Inside the NHL’s Most Shockingly Mismanaged Contracts That Defy Salary Cap Logic
For our bottom pair, there are still plenty of bad deals out there to choose from. But with some of the league’s worst contracts going to forwards, I feel like we want to save our cap space as much as possible. Can you go cheap on bad contracts? In theory, no, but here we are. Give me Carolina’s Sean Walker and his four more years at $3.6 million, and the Islanders’ Scott Mayfield, who has them on the hook for $3.5 million for another five years.
Cap space spent so far: We just added six defensemen at a cap cost of $31.6 million, an average just north of $5.25 million each. With our two goalies, that brings our team total to $42.9 million, leaving $52.6 million to spend on 12 forwards. That’s… not a lot, actually. We’re going to face a cap crunch up front. What a completely unforeseeable problem.
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