Inside the NHL’s Most Shockingly Mismanaged Contracts That Defy Salary Cap Logic
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The temptation is to dive right into the league’s worst deals, but I know from last time that won’t work. The key up front is going to be finding bad contracts that are also reasonably cheap, which of course is ridiculous but here we are. So rather than starting with my top line, I’m going to do this backwards and chip away at the depth first.
So how’s this for a fourth line: Tampa’s Yanni Gourde between Utah’s Brandon Tanev and Montreal’s Jake Evans. The good news is this line only costs us about $7.7 million: $2.33 million for Gourde, $2.5 million for Tanev and $2.85 million for Evans. The bad news is these three combined for just 28 goals last year — and the worse news is we’re on the hook to this bunch for 13 total years, six of them to Gourde. Oh, and two of those guys are already 33.
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