Of all the responsibilities a general manager faces in the modern NHL, perhaps the weightiest is managing the salary cap.
It's especially a concern for the league's best teams. Any club good enough to contend for a championship will at some point face the difficulty of keeping it's core of talented players together, and so it becomes vital to find value wherever possible.
That's what this piece focuses on: finding value. Using General Fanager, we looked through the books of all 30 NHL teams and sought to identify the contracts that deliver the most value to a team looking to win hockey games.