The Wild West – A Look at the History of Long-Term Deals for Players over 27
Dobber
2022-09-05
Before J.T. Miller re-signed with the Vancouver Canucks on Friday night for seven years at $8 million AAV beginning next season when he will be 30 years old. I was going to write an article about what I considered the 15 worst current contracts in the West.
With all the discussion in Vancouver and around the league I thought it would be interesting to look at the history of similar deals instead.
The parameters set begin July 1st, 2011 with minimums of five years, $6 million AAV and signed at 27 years of age or later.
Since free agency began in 2011, 89 of these contracts were signed and here they are broken down by calendar year:
2011: 2
2012: 2
2013: 10
2014: 3
2015: 5
2016: 10
2017: 4
2018: 10
2019: 15
2020: 7
2021: 11
2022: 10
Just looking at the breakdown of the past 12 years, the trend is certainly growing as 53 of the 89 (59.5%) contracts have been signed over the past five years.
Now we are going to look at each year in detail and try to determine what value each deal brought to the table over the length of the contract. We need to keep in mind that the average salary is between $2.8 and 3.0 million over this timespan. All of these players should be well above average and should be held to a higher standard.
We are going to use WAR as the comparable to each of these players from Evolving Wild. We aren't going to deal with gradual declines but look at the contract as a whole to see how they compare.
2011 contracts (1 of 2 successful)
Pekka Rinne 29 G NSH 2011 7 $49,000,000 $7,000,000
Over these seven seasons, he spent all of them with Nashville and overall his WAR was 12.4 with three seasons at minus WAR with his top three years being 4.3, 5.1 and 5.9. His average WAR was 1.77/season. His WAR to salary ratio is 0.25. Signed by David Poile.
Brad Richards 31 C, LW NYR 2011 9 $60,000,000 $6,666,666
This contract was a disaster as Richards lasted two seasons before the Rangers bought him out after the 2013-14 season. The Rangers are still being hit with $1.05 million of salary cap each year until the end of 2025-26. Glen Sather was the GM. He had seasons of 0.7 and 0.9 of WAR in the two years under contract. His WAR to salary ratio is 0.03.
2012 (0 for 2)
Ryan Suter 27 LD MIN 2012 13 $98,000,000 $7,538,462
Suter was bought out after nine seasons. Suter had a cumulative WAR of 15.8 over the nine seasons with Minnesota with an average of 1.76. His WAR to salary ratio was 0.16.
Zach Parise 27 LW MIN 2012 13 $98,000,000 $7,538,462
Parise was bought out after nine seasons along with Suter. His cumulative WAR was 12.0 over the nine seasons with Minnesota with an average of 1.33. His WAR to salary ratio was 0.12.
Both contracts were signed by Chuck Fletcher.
2013 (4 for 10)
Dion Phaneuf 29 LD TOR 2013 7 $49,000,000 $7,000,000
He lasted one and three quarter seasons with Toronto before being traded to Ottawa where he was subsequently bought out by the Los Angeles Kings after the 2018-19 season. His cumulative WAR over the five seasons he played was negative 2.3 with an average of negative 0.46. His War to salary ratio was less than zero. He was signed by David Nonis.
Henrik Lundqvist 32 G NYR 2013 7 $59,500,000 $8,500,000
The contract was bought out after the 2019-20 season by the Rangers. Over the six seasons his cumulative WAR was 19.8 with an average of 3.3. His WAR to salary ratio was 0.33. He was signed by Glen Sather.
Corey Crawford 29 G CHI 2013 6 $36,000,000 $6,000,000
He played all six seasons with Chicago and had a cumulative WAR of 21.3 for an average of 3.55. His WAR to salary ratio was 0.59. He was signed by Stan Bowman.
Joe Pavelski 29 RW, C SJS 2013 5 $30,000,000 $6,000,000
Pavelski played all five seasons with San Jose and is still going strong with Dallas. His cumulative WAR was 13.7 with an average of 2.74. To put things in perspective his last season with Dallas at the age of 37, he had a WAR of 3.9. His WAR to salary ratio was 0.46. He was signed by Doug Wilson.
Patrice Bergeron 28 C BOS 2013 8 $55,000,000 $6,875,000
Bergeron played all eight years with Boston and just re-signed for an additional season next year at the age of 37. His cumulative WAR was 22.9 with an average of 2.86. His WAR to salary ratio was 0.42. He was signed by Peter Chiarelli.
Evgeni Malkin 27 C PIT 2013 8 $76,000,000 $9,500,000
Malkin played all eight years with Pittsburgh and just re-signed for another four more seasons with them at $6.1 million AAV (that will be judged later). His cumulative WAR was 13.2 with an average of 1.65. His WAR to salary ratio was 0.17 and was signed by Ray Shero. I was surprised by this one as I thought he would have one of the better ratios.
Kris Letang 27 RD PIT 2013 8 $58,000,000 $7,250,000
Letang played all eight years with the Penguins and just re-signed for another six years at $6.1 million AAV. His cumulative WAR was 12.2 with an average of 1.53. His WAR to salary ratio was 0.21. He was signed by Ray Shero.
Alexander Semin 29 RW, LW CAR 2013 5 $35,000,000 $7,000,000
Semin played two years in Carolina before being bought out after the 2014-15 season. His cumulative WAR was 2.2 and averaged 1.1 over the two years. His WAR to salary ratio was 0.06. He was signed by Jim Rutherford.
Corey Perry 28 RW ANA 2013 8 $69,000,000 $8,625,000
Perry played six of the eight years with Anaheim before being bought out at the end of the 2018-19 season. His cumulative WAR over the six years was 9.3 with an average of 1.55. His WAR to salary ratio was 0.13. He was signed by Bob Murray.
Ryan Getzlaf 27 C ANA 2013 8 $66,000,000 $8,250,000
Getzlaf played all eight seasons and re-signed for another year before retiring after last season. His cumulative WAR was 11.1 with an average of 1.39. His WAR to salary ratio was 0.17. He was signed by Bob Murray.
2014 (1 for 3)
Bobby Ryan 28 RW, LW OTT 2014 7 $50,750,000 $7,250,000
Ryan was bought out just before the 2020-21 season so played five seasons of the contract with Ottawa. He had a cumulative WAR of 3.8 with an average of 0.76. His WAR to salary ratio was 0.07. He was signed by Bryan Murray.
David Krejci 28 C BOS 2014 6 $43,500,000 $7,250,000
Krejci played all six seasons for Boston and after playing in Europe last year he is back in Boston for 2022-23. His cumulative WAR was 11.2 with an average of 1.87. His WAR to salary ratio was 0.26. He was signed by Peter Chiarelli.
Cory Schneider 29 G NJD 2014 7 $42,000,000 $6,000,000
Schneider was bought out after the 2019-20 season after playing five seasons with New Jersey. His cumulative WAR was 6.3 with an average of 1.26. His WAR to salary ratio was 0.15. He was signed by Lou Lamoriello.
2015 (1 for 5)
Brent Seabrook 31 RD CHI 2015 8 $55,000,000 $6,875,000
Seabrook was able to play four seasons before being shut down with injury. His contract has been traded to Tampa Bay. His cumulative WAR over the four seasons was negative 2.3 with an average of negative 0.58. His WAR to salary ratio was less than zero. He was signed by Stan Bowman.
Erik Johnson 28 RD COL 2015 7 $42,000,000 $6,000,000
Johnson has played six of the seven seasons with Colorado. His cumulative WAR was 3.7 with an average of 0.62. His WAR to salary ratio was 0.10. He was signed by Joe Sakic.
Mark Giordano 32 LD CGY 2015 6 $40,500,000 $6,750,000
Giordano played all six seasons of his contract with Calgary. His cumulative WAR was 12.0 with an average of 2.0. His WAR to salary ratio was 0.30. He was signed by Brad Treliving.
Ryan Kesler 31 C, RW ANA 2015 6 $41,250,000 $6,875,000
Kesler was only able to play in three of the six seasons because of injuries. His cumulative WAR was negative 2.9 with an average of negative 1.0. His WAR to salary ratio was less than zero. He was signed by Bob Murray.
Johnny Boychuk 31 RD NYI 2015 7 $42,000,000 $6,000,000
Boychuk was healthy enough to play five seasons for the Islanders before being shut down with injuries. His cumulative WAR was 1.8 with an average of 0.36. His WAR to salary ratio was 0.04. He was signed by Garth Snow.
2016 (1 for 10)
Brent Burns 32 RD SJS 2016 8 $64,000,000 $8,000,000
Burns has played five of the eight years under this contract and was traded to Carolina with three years remaining. His cumulative WAR was 4.8 for an average of 0.96. His WAR to salary ratio was 0.12. He was signed by Doug Wilson.
Brad Marchand 29 LW BOS 2016 8 $49,000,000 $6,125,000
Marchand has played five of the eight years. His cumulative WAR was 16.5 for an average of 3.3. His WAR to salary ratio was 0.54. He was signed by Don Sweeney.
Jamie Benn 27 LW, C DAL 2016 8 $76,000,000 $9,500,000
Benn has played five of the eight years on this contract. His cumulative WAR was 8.5 with an average of 1.7. His WAR to salary ratio was 0.18. He was signed by Jim Nill.
Loui Eriksson 30 LW, RWVAN 2016 6 $36,000,000 $6,000,000
Eriksson completed his six seasons with Vancouver and Arizona. His cumulative WAR was 1.2 for an average of 0.2. His WAR to salary ratio was 0.03. He was signed by Jim Benning.
David Backes 32 C, RW BOS 2016 5 $30,000,000 $6,000,000
Backes played his five seasons with Boston and Anaheim and has now retired. His cumulative WAR was 3.1 with an average of 0.62. His WAR to salary ratio was 0.10. He was signed by Don Sweeney.
Milan Lucic 28 LW EDM 2016 7 $42,000,000 $6,000,000
Lucic is in the final year of this contract and has played with Edmonton and now Calgary. He has a cumulative WAR of 1.9 with an average of 0.32. His WAR to salary ratio was 0.05. He was signed by Peter Chiarelli.
Kyle Okposo 28 RW BUF 2016 7 $42,000,000 $6,000,000
Okposo is entering the last year of his contract with Buffalo and has played all six seasons there. His cumulative WAR was 3.7 with an average of 0.62. His WAR to salary ratio was 0.10. He was signed by Tim Murray.
Keith Yandle 29 LD FLA 2016 7 $44,450,000 $6,350,000
Yandle was bought out after five seasons by Florida. He signed last year with Philadelphia and is currently an unrestricted free agent. His cumulative WAR was 1.0 for the five years with an average of 0.2. His WAR to salary ratio was 0.03. He was signed by Tom Rowe.
Dustin Byfuglien 31 RD WPG 2016 5 $38,000,000 $7,600,000
Byfuglien played three seasons and missed the fourth before the Jets terminated the contract after the 2019-20 season. His cumulative WAR was 2.6 with an average of 0.87. His WAR to salary ratio was 0.11. He was signed by Kevin Cheveldayoff.
Anze Kopitar 28 C LAK 2016 8 $80,000,000 $10,000,000
Kopitar has played six of the eight seasons on this contract. His cumulative WAR was 9.9 with an average of 1.65. His WAR to salary ratio was 0.17. He was signed by Dean Lombardi.
2017 (0 for 4)
Kyle Turris 28 C, RW NSH 2017 6 $36,000,000 $6,000,000
Turris was bought out by Nashville after two seasons. The Predators have a cap hit of $2 million each season until the end of 2027-28. Turris just retired after playing last season with Edmonton. His cumulative WAR was negative 0.8 with an average of negative 0.4. His WAR to salary ratio was less than zero. He was signed by David Poile.
Alexander Radulov 30 RW DAL 2017 5 $31,250,000 $6,250,000
Radulov played all five seasons of his contract before returning to the KHL this year. His cumulative WAR was 7.1 for an average of 1.42. His WAR to salary ratio was 0.23. He was signed by Jim Nill.
Carey Price 29 G MTL 2017 8 $84,000,000 $10,500,000
Price has played four seasons with Montreal and has four years remaining under this contract. He has had injury issues over the past few years. His cumulative WAR was 5.8 for an average of 1.45. His WAR to salary ratio was 0.14. He was signed by Marc Bergevin.
Marc-Édouard Vlasic 31 LD/RD SJS 2017 8 $56,000,000 $7,000,000
Vlasic has played four seasons with the Sharks and has four years remaining on this contract. His cumulative WAR was negative 1.8 with an average of negative 0.45. His WAR to salary ratio was less than zero. He was signed by Doug Wilson.
2018 (2 for 10)
Tyler Seguin 27 C, RW DAL 2018 8 $78,800,000 $9,850,000
Seguin has played three seasons with Dallas and has five more remaining under contract. His cumulative WAR was 1.3 with an average of 0.43. His WAR to salary ratio was 0.04. He was signed by Jim Nill.
Blake Wheeler 32 RW, C WPG 2018 5 $41,250,000 $8,250,000
Wheeler has played three seasons with Winnipeg and has two more remaining on this deal. His cumulative WAR was 0.5 with an average of 0.17. His WAR to salary ratio was 0.02. He was signed by Kevin Cheveldayoff.
Ryan Ellis 28 RD NSH 2018 8 $50,000,000 $6,250,000
Ellis played two seasons with Nashville and just four games after being traded to Philadelphia. He has five more years under contract. His cumulative WAR was 4.7 with an average of 1.57. His WAR to salary ratio was 0.25. He was signed by David Poile. If Ellis can stay healthy this still has a chance to be one of the 'good' deals.
John Tavares 27 C TOR 2018 7 $77,000,000 $11,000,000
Tavares has played four seasons with Toronto and has three more under this contract. His cumulative WAR was 8.6 with an average of 2.15. His WAR to salary ratio was 0.19. He was signed by Kyle Dubas.
Drew Doughty 29 RD LAK 2018 8 $88,000,000 $11,000,000
Doughty has played three years of this contract with the Kings and has five years remaining. His cumulative WAR was 1.4 with an average of 0.47. His WAR to salary ratio was 0.04. He was signed by Rob Blake.
James van Riemsdyk 29 LW, RWPHI 2018 5 $35,000,000 $7,000,000
Van Riemsdyk has played four seasons with the Flyers and is entering the last year under this contract. His cumulative WAR was 3.3 with an average of 0.83. His WAR to salary ratio was 0.12. He was signed by Ron Hextall.
Ryan McDonagh 30 LD TBL 2018 7 $47,250,000 $6,750,000
McDonagh played the first three seasons of this contract with Tampa Bay but was traded to Nashville this off season. He has four years remaining on this deal. His cumulative WAR was 1.1 with an average of 0.37. His WAR to salary ratio was 0.05. He was signed by Steve Yzerman.
Logan Couture 30 C, LW SJS 2018 8 $64,000,000 $8,000,000
Couture has played the three years of this deal with San Jose and has five more years remaining. His cumulative WAR was 1.4 with an average of 0.47. His WAR to salary ratio was 0.06. He was signed by Doug Wilson.
Oliver Ekman-Larsson 27 LD ARI 2018 8 $66,000,000 $8,250,000
Ekman-Larsson played the first two seasons of this deal with Arizona before being dealt to Vancouver before the third year. He has five more seasons left on this deal. Arizona did retain almost $1 million each year remaining. His cumulative WAR was 1.7 for an average of 0.57. His WAR to salary ratio was 0.07. He was signed by John Chayka.
John Carlson 28 RD WSH 2018 8 $64,000,000 $8,000,000
Carlson has played the first four years of this contract with the Capitals and has four years remaining. His cumulative WAR was 7.2 for an average of 1.8. His WAR to salary ratio was 0.23. He was signed by Brian MacLellan.
2019 (8 for 14)
Roman Josi 30 LD NSH 2019 8 $72,472,000 $9,059,000
Josi has played two years of his eight year deal with Nashville and is coming off a 96-point season. His cumulative WAR was 3.9 for an average of 1.95. His WAR to salary ratio was 0.22. He was signed by David Poile.
Brayden Schenn 28 C, LW STL 2019 8 $52,000,000 $6,500,000
Schenn has played two years with the Blues and has six years remaining. His cumulative WAR was 1.4 for an average of 0.7. His WAR to salary ratio was 0.11. He was signed by Doug Armstrong.
Justin Faulk 28 RD STL 2019 7 $45,500,000 $6,500,000
Faulk has played two years with St. Louis and has five years remaining. His cumulative WAR was 4.5 for an average of 2.25. His WAR to salary ratio was 0.35. He was signed by Doug Armstrong.
Jared Spurgeon 30 RD MIN 2019 7 $53,025,000 $7,575,000
Spurgeon has played two seasons with Minnesota and has five years remaining. His cumulative WAR was 3.2 for an average of 1.6. His WAR to salary ratio was 0.21. He was signed by Bill Guerin.
Anders Lee 28 LW, C NYI 2019 7 $49,000,000 $7,000,000
Lee has played three seasons with the Islanders and has four remaining under this contract. His cumulative WAR was 2.3 for an average of 0.77. His WAR to salary ratio was 0.11. He was signed by Lou Lamoriello.
Tyler Myers 29 RD VAN 2019 5 $30,000,000 $6,000,000
Myers has played three seasons with Vancouver and has two remaining. His cumulative WAR was negative 0.5. His WAR to salary ratio was negative. He was signed by Jim Benning.
Mats Zuccarello 31 RW, LWMIN 2019 5 $30,000,000 $6,000,000
Zuccarello has played three seasons with the Wild and has two remaining. His cumulative WAR was 4.1 for an average of 1.37. His WAR to salary ratio was 0.23. He was signed by Paul Fenton.
Artemi Panarin 27 LW NYR 2019 7 $81,500,000 $11,642,857
Panarin has played three seasons with the Rangers and has four remaining under this contract. His cumulative WAR was 7.3 for an average of 2.43. His WAR to salary ratio was 0.21. He was signed by Jeff Gorton.
Matt Duchene 28 C, LW NSH 2019 7 $56,000,000 $8,000,000
Duchene has played three years in Nashville and has four remaining on this contract. His cumulative WAR was 5.3 for an average of 1.77. His WAR to salary ratio was 0.22. He was signed by David Poile.
Sergei Bobrovsky 30 G FLA 2019 7 $70,000,000 $10,000,000
Bobrovsky has played three years in Florida and has four years remaining. His cumulative WAR was 3.6 for an average of 1.2. His WAR to salary ratio was 0.12. He was signed by Dale Tallon.
Kevin Hayes 27 C PHI 2019 7 $50,000,000 $7,142,857
Hayes has played three seasons in Philadelphia and has four years left. His cumulative WAR was 0.2 for an average of 0.07. His WAR to salary ratio was 0.01. He was signed by Chuck Fletcher.
Erik Karlsson 29 RD SJS 2019 8 $92,000,000 $11,500,000
Karlsson has played three seasons in San Jose with five years remaining. His cumulative WAR was 1.4 for an average of 0.47. His WAR to salary ratio was 0.04. He was signed by Doug Wilson.
Jeff Skinner 27 LW, RWBUF 2019 8 $72,000,000 $9,000,000
Skinner has played three years with Buffalo and has five years left on this contract. His cumulative WAR was 2.2 for an average of 0.73. His WAR to salary ratio was 0.08. He was signed by Jason Botterill.
Brock Nelson 27 C, LW NYI 2019 6 $36,000,000 $6,000,000
Nelson has played three years with the Islanders and has three years remaining. His cumulative WAR was 3.6 for an average of 1.2. His WAR to salary ratio was 0.20. He was signed by Lou Lamoriello.
Mark Stone 27 RW VGK 2019 8 $76,000,000 $9,500,000
Stone has played three years with Vegas and has five seasons remaining on this contract. His cumulative WAR was 6.5 for an average of 2.17. His WAR to salary ratio was 0.23. He was signed by George McPhee.
Here are the remaining contracts under our criteria signed over the past three years. The players only have two seasons so it might be a little early to draw complete conclusions.
2020
Brendan Gallagher | 29 | RW | MTL | 2020 | 6 | $39,000,000 | $6,500,000 |
Alex Pietrangelo | 30 | RD | VGK | 2020 | 7 | $61,600,000 | $8,800,000 |
Torey Krug | 29 | LD | STL | 2020 | 7 | $45,500,000 | $6,500,000 |
Jacob Markstrom | 30 | G | CGY | 2020 | 6 | $36,000,000 | $6,000,000 |
Jonas Brodin | 27 | LD | MIN | 2020 | 7 | $42,000,000 | $6,000,000 |
Chris Kreider | 29 | LW | NYR | 2020 | 7 | $45,500,000 | $6,500,000 |
Nicklas Backstrom | 32 | C | WSH | 2020 | 5 | $46,000,000 | $9,200,000 |
2021
Morgan Rielly | 28 | LD | TOR | 2021 | 8 | $60,000,000 | $7,500,000 |
Ryan Pulock | 27 | RD | NYI | 2021 | 8 | $49,200,000 | $6,150,000 |
Mika Zibanejad | 29 | C | NYR | 2021 | 8 | $68,000,000 | $8,500,000 |
Colton Parayko | 29 | RD | STL | 2021 | 8 | $52,000,000 | $6,500,000 |
Sean Couturier | 29 | C | PHI | 2021 | 8 | $62,000,000 | $7,750,000 |
Darnell Nurse | 27 | LD | EDM | 2021 | 8 | $74,000,000 | $9,250,000 |
Dougie Hamilton | 28 | RD | NJD | 2021 | 7 | $63,000,000 | $9,000,000 |
Alex Ovechkin | 35 | LW | WSH | 2021 | 5 | $47,500,000 | $9,500,000 |
Gabriel Landeskog | 28 | LW, C | COL | 2021 | 8 | $56,000,000 | $7,000,000 |
Seth Jones | 27 | RD | CHI | 2021 | 8 | $76,000,000 | $9,500,000 |
Jordan Binnington | 27 | G | STL | 2021 | 6 | $36,000,000 | $6,000,000 |
2022
J.T. Miller | 30 | LW, C | VAN | 2022 | 7 | $56,000,000 | $8,000,000 |
Nazem Kadri | 31 | C | CGY | 2022 | 7 | $49,000,000 | $7,000,000 |
Jonathan Huberdeau | 30 | LW | CGY | 2022 | 8 | $84,000,000 | $10,500,000 |
Ondrej Palat | 31 | LW, RW | NJD | 2022 | 5 | $30,000,000 | $6,000,000 |
Johnny Gaudreau | 28 | LW | CBJ | 2022 | 7 | $68,250,000 | $9,750,000 |
Valeri Nichushkin | 27 | RW | COL | 2022 | 8 | $49,000,000 | $6,125,000 |
Filip Forsberg | 27 | LW | NSH | 2022 | 8 | $68,000,000 | $8,500,000 |
Kris Letang | 35 | RD | PIT | 2022 | 6 | $36,600,000 | $6,100,000 |
Hampus Lindholm | 28 | LD | BOS | 2022 | 8 | $52,000,000 | $6,500,000 |
Tomas Hertl | 28 | C, RW | SJS | 2022 | 8 | $65,100,000 | $8,137,500 |
I didn't know what the result would be before writing this article, but the number of contracts that don't work out for older players is much worse than I thought. There are other means to measure success, but using WAR is a consistent measurement to use with salary.
To put things in perspective here is Johnny Gaudreau's contract that just expired with Calgary (six years – $6.75 million AAV). His cumulative WAR was 16.9 for an average of 2.82. His WAR to salary ratio was 0.42.
I've put relatively successful contracts with a WAR to salary ratio of 0.20 but really these players should be around 0.30 or higher for the money they are being paid.
An argument could be made that teams are paying for three or four years of high production and eating the last two to four years of the contract. That makes things even more bleak for these signings as we can see a lot of them aren't panning out after one or two seasons.
Here are the players signed from 2011 through 2019 ranked by WAR to salary ratio from best to worst:
Corey Crawford | 29 | G | CHI | 2013 | 0.59 |
Brad Marchand | 29 | LW | BOS | 2016 | 0.54 |
Joe Pavelski | 29 | RW, C | SJS | 2013 | 0.46 |
Patrice Bergeron | 28 | C | BOS | 2013 | 0.42 |
Justin Faulk | 28 | RD | STL | 2019 | 0.35 |
Henrik Lundqvist | 32 | G | NYR | 2013 | 0.33 |
Mark Giordano | 32 | LD | CGY | 2015 | 0.3 |
David Krejci | 28 | C | BOS | 2014 | 0.26 |
Ryan Ellis | 28 | RD | NSH | 2018 | 0.25 |
Pekka Rinne | 29 | G | NSH | 2011 | 0.25 |
Mats Zuccarello | 31 | RW | MIN | 2019 | 0.23 |
Mark Stone | 27 | RW | VGK | 2019 | 0.23 |
John Carlson | 28 | RD | WSH | 2018 | 0.23 |
Alexander Radulov | 30 | RW | DAL | 2017 | 0.23 |
Roman Josi | 30 | LD | NSH | 2019 | 0.22 |
Matt Duchene | 28 | C | NSH | 2019 | 0.22 |
Jared Spurgeon | 30 | RD | MIN | 2019 | 0.21 |
Artemi Panarin | 27 | LW | NYR | 2019 | 0.21 |
Kris Letang | 27 | RD | PIT | 2013 | 0.21 |
Brock Nelson | 27 | C, LW | NYI | 2019 | 0.2 |
John Tavares | 27 | C | TOR | 2018 | 0.19 |
Jamie Benn | 27 | LW, C | DAL | 2016 | 0.18 |
Anze Kopitar | 28 | C | LAK | 2016 | 0.17 |
Evgeni Malkin | 27 | C | PIT | 2013 | 0.17 |
Ryan Getzlaf | 27 | C | ANA | 2013 | 0.17 |
Ryan Suter | 27 | LD | MIN | 2012 | 0.16 |
Cory Schneider | 29 | G | NJD | 2014 | 0.15 |
Carey Price | 29 | G | MTL | 2017 | 0.14 |
Corey Perry | 28 | RW | ANA | 2013 | 0.13 |
Sergei Bobrovsky | 30 | G | FLA | 2019 | 0.12 |
James van Riemsdyk | 29 | LW | PHI | 2018 | 0.12 |
Brent Burns | 32 | RD | SJS | 2016 | 0.12 |
Zach Parise | 27 | LW | MIN | 2012 | 0.12 |
Brayden Schenn | 28 | C, LW | STL | 2019 | 0.11 |
Anders Lee | 28 | LW, C | NYI | 2019 | 0.11 |
Dustin Byfuglien | 31 | RD | WPG | 2016 | 0.11 |
David Backes | 32 | C, RW | BOS | 2016 | 0.1 |
Kyle Okposo | 28 | RW | BUF | 2016 | 0.1 |
Erik Johnson | 28 | RD | COL | 2015 | 0.1 |
Jeff Skinner | 27 | LW | BUF | 2019 | 0.08 |
Oliver Ekman-Larsson | 27 | LD | ARI | 2018 | 0.07 |
Bobby Ryan | 28 | RW, LW | OTT | 2014 | 0.07 |
Logan Couture | 30 | C, LW | SJS | 2018 | 0.06 |
Alexander Semin | 29 | RW, LW | CAR | 2013 | 0.06 |
Ryan McDonagh | 30 | LD | TBL | 2018 | 0.05 |
Milan Lucic | 28 | LW | EDM | 2016 | 0.05 |
Erik Karlsson | 29 | RD | SJS | 2019 | 0.04 |
Tyler Seguin | 27 | C, RW | DAL | 2018 | 0.04 |
Drew Doughty | 29 | RD | LAK | 2018 | 0.04 |
Johnny Boychuk | 31 | RD | NYI | 2015 | 0.04 |
Loui Eriksson | 30 | LW, RW | VAN | 2016 | 0.03 |
Keith Yandle | 29 | LD | FLA | 2016 | 0.03 |
Brad Richards | 31 | C, LW | NYR | 2011 | 0.03 |
Blake Wheeler | 32 | RW, C | WPG | 2018 | 0.02 |
Kevin Hayes | 27 | C | PHI | 2019 | 0.01 |
Tyler Myers | 29 | RD | VAN | 2019 | 0 |
Kyle Turris | 28 | C, RW | NSH | 2017 | 0 |
Marc-Édouard Vlasic | 31 | LD/RD | SJS | 2017 | 0 |
Brent Seabrook | 31 | RD | CHI | 2015 | 0 |
Ryan Kesler | 31 | C, RW | ANA | 2015 | 0 |
Dion Phaneuf | 29 | LD | TOR | 2013 | 0 |
Thanks for reading and if you have any questions or players you'd like me to look at please message or follow me on Twitter @gampbler15.
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Great article. Thanks for the deep analysis.
ELC 19-21
Bridge 22-24
Big contract 24-30
Tail end deal 30+
If I were signing contracts.