Inside the NHL’s Biggest Contract Blunders of 2025: Shocking Surprises from Huberdeau to Provorov
4. Brady Skjei
Contract: $7M x six years
Surplus Value: -$26M
Positive Value Probability: 5 percent
Last summer, it looked like the Predators “won” free agency. One year later, it looks like a catastrophe with Brady Skjei’s deal immediately looking like the worst of the bunch.
While the Predators did overpay to nab three of the biggest free agents, it wasn’t nearly to this current degree at the time. Was Skjei a $7 million defenseman (for the next seven years) at this time last summer? Probably not, but something close to $5-6 million range would’ve made sense (his market value then was $5.7 million using current methods). Just one year later, he’s not even worth half of that.
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