Inside the NHL’s Biggest Contract Surprises of 2025: Who’s Winning and Losing Big Bucks?

Which is what makes a lot of the team’s summer work so disappointing. I’m not big on Charlie Coyle and felt the price to acquire him was utterly exorbitant if it meant also adding Miles Wood’s deal. Worse yet was the Ivan Provorov deal which immediately looks among the league’s worst.

The Blue Jackets have a lot of cap space and it may have seemed reckless to let Provorov walk, opening up a big hole in the top four. But after seeing what Fabbro was able to do for them off waivers, it could be argued it was more reckless to spend on an inefficient name-brand talent. The Provorov mistake is one the team didn’t have to make; it felt like desperate impatience.

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