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

With all that being said, here’s how every team measures up.

The goal here is to grade contracts empirically with the same context being applied to each player across the league: how much value does each player bring to the table per year and over the life of the contract. The way that’s measured comes from comparing a player’s Net Rating and the expected salary that comes with it to a player’s current contract.

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.

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