis of nothing more than wishes and dreams

 

[HanSolo]

Ilya Bryzgalov.

Started in 2011-2012. 9 years, $51M, $5.66M AAV.

Bought out after 2 seasons lol.

He is still being paid until 26-27 @ $1.64m/yr.

Pretty sweet deal for Mr. Universe.

 

[HanSolo]

I don't know that he cracks top 5 for the cap era necessarily but it seems crazy to me that Seth Jones at 9.5x8 hasn't been mentioned yet.

 

[GQS]

How about Price and Ekman-Larsson?

Price with that huge contract being paid for what he did for the Habs in the past rather than what he could continue to do for them in the future and so far since getting that contract he's played one full season and two shortened pandemic ones and that's it.

Ekman-Larsson so bad that he needed to be bought out.

 

[Shark Finn]

Off the top of my head,
DiPietro
Bryzgalov
Clarkson
Redden
Vlasic

HM to the Kovalchuk contract debacle and Jeff Finger lol

 

[BSHH]

The Abdelkader contract was painful.

At least Adbelkader contributed in some way to the Red Wings. But Stephen Weiss absolutely did not.

Gruß,
BSHH