Worst Nhl contracts?
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350 games
62 goals
74 assists
That's not what you want from a 1st overall pick, but not the worst ever.
I think those contracts will be rare also especially on 3rd contracts, 2nd maybe not so much. More may do like Matthew's and try to cash in more often. Imagine his next contract.
He has the worst stats of any forward picked, hard to compare defenceman but most have been forwards. Nodody ever picks defensive forwards so he has to be the worst. Fewest games played, lowest points per game, well under .5, he's even brutal in the khl.
Compared to every other forward drafted 1st overall in the NHL draft, he's not the worst statistically.
Two forwards drafted 1st overall never played one game in the league.
Patrick Stefan scored 2 more goals, in 105 more games, for comparison purposes.
Edmonton would like a do-over, certainly.
They'd probably select the player drafted 5th or 11th that year.
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I went through the list and only broten, wickenheiser and Stefan stood out and his stats were worse than theirs. Hard to argue about 2 guys who never played in the league, I didn't notice any on the list I saw but I didn't check every player.
Claude Gauthier 1964
Andre Veillieux 1965
A defenseman was drafted 1st overall in 1967, Rick Pagnutti (LAK), he never played in the NHL either.
There have been a number of situations through the years where teams would like to go back, and take the guy who went 2nd (or 3rd).
Going 2nd to Hartford, behind Daigle? Chris Pronger. 3rd Chris Gratton, 4th, Paul Kariya, 5th, Rob Neidermayer.
One of my best friends is an Ottawa guy, huge Senators fan. He really wanted them to take Kariya.
Oy, the Senators wiffed.
Very early, too early to confirm, but I think the Ottawa Senators may have gotten the best player in this year's draft, with Tim Stutzle, at 3.
The fact he was French made it even more enticing to Ottawa. Daigle even said he only played hockey mostly because he was good at it. He didn't have that extra desire that every player needs regardless of skill level.
Burkey wasn't that stupid
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At the time, if Ottawa selected anybody but Daigle they would have been called idiots for it.
They even turned down a trade offer of Peter Forsberg from the Nordiques for the pick.
$12 million over 5 years for a regular 20+ goal scorer?
And remember he would have done better on any other team; he had noone to pass to or take heat off him
He played for one of the worst teams in NHL history
By that same logic we could say Joe Sakic was awful as Quebec routinely lost 60+ games and (again) Sakic had noone else to carry the team
It was insane he has 102 points from 240 goals.... I think its still an NHL record....
Someone like David Clarkson was worse
WAY worse
Funny read about his days in a Leaf uniform
David Clarkson: The Biggest Fraud In Leafs History
You'd think there are only so many ways to show that Clarkson is terrible right? Well, here are a bunch more
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Not quite
Columbus took Clarkson
Then Clarkson went to Vegas
And Vegas returned Clarkson to Toronto for Garrett Sparks
So they DID end up paying him off in the end
Who was worse seriously?
Yeah Kessel was bad contract but he was an ok (overrated) player
Yeah some trades are laughable
Vancouver dumped Cam Neely (AND Glen Wesley) cause he couldnt play D
Boston sent them back Pederson lol
Ped scored 20 goals for Vancouver
Once
Well, you stretched a long way to get there.
When Toronto reacquired Clarkson, it helped them with salary cap issues.
Why the Leafs Really Traded for David Clarkson
Now that the dust has settled, we can step back and take a look at the entire landscape surrounding the Clarkson trade 2.0. Let’s take a look at why the trade makes sense for both teams, and …
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Two time Stanley Cup champion Phil Kessel?
More than okay.
Jeff Finger is the easiest example.
Oh I agree it helped them pay more for other players (the link goes into details why) but at end of the day
Leafs paid Clarkson an insane amount considering what he was (and was not)
*edit @gcostanza
You really think Fingers 3.5 per year is worse than Clarksons 5.25?
Finger got paid less AND he outscored Clarkson on the ice....
Clarkson 118gp as Leaf, 15 goals, 11 assists, -25
Finger 105gp as Leaf, 8 goals, 25 assists, -18 AND he is a defenceman anyways
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