Inside the NHL’s Biggest Contract Blunders of 2025: Shocking Surprises from Huberdeau to Provorov
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What players have already done holds no merit; this is about the future value of the deal with age effects based on player comps taken into account while accounting for expected salary growth. Contract clauses and bonus structure are important, but not considered with this assessment. Players on LTIR were not considered.
1. Jonathan Huberdeau
Contract: $10.5M x six years
Surplus Value: -$32M
Positive Value Probability: 1 percent
It’s difficult not to feel bad for Jonathan Huberdeau at this point. Immediately after he was moved, his former team went on to three straight Stanley Cup finals with back-to-back wins — all while he languishes on a Flames team with minimal upside. It’s a tough beat for the former superstar. He’s spent the last two seasons struggling to live up to a massive cap hit, one that expects a level of stardom that he no longer looks capable of reaching.
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