tiburon12
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- Jul 18, 2009
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There are about 65 players in the league singed to 7/8 year contracts that were signed at age 27 or older. Of those, about half are a contract that is not, or isn't on pace to be, a boat anchor for the team and, as a result, the player.
As a Sharks fan, our team is the prime example of mistakes made giving out these contracts. Each of Couture, Burns, Vlasic, Karlsson, Kane, and Hertl's contracts fit this category and came back to bite the Sharks, all but one of which they are still eating the consequences of some 8 years later. Remember, Karlsson won the Norris and had no value because of his contract.
Just this off season, we've seen Skinner and Atkinson bought out, Trouba (likely) on the move, and Goodrow discarded (6 years contract, but still) just because of contracts, and that's not even beginning to talk about players on unmovable deals like Tavares, Huberdeau, Doughty, Nurse and so on.
And on top of these deals being bad for teams, they are really limiting to players outside of the immense money. I bet there are tons of players who would like a fresh start or chance in a different org that can't because of a bad contract. All in all, these contracts, more often than not, are limiting and restricting.
So, I know teams operate in a "worry about that later" mentality, but the writing is on the wall: these contracts rarely work out. Will we see an end to this and see more people follow Matthews and take shorter deals?
Here are the contracts. I've bolded the ones I feel are "bad" or represent a mistake that a team tried to get out of.
1. Nathan MacKinnon
2. Artemi Panarin
3. William Nylander
4. Erik Karlsson
5. David Pastrnak
6. John Tavares
7. Drew Doughty
8. Carey Price
9. Jonathan Huberdeau
10. Sergei Bobrovsky
11. Tyler Seguin
12. Johnny Gaudreau
13. Jamie Benn
14. Mark Stone
15. Seth Jones
16. Darnell Nurse
17. Roman Josi
18. Dougie Hamilton
19. Alex Pietrangelo
20. Filip Forsberg
21. Bo Horvat
22. Mika Zibanejad
23. Mark Scheifele
24. Connor Hellebuyck
25. Ilya Sorokin
26. Tomas Hertl
27. Logan Couture
28. J.T. Miller
29. John Carlson
30. Brent Burns
31. Sean Couturier
32. Jared Spurgeon
33. Morgan Rielly
34. Noah Hanifin
35. Devon Toews
36. Kevin Hayes
37. Anders Lee
38. Marc-Édouard Vlasic
39. Gabriel Landeskog
40. Nazem Kadri
41. Ryan McDonagh
42. Justin Faulk
43. Chris Kreider
44. Torey Krug
45. Colton Parayko
46. Brayden Schenn
47. Tom Wilson
48. Hampus Lindholm
49. Travis Sanheim
50. Ryan Ellis
51. Damon Severson
52. MacKenzie Weegar
53. Ryan Pulock
54. Valeri Nichushkin
55. Brad Marchand
56. Jonas Brodin
57. Gustav Forsling
58. T.J. Oshie
59. Vincent Trocheck
60. Zach Hyman
61. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins
62. Scott Mayfield
63. Nicholas Paul
64. Pierre Engvall
As a Sharks fan, our team is the prime example of mistakes made giving out these contracts. Each of Couture, Burns, Vlasic, Karlsson, Kane, and Hertl's contracts fit this category and came back to bite the Sharks, all but one of which they are still eating the consequences of some 8 years later. Remember, Karlsson won the Norris and had no value because of his contract.
Just this off season, we've seen Skinner and Atkinson bought out, Trouba (likely) on the move, and Goodrow discarded (6 years contract, but still) just because of contracts, and that's not even beginning to talk about players on unmovable deals like Tavares, Huberdeau, Doughty, Nurse and so on.
And on top of these deals being bad for teams, they are really limiting to players outside of the immense money. I bet there are tons of players who would like a fresh start or chance in a different org that can't because of a bad contract. All in all, these contracts, more often than not, are limiting and restricting.
So, I know teams operate in a "worry about that later" mentality, but the writing is on the wall: these contracts rarely work out. Will we see an end to this and see more people follow Matthews and take shorter deals?
Here are the contracts. I've bolded the ones I feel are "bad" or represent a mistake that a team tried to get out of.
1. Nathan MacKinnon
2. Artemi Panarin
3. William Nylander
4. Erik Karlsson
5. David Pastrnak
6. John Tavares
7. Drew Doughty
8. Carey Price
9. Jonathan Huberdeau
10. Sergei Bobrovsky
11. Tyler Seguin
12. Johnny Gaudreau
13. Jamie Benn
14. Mark Stone
15. Seth Jones
16. Darnell Nurse
17. Roman Josi
18. Dougie Hamilton
19. Alex Pietrangelo
20. Filip Forsberg
21. Bo Horvat
22. Mika Zibanejad
23. Mark Scheifele
24. Connor Hellebuyck
25. Ilya Sorokin
26. Tomas Hertl
27. Logan Couture
28. J.T. Miller
29. John Carlson
30. Brent Burns
31. Sean Couturier
32. Jared Spurgeon
33. Morgan Rielly
34. Noah Hanifin
35. Devon Toews
36. Kevin Hayes
37. Anders Lee
38. Marc-Édouard Vlasic
39. Gabriel Landeskog
40. Nazem Kadri
41. Ryan McDonagh
42. Justin Faulk
43. Chris Kreider
44. Torey Krug
45. Colton Parayko
46. Brayden Schenn
47. Tom Wilson
48. Hampus Lindholm
49. Travis Sanheim
50. Ryan Ellis
51. Damon Severson
52. MacKenzie Weegar
53. Ryan Pulock
54. Valeri Nichushkin
55. Brad Marchand
56. Jonas Brodin
57. Gustav Forsling
58. T.J. Oshie
59. Vincent Trocheck
60. Zach Hyman
61. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins
62. Scott Mayfield
63. Nicholas Paul
64. Pierre Engvall