The 2014-15 season was the first year of Alexei Emelin's contract extension that will pay him $16.4 million over a four-year span.
The deal came with a full no-trade clause in the first two years, with a limited version that kicks in at the start of the 2016-17 season. It was finalized before Emelin had played a single game, after sustaining a season-ending knee injury near the end of the lockout-shortened 2012-13 campaign.
That contract is the fault of Marc Bergevin, who over-estimated Emelin's future impact with the club after a good 38-game sample and unnecessarily put his signature on a four-year extension in the middle of a season in which the player had not yet participated.