Happy Friday, kids! As we all find our inner Loverboy, let’s jump into a little puck talk. The buzz on Thursday night was the Calgary Flames signing Jonathan Huberdeau to an eight-year, $84 million contract extension. He’s 29, so we wish them good luck with the final few years of that deal. There’s a good article about big money contracts that we’ll discuss later in today’s bullets.
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#Blackhawks Prospect Landon Slaggert Will Wear an ‘A’ for USA Hockeyhttps://t.co/fxUIOWIfiB pic.twitter.com/EeFy5NSnRq
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Total Breakdown by Sport:
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Some teams just can't resist landing a big fish and handing them a lucrative deal.
Why that's the NHL’s most dangerous kind of contract: https://t.co/0lHeF7ZW3t pic.twitter.com/qwkLUjNBxH— The Athletic NHL (@TheAthleticNHL) August 4, 2022
Last summer, the Blackhawks traded for Seth Jones on July 23, giving up a package of high picks and Adam Boqvist. Jones was heading into the last year of his deal, with UFA status looming, so the Hawks immediately signed him to an eight-year, $76 million extension. That contract raised eyebrows at the time, and a year later it looks like one of the league’s worst, with Dom ranking it number two on his list of bad deals.
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Grading all 32-teams at left wing. https://t.co/3RoFkXEWOe pic.twitter.com/F4cV4lobHW
You could call this tier the ‘we were dominant franchises a decade ago and are now in the throes of a multi-year rebuild’ (San Jose and Chicago), ‘pretending we aren’t but are’ (Philadelphia), and ‘emerging’ (Los Angeles). Across the sixteen expected regular left-wingers within these four teams, we have reasonably high expectations for two of them: Chicago’s Andreas Athanasiou, and San Jose’s Timo Meier.
The Reason Cubs Pitching Prospect Alexander Vizcaino Has Been on the Restricted List All Yearhttps://t.co/I3ZrxTGpKF pic.twitter.com/p7HCXgN9ur— Bleacher Nation (@BleacherNation) August 5, 2022
