Care to elaborate?
Lucic - Too much money and term
Klefbom - Tracking to be a steal, probably by next summer, stay in average for now.
Sekera - Overpay
McDavid - Meh.
Draisaitl - Overpay
Kassian - meh
Russell - Overpay
Talbot - Assuming he keeps up last years work its a steal
The players help the team sure, but you can't look at any of the contract and be like "Gee Chia sure did well there.."
Sekera was an overpay? He was the biggest fish in that UFA class. A 34 year old Paul Martin made $4.85m over 4 years. A 35 year old Francois Beauchemin made $4.5m over 3 years. Mike Green made $6m over 3 years. $5.5m for a 28 year old at free agency was a coup. Especially for a team who wasn't expected to do much.
Russell and Kassian made $900k and $400k raises respectively on their previous contracts. There's no doubt in my mind they make more via UFA. Russell was a huge reason why our defense improved as much as it did overnight last season. He played similar minutes to our top pair and the Oilers leaned on him heavily in the playoffs.
I don't get why people complain about the Lucic deal either. He's a 29 year old 50 point power-forward. Posters used to drool about trading for him before.
And McDavid could ask for $20 million if he wanted to.
Seriously dude.