Sunday, May 3, 2020

2020 Worst NHL Contract Twitter Poll Bracket Challenge

While hockey fans are still sitting at home with nothing to watch, lingering in limbo, I decided to start a "Twitter poll bracket challenge" to elect the worst contract in the NHL for 2020. The main criteria is amount overpaid multiplied by years remaining (factoring expected age decline into the equation). There will be 32 contracts nominated, 4 per poll. 8 polls in the first round, with the top 2 vote getters in each poll advancing to the next round. Second round will be reseeded based on vote % in round 1.

Here is my preliminary list of nominees. Below that you'll find a list of "maybe" contracts. I will listen to some feedback before officially launching the challenge. If you feel strongly that any of these nominees need to be swapped with someone from the maybe list, make your case. Honestly, there's enough bad contracts in the league that I could have done a 64 contract challenge, but 15 total polls is already more than enough....

NOMINEES


Age Term Left Cap Left
Jeff Skinner 29 7 63.0
Sergei Bobrovsky 31 6 60.0
Marc-Edouard Vlasic 34 6 42.0
Brent Seabrook 36 4 27.5
Zach Parise 37 5 37.7
Milan Lucic 33 3 18.0
Erik Karlsson 31 7 80.5
Shea Weber 36 6 47.1
Drew Doughty 31 7 77.0
Jamie Benn 32 5 47.5
Ryan McDonagh 32 6 40.5
Matt Duchene 30 6 48.0
Carey Price 33 6 63.0
Ryan Johansen 29 5 40.0
Kyle Turris 32 4 24.0
Andrew Ladd 35 3 16.5
Anders Lee 31 6 42.0
Kyle Okposo 33 3 18.0
Bobby Ryan 34 2 14.5
James Neal 34 3 17.3
Martin Jones 30 4 23.0
Justin Abdelkader 34 3 12.8
Loui Eriksson 36 2 12.0
Karl Alzner 32 2 9.3
Anze Kopitar 34 4 40.0
Cory Schneider 34 2 12.0
Frans Nielsen 37 2 10.5
Tyler Myers 31 4 24.0
P.K. Subban 31 2 18.0
Brent Burns 36 5 40.0
Jonathan Quick 34 3 17.4
Ryan Suter 36 5 37.7


MAYBE


Age Term Left Cap Left
Tyler Seguin 28 7 69.0
Logan Couture 31 7 56.0
John Tavares 29 5 55.0
O. Ekman-Larsson 29 7 57.8
Kevin Hayes 28 6 42.6
Mats Zuccarello 33 4 24.0
James van Riemsdyk 31 3 21.0
Jonathan Toews 32 3 31.5
Adam Henrique 31 4 23.2
Evander Kane 29 5 35.0
T.J. Oshie 33 5 28.8
Johnny Boychuk 36 2 12.0
Phil Kessel 32 2 16.0
Joe Pavelski 36 2 14.0
Brandon Tanev 28 5 17.5
Patric Hornqvist 33 3 15.9
Micheal Ferland 28 3 10.5
Alexander Radulov 34 2 12.5
Alexander Wennberg 25 3 14.7

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