Ristolainen? Vlasic?

Amazing I'm still seeing skinner on these posts.

Knight as Moore don't belong here. Knight just needs to get back to playing and his contract will look good.

Where are Vlassic and Risto?

You don't get an out of no where career year at 30 years old unless you're feeding off of other true talent on your team. For $9M he's supposed to drive a line...not require help from his linemates. He belongs in this post for sure.

I mean, he does drive play. I don't know what you're supposed to pay a ufa 30+ goal scorer who can and has reached 40+ goals. He was also over a point per game last season. He doesn't belong on this list.

Edit: he's also one of the best 5v5 scorers in the league.

Trouba, Anderson, Strome

Petry doesn't belong on this list at all. Karlsson is a much worse contract and the fact you don't have him on there displays your ignorance.

I mean you hope to pay someone for consistency...not a 5 year average of 49 points in BUF. That's not $9M worthy. All that tells me is that TAGE is amazing. Have JJP, JQ, Krebs someone else jump up there for the bump and spend that $9M more wisely. Yes I know...it's not like BUF's against the cap.

Gotta disagree with a few if these.

Trocheck is decent value. I could argue that the Rangers shouldn't have been his landing spot, but I don't hate the contract.

Nichushkin is expected back and is one of the best all around wingers in the league. If whatever happened is in the rear view mirror, then that contract is good and potentially even great.

Lee is maybe a bit overpaid, but that's due to his deal being pre-covid.

Knight has issues but, similar to Nichushkin, he can bounce back and provide value.

In addition to the names mentioned by others, which I agree with, Copp and Grubauer come to mind as possible additions.

Bobrovsky? Anderson? Trouba? Strome? Vlasic? Karlsson? Killorn? Perry? N. Foligno?

The reason he had down years was because Krueger put him on the fourth line in a defensive role which is the opposite type of player that he is. Please do not tell me that Jeff skinner is a bad player when you have no knowledge of him.

Never said he was bad. He's not worth $9M.

Big Vals contract is market value, 50pt winger with tons of defensive availability, almost a pt/g in the playoffs and some MVP votes after their cup win

The athletic seems to think otherwise

They're bad contracts but, since they're on bad teams that should suck for a while, it doesn't really matter as much

We'll see if Knight can't kick his addiction or whatever problem he has going on but, for now he hasn't.
Moore earned his money but, LAK have so much winger depth that the contract hurts them, they'd be better off without him and more money to sign a better goalie.
Vlasic and Ristolainen are on teams that I think will be bad for longer than the duration of their contracts so, it doesn't matter that the contracts are bad

They aren't as bad IMO as the other guys on this ''team''.

Karlsson is a bad contract but, he plays for a bad team so it doesn't matter. The SJS have cap space and they might sign Tarasenko and Dumba just for the hell of it.
Bad teams always end up with bad contracts, the fact you don't know that shows your lack of intelligence but, thanks for your poor opinion!

I considered Grubauer but, thought the other goalies where bigger detriments to their teams.
Trocheck is fair value but, IMO not the right fit for the Rangers, also his NTC will hurt them, that's why I have him, I felt they could've gone for a cheaper guy last year and tried developing Chytil more, now for better or worse, they're stuck with him
Nichushkin has a potential Russian Hooker problem, outside of that dude is a beast, I haven't heard anything about any suspensions so he should be fine.
If Knights issues are behind him than Bobrovsky's contract takes his place but, we'll see.
As for Lee he signed as getting 40G and hasn't gotten 30 since (he has been close)
I think Copp is slightly overpaid but, pretty close to fair.

a contract being bad has nothing to do with if a team is good or not.

Bobrovsky is bad but, as long as Knight has his issues, it's better to have him who has had a good career and finally a good playoff. If Knight can bounce back from his off ice issues than Bobrovsky would take his place on this list
Trouba isn't as bad as the other on this list IMO and I like the way he plays, underappreciated playing style IMO
The others are bad contracts on bad teams so they don't matter as much, only reason I have a guy like Gallagher here and not those others is because I think the Habs will be challenging for a playoff spot in the 4th year of that deal, even if it doesn't hurt them now, it will hurt them later.
Killorn might hurt Anaheim in the same way Gallagher might hurt MTL but, I need to see Zegras and Terry's contracts also, what they do with Gibson and if they keep Henrique and Silf after this season.

I disagree, I think a contract can't be bad unless it hurts the team now or in the future.
And since I think most bad teams will be rebuilding for close to 4yrs, they contracts don't really matter.
If those teams didn't already have those bad contracts on their teams, they would've acquired them at the TDL for a pick anyway

Yeah Nichushkin's only on this list because we don't know what will happen with that Russian Hooker situation and potential suspensions or NHLPA substance program visit that might follow but, if nothing happens and he plays like he has the lst few years, the dude is a beast

maybe if they didnt have bad contract they would have space to acquire actual good players instead? i mean, i understand your point of view, but i just dont think context matter, otherwise your list should be not which contract is the worst in the nhl, but which contracts makes their team suffer more. If you would put vlasic on any competing team, he would be a bad contract. thats because the contract is inheritly bad.

also, dont know why gallaghers there with your logic since the habs are rebuilding too.

That doesn't make his contract bad. A contract is band when impact a players trade value