Inside the NHL’s Biggest Contract Blunders of 2025: Shocking Surprises from Huberdeau to Provorov
Columbus had a lot of cap space and not a lot of options to replace Provorov. From that perspective, it’s understandable why the Blue Jackets did what they felt like they had to do — but that still doesn’t make this deal any easier to swallow.
3. Chandler Stephenson
Contract: $6.3M x six years
Surplus Value: -$29M
Positive Value Probability: 0.2 percent
One year removed from Seattle’s big bet on Chandler Stephenson, it is still mystifying that the Kraken ever gave a 30-year-old declining center $6.25 million per year for the next seven years. One year into the deal, nothing has changed on that front. It was a poor decision at the time and that’s played out on the ice.
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