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Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden

Trade aside how bad is Lucic's contract compared to others in the league. for simplicity's sake I havent included all the Ntc and Nmc because the small differences between the two can make things convoluted quickly. This is more or less a direct comparison of some of the leagues worst contracts' cap and term. I suppose the point is to show that although Lucic's contract is objectively bad, it is not some unprecedented albatross.

Lucic, Age: 31, $5,250,000 Contract lasts until 2023.

• Parise, Age: 35, $7,538,461 Contract lasts until 2025
• Bobby Ryan, Age 32, $7,250,000 Contract lasts until 2021
• Weber, Age: 34, $7,857,143 Contract lasts until 2026
• Frans Nielsen, Age: 35, $5,250,000 Contract lasts until 2022
• Abdelkader, Age: 32, $4,250,000 Contract lasts until 2023
• Seabrook, Age: 34, $6,875,000 Contract lasts until 2024
• Kris Russell, Age: 32, $4,000,000 Contract lasts until 2021
• Eriksson, Age:34, $6,000,000 Contract lasts until 2022
• Okposo, Age: 31, $6,000,000 Contract lasts until 2023

Other deals that aren’t so bad now, but clearly won't be better value before Lucic's contract is up.

• Pacioretty Age: 30, $7,000,000 Contract lasts until 2023
• Hörnqvist Age: 32, $5,300,000 Contract lasts until 2023
• Price Age: 32, $10,500,000 Contract lasts until 2026
• Pavelski, Age: 35 $7,000,000 Contract lasts until 2022
• Suter, Age:34, $7,538,461 Contract lasts until 2025
• Kovalchuk, Age: 36 ,$6,250,000 Contract lasts until 2021

I think all of the second category ones are going to look really really bad soon. I guess the one good thing about the RFA price increases is that these types of long term/big money contracts for UFAs are going to be out of the question for a lot of teams.