Since practically the start of the salary cap era, NHL free agency has been more or less synonymous with bad deals. Teams drop six to seven years and a large cap hit on some third liner because they won a Stanley Cup or a well respected veteran due to having “leadership” or other “intangibles.” Those same teams come to regret those signings only a few years later, if not sooner.
For the pessimists among Dallas Stars fans, the above description lends itself perfectly to Ryan Suter’s new contract, which my colleague David Castillo broke down here.