Browsing: Contracts

With the NHL’s changing financial landscape and rising salary cap, finding value in as many contracts as possible is becoming more difficult for general managers across the league

In March, I ranked the 15 worst contracts in the NBA. Some of those rankings aged well. Joel Embiid was overpaid then and he’s overpaid now. Some of them do not. The ranking committee offers its sincere apologies to NBA champion Karl-Anthony Towns, who just had one of the greatest statistical playoff runs in league…

[Correction:This article was revised at 12:55 p.m. ET on July 30, 2026, to correct a paraphrase of Rob Sand’s comments about his ideas for Iowa’s Medicaid managed-care program.]

For the most part, the biggest names on the NHL’s UFA market have received new contracts. With the dust relatively settled, it’s a good time to focus on some of the worst contracts handed out this summer

Story by Ben RohrbachSenior writer Tue, July 14, 2026 at 3:07 PM UTC·10 min read

It’s no secret that the pay scale for NHL star players transformed the moment Leo Carlsson put pen to paper on a five-year, $18-million AAV offer sheet from the Philadelphia Flyers that was ultimately matched by the Anaheim Ducks. 

In a period of the NHL season where most general managers make their biggest mistakes, the best general managers are not only the ones who turn off their phones July 1, but the ones who comb the free agency market for the best deals they can find. Why pursue a big-name player who will cost…

The Pittsburgh Penguins have signed forward Egor Chinakhov to a three-year contract, goaltender Arturs Silovs to a one-year contract, forward David Gustafsson to a one-year contract and goaltender Joel Blomqvist to a two-year contract, it was announced today by President of Hockey Operations and General Manager Kyle Dubas