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Originally Posted by Bingo
Lindholm and Hanifin say hi!
Thought he kept Gaudreau and Monahan from setting new league marks as well.
I'm sure there others, and certainly more than Mangiapane.
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Hanifin? He was a borderline #4 with a -20 when he got a contract for just shy of 5M for his RFA years and 2 UFA years This coming season would be Hanifin's last year as an RFA.
Compare that with Trouba who even with Flames homer glasses on was a much better d-man after his ELC got paid 3 x 2 and 5.5 = 11.5 for his first 3 RFA years and then got traded for Pionk and a 1st round pick.
Hanifin is up 3.5 M on what Trouba got and there is no one thinking he is an 8M x 8 D-man
Lindholm turned out as great contract. He did however come in after 5 years in the league and was not a clear top-6 center or player. He was behind Aho and Staal in Carolina and even within the margin or error with Ryan and Victor Rask.
He was a major disappointment after being picked ahead of Monahan. There was absolutely no talk or hope or realistic plan for him to challenge Monahan for #1C. Relative to Monahan Averaging 30 goals / 60 pts for the previous 4 years and had 5 years left at 6.375 giving Lindholm 5+ M would have been absurd.
Barkov who was a #1C was 1 year into his 5.9 x 6 years
Schiefele and MacKinnon were recently signed that made the Gaudreau / Monahan contracts land in the range they did. in 2015-16 neither Monahan nor Gaudreau received a single vote for the Hart Trophy . Gaudreau was 7th in scoring and 19th in goals and Monahan was 29th in pts and 31st in goals It would have been shocking if they set new league standards at the time. No one was saying that they were generational players.