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It helps that Darryl Sutter’s system has elevated the play of pretty much everyone on this team, but Flames general manager Brad Treliving has also done a solid job of cleaning out the bad deals, like the Sean Monahan trade to Montreal last month. What really helps the team is that they have the best good contract percentage in the league, highlighted by the fact that they have just three bad deals: Milan Lucic, who has just one year left Kevin Rooney, who comes out as replacement level so even $1.3 million is too much and Nikita Zadorov, a bottom pairing defender making top-four money.

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It helps that they got an elite defenseman in MacKenzie Weegar and a first-line forward in Jonathan Huberdeau in the return for Tkachuk and signed another first-line forward in Nazem Kadri in free agency, but they also had a good foundation set in place that helped them endure this drastic makeover to the top end of their lineup.

It’s not often a team can lose two elite forwards in one offseason and still come out sitting pretty, but the Flames did just that after losing Matthew Tkachuk and Johnny Gaudreau. Calgary FlamesĬontracts with No-Trade/No-Move Clauses: 22nd The Stars also don’t have a ton of options as far as quality cheap depth, so that will make it even tougher for them to work around the inevitable cap crunch when Robertson is finally locked up, along with Roope Hintz’s contract that expires at the end of the season. Radek Faksa comes out as the team’s worst forward but still has three years left at $3.25 million, and both Esa Lindell and Ryan Suter’s contracts aren’t ideal on the back end either. Along with Seguin, Jamie Benn’s $9.5 million AAV contract looks brutal as both players have regressed to a fourth-line level at this point in their careers. The bad contracts are what really hurt this team, as the Stars are very inconsistent when it comes to handing them out, especially the pricier ones. It’s hard to improve on the quality of the Stars’ core, which is the third best in the league, and the core signees would grade out even better if Tyler Seguin’s contract wasn’t one of the three involved, as Mason Marchment and Miro Heiskanen are both elite players at the moment according to my model. It could’ve made Dallas’ score look even better if it was signed. Regardless of the salary, it will be a good contract as he is one of four Stars players that are considered elite. Of course, there is one caveat to their rankings: Jason Robertson still hasn’t been signed as preseason games have begun. Combine that with some smart free agent signings, and it puts them in this top tier. The Stars may have two of the worst contracts in the league at this point, but they’ve also had a bit of a youth resurgence to allow them to navigate around those contracts and be competitive both on the ice and in the finance books.