Will Huberdeau’s contract go down as the worst contract in NHL history?

[BRobMint]

I know there’s been other terrible contracts that people are gonna name in this thread. But considering the initial reactions to the Tkachuk trade and Huberdeau’s historic drop in production, could his contract go down as the worst in NHL history? He’s currently scoring at a 42 point pace. He’s being paid $10.5 mill to be a top point producer and he’s putting up middle six production

The only way I can ever see him turning around is if the Flames bottom out for a bit and hopefully get some high end forward prospects who can take the pressure off of him and/or he can benefit playing along side

Tre really f***ed our team for years with this contract

 

[Skiiiiiiinerrr]

Trying to root for the guy. I'm sure he's a decent human being. But, f*** me, he is invisible 90-95% of the time. Each and every game. It gets beyond vexing.

 

[doorbag]

Rick Dipietro was an absolute doozie of a contract when you look at how his career turned out but yeah Huberdeau might actually be worse. As an Oiler fan all too familiar with franchise crippling bad contracts you love to see it.

 

[BurgoShark]

 

[Al Lagoon]

Regrettable trade for the Flames to be sure.

 

[Cup Or Bust]

It's pretty bad although I thought it was too much to begin with even after his 115 point season. I never imagined it would get this bad this fast though. I thought he would at least be a 25 goal, 80+ point player for the Flames for a few years. What makes it worse is the team likely has to face the reality of rebuilding and not only will his contract make him near impossible to trade, he has no asset value to even help the rebuild. They traded the guy they should have traded for rebuild assets for him as the main piece. Tough situation.

 

[Fig]

Regrettable trade extension for the Flames to be sure.

Fixed.

I like the dude. Not the contract.

 

[TheNumber4]

I really wonder how much Zito knew. Panthers fans didn’t seem too upset when Huberdeau was shipped off.

 

[Siludin]

Vlasic

 

[FDBluth]

Rick Dipietro was an absolute doozie of a contract when you look at how his career turned out but yeah Huberdeau might actually be worse. As an Oiler fan all too familiar with franchise crippling bad contracts you love to see it.

aren't the Flyers like still paying Pronger?

 

[zar]

Chiarelli gave the Oilers Koskinen as his going away gift. Treliving gave the Flames, Huberdeau.

… Flames win! Win? Win!

 

[The Abusement Park]

Rick Dipietro was an absolute doozie of a contract when you look at how his career turned out but yeah Huberdeau might actually be worse. As an Oiler fan all too familiar with franchise crippling bad contracts you love to see it.

At least injuries played a big part in DiPietro’s issues. Huberdeau has just completely fallen off a cliff.

 

[Hockey4Lyfe]

Dude there are at least 5 guys I can name off the top of my head with worst contracts just this year. And I’m not even that big of a hockey fan.

 

[Kevin27nyi]

Rick Dipietro was an absolute doozie of a contract when you look at how his career turned out but yeah Huberdeau might actually be worse. As an Oiler fan all too familiar with franchise crippling bad contracts you love to see it.

DP was an all star goalie and an Olympian but got 400 knee and hip injuries, what's Huberdeau's excuse?

 

[Suntouchable13]

Jeff Finger. Considering Cliff Fletcher thought he was signing a completely different player, or so the rumour went.

 

[Fatass]

Dude there are at least 5 guys I can name off the top of my head with worst contracts just this year. And I’m not even that big of a hockey fan.

Who?

 

[Hockey4Lyfe]

Who?

Vlasic, Jones, Backstrom… I guess I was wrong with 5.

 

[BRobMint]

Vlasic, Jones, Backstrom… I guess I was wrong with 5.

I would trade Huby for all of those guys straight up if I could.

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

Hindsight is 20/20 of course but let this be a lesson to other hockey GMs: Don't immediately re-sign a guy who has yet to play for you. And I mean if there's a year to think about an extension. If the Flames had extended him after the season last year he comes in at considerably cheaper. Or they trade him for a nice package.

 

[Strangle]

Was t there a thread here just the other day asking the same question about Matthews?

 

[AnInjuredJasonZucker]

Dude there are at least 5 guys I can name off the top of my head with worst contracts just this year. And I’m not even that big of a hockey fan.

Hockey4Lyfe is not a big hockey fan.

 

[AfroThunder396]

People are quick to forget all of the atrocious deals handed out in the mid-late 00's that got conveniently bailed out by compliance buyouts - Christian Ehrhoff, Brad Richards, Ilya Bryzgalov, Vinny Lecavalier, and a few other bad ones.

Also ignoring some of the bizzare deals before the lockout like (Alexi Yashin, Bobby Holik) or in the first few years after the lockout (Rick DiPietro, Jeff Finger, Wade Redden).

 

[Les LatterDaySkates]

I know there’s been other terrible contracts that people are gonna name in this thread. But considering the initial reactions to the Tkachuk trade and Huberdeau’s historic drop in production, could his contract do down as the worst in NHL history? He’s currently scoring at a 42 point pace. He’s being paid $10.5 mill to be a top point producer and he’s putting up middle six production

The only way I can ever see him turning around is if the Flames bottom out for a bit and hopefully get some high end forward prospects who can take the pressure off of him and/or he can benefit playing along side

Tre really f***ed our team for years with this contract

It’s an incredibly bad contract.

Entirely likely Huberdeau goes down as his generation’s Yashin.

“we’re f***ed for years” - less so.

The roster isn’t great. It has no elite players.

Huberdeau, Weegar and Kadri combine to count about $23M against the cap - nobody else is signed past two years. If nothing else, Huberdeau prevents them from signing an extra stupid UFA, though Conroy has yet to demonstrate the same weakness for that as his predecessor.

The cap is going to be $100M halfway through the deal, and isn’t going down unless there’s another pandemic.

Add three years of good draft picks/prospects to what’s already here, and the back half of the deal could be surprisingly productive as he becomes one of the longest-tenured Flames.

Not off to a great start, but the player was also put in a pretty impossible situation.

 

[Beukeboom Fan]

Vlasic

Just IMO - but if Huberdeau doesn't bounce back (and guys like Skinner have bounced back) you're looking at a guy who is probably overpaid by $6-7M per year over a 8 year contract. That translates to $50M'ish overpaid. Vlasic's entire last contract was only $56M (8Yr x $7M). Vlasic reminds me a lot of Seabrook - a warrior d-man with a TON of hard mileage and their body just gives out. Won't surprise me a bit if after he retires we hear things about Vlasic like we did about Seabrook where he couldn't raise his arms past his shoulders, etc.

 

[BB88]

Vlasic, Jones, Backstrom… I guess I was wrong with 5.

All of them are dream contracts compared to Hubs.

7.5 years left at 10.5M