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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague

Well, Dom has already done the work for us, and the answer is Drew Doughty. Not that Doughty is an awful defenseman, but he's overpaid by so much and the deal lasts so long that it's just a black hole of negative value. Vlasic is second ($7M x 6 years), as he's taken a huge nose dive in performance the past few seasons and is now about replacement level - he's basically the new Brent Seabrook.

Interestingly, 8 of the top 10 worst are all defensemen, with only Skinner and Ryan Johansen representing the forwards. I think if you asked the question a few years ago, they'd mostly be forwards, but a lot of that bad crop of 2016 deals (Eriksson, Lucic, Okposo, Ladd) only have a couple of years left on them.

That all these elite defensemen took a nosedive after they turned 30 (or even earlier) makes it all the more impressive that Giordano has been able to maintain such strong underlying numbers at his age.