The Leafs stretched Oliver Ekman-Larsson’s term to push his annual average down to $3.5 million per season. Here is the list of defensemen who signed between $3-4 million:
- TJ Brodie, $3.75Mx2
- Shayne Gostisbehere – $3.2Mx3
- Ilya Lyubushkin – $3.25Mx3
- Joel Edmundson – $3.85×4
- Alexandre Carrier – $3.75Mx3
- Sean Walker – $3.6Mx5
- Alec Martinez – $4Mx1
- Brenden Dillon – $4Mx3
- Matthew Dumba – $3.75×2
- Ian Cole – $3.1Mx1
- Tyler Myers – $3Mx3
- Jalen Chatfield – $3Mx3
If you couldn’t – or didn’t want to – sign the big-ticket defensemen (Matt Roy, Brady Skjei, Nikita Zadorov, Brandon Montour, or Brett Pesce), this was the next tier of available defenders on the open market.