Worst contracts...by Stanley Cup champions

[ES]

Every month or so there is a topic on worst contracts of all time. And same ones are always listed. Those contracts usually deprive chances to build a team to contend, so this let me thinking: the worst contracts in the teams which actually won the Cup?

If Oilers somehow make the miraculous comeback, Nurse will be there but if they don't, it won't be.

Blackhawks 2010 maybe had some, as the team was helped by Toews and Kane still being on ELCs. Fleury was beaten for a starter job by Murray in the Penguins double, so surely it is one of those as well, even though he then played well with Vegas who didn't win the Cup.

So which players should be listed?

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[Bjornar Moxnes]

Every month or so there is a topic on worst contracts of all time. And same ones are always listed. Those contracts usually deprive chances to build a team to contend, so this let me thinking: the worst contracts in the teams which actually won the Cup?

If Oilers somehow make the miraculous comeback, Nurse will be there but if they don't, it won't be.

Blackhawks 2010 maybe had some, as the team was helped by Toews and Kane still being on ELCs. Fleury was beaten for a starter job by Murray in the Penguins double, so surely it is one of those as well, even though he then played well with Vegas who didn't win the Cup.

So which players should be listed?

If Bobrovsky was a sieve, he'd be up there.

 

[Dr Pepper]

If Bobrovsky was a sieve, he'd be up there.

Full credit to him for turning it around, too.......early in that contract it wasn't looking good, I thought they were going to jettison Bob and roll with Spencer Knight.

Good thing they kept him around.

 

[Avs2022]

Eric Johnson making $6million a year on the Avs 2022 team was bad. But super happy he stayed and got a cup.

 

[HockeyVirus]

Tavares next season

 

[Golden_Jet]

Tavares next season

Who did he get traded to?

 

[kingsholygrail]

Worst contract at the time they won or worst after they won?

 

[TheReelChuckFletcher]

Eric Johnson making $6million a year on the Avs 2022 team was bad. But super happy he stayed and got a cup.

TBF, that was the very tail end of the contract, when it always sort of looks bad.

 

[ColbyChaos]

Every month or so there is a topic on worst contracts of all time. And same ones are always listed. Those contracts usually deprive chances to build a team to contend, so this let me thinking: the worst contracts in the teams which actually won the Cup?

If Oilers somehow make the miraculous comeback, Nurse will be there but if they don't, it won't be.

Blackhawks 2010 maybe had some, as the team was helped by Toews and Kane still being on ELCs. Fleury was beaten for a starter job by Murray in the Penguins double, so surely it is one of those as well, even though he then played well with Vegas who didn't win the Cup.

So which players should be listed?

2010 Hawks didnt have any as Huets cap hit was able to be stashed overseas due to some weird loophole

 

[JianYang]

Tavares next season

Lol let's start with a round first.

 

[Leafs87]

2010 Hawks didnt have any as Huets cap hit was able to be stashed overseas due to some weird loophole

Brian Campbell’s contract was awful. % of cap hit on his slightly over 7 mill a year back then basically made them have to trade some good players and basically dismantle their winning team. Over 12% of the cap to be exact

 

[Luigi Lemieux]

Every month or so there is a topic on worst contracts of all time. And same ones are always listed. Those contracts usually deprive chances to build a team to contend, so this let me thinking: the worst contracts in the teams which actually won the Cup?

If Oilers somehow make the miraculous comeback, Nurse will be there but if they don't, it won't be.

Blackhawks 2010 maybe had some, as the team was helped by Toews and Kane still being on ELCs. Fleury was beaten for a starter job by Murray in the Penguins double, so surely it is one of those as well, even though he then played well with Vegas who didn't win the Cup.

So which players should be listed?

Neither Fleury nor Murray were bad contracts. Pens needed both of them to win those cups.

 

[WarriorofTime]

Cristobal Huet was an expensive backup. Helped that Kane and Toews were in ELC and Keith was on a nothing deal.

 

[StreetHawk]

2010 Hawks didnt have any as Huets cap hit was able to be stashed overseas due to some weird loophole

It was from the original cap CBA in 2005. They didn't count all 1 way contracts, only those on the NHL roster. That was the loophole they missed.
So, you can only go back to 2013 when they closed it where all 1 way deals were counted save for the $1 mill of relief that you got for removing that player from your team and replacing him with someone else.

 

[The Great Mighty Poo]

Off the top of my head, Eric Fehr in 15/16 and even that was bad per say more a slight over payment and was traded at the following years deadline.

 

[Big Daddy Cane]

Oleg Tverdovsky ($2.5 mil/$5.35 mil adjusted ) - Frequent healthy scratch during Carolina’s run. Traded as a cap dump in the Jack Johnson deal.

Brooks Orpik ($5.5 mil/$6.12 mil adjusted) - 3rd pairing D for the 2018 Caps. Traded as a cap dump in the Grubauer deal. Bought out and was allowed to re-sign with the Caps.

Tyler Johnson ($5 mil/$5.12 mil adjusted) - 4th liner for the 2021 Lightning. This is what Kucherov’s LTIR really helped Tampa with; he may have otherwise forced out a Killorn/Palat or required more substantial assets to trade or a more cutthroat approach with the Cirelli and Cernak negotiations (negatively effecting subsequent years). Tampa dealt him with a 2nd and took back Seabrook’s LTIR contract after the season.

 

[HockeyVirus]

Lol let's start with a round first.

*yawn* Leafs have won a round

 

[Nothingbutglass]

*yawn* Leafs have won a round

thread title says cup champs...sorry....you gotta go

 

[HockeyVirus]

thread title says cup champs...sorry....you gotta go

I'm guessing 99.999999% of unique users in this sites history have never won a cup

 

[Nothingbutglass]

I'm guessing 99.999999% of unique users in this sites history have never won a cup

what? that has nothing to do with the thread. pay attention. No Leaf is on this list, so your input isnt required.

 

[RunItBackAgain]

I mean Spencer Knight makes what, 4.5M on this Florida team? He hasn't played an NHL game this year.

 

[HockeyVirus]

what? that has nothing to do with the thread. pay attention. No Leaf is on this list, so your input isnt required.

Did you follow the comment trail or just wanted to take a shot at the Leafs?

Edit: Anyways, I was making a joke and then it turned into lame win a round comments despite them winning one. I am done, enjoy your Saturday night.

 

[Nothingbutglass]

Did you follow the comment trail or just wanted to take a shot at the Leafs?

Did you read the thread title or did you just need to try to inject the Leafs into the thread when it doesnt apply to them at all?

Did you follow the comment trail or just wanted to take a shot at the Leafs?

Edit: Anyways, I was making a joke and then it turned into lame win a round comments despite them winning one. I am done, enjoy your Saturday night.

Whats your favorite Leafs cup winning bad contract player?

 

[JianYang]

*yawn* Leafs have won a round

Congrats!

 

[RunItBackAgain]

Did you read the thread title or did you just need to try to inject the Leafs into the thread when it doesnt apply to them at all?


Whats your favorite Leafs cup winning bad contract player?

He said Tavares next season. It was a valid comment meant light heartedly and then the other guy decided to make it a poo flinging contest.