Joffrey Lupul is a $5+ million cloud hanging over the Toronto Maple Leafs, and he’s almost untradeable – almost.
Steve Simmons wrote that Lupul told friends he might have played his last game in Toronto. That’s going to be difficult to accomplish without him getting a phantom injury.
Bryan Bickell was just moved, but he makes $1.25M less than Lupul, and has one less year on his current contract. They aren’t really comparable bad contracts – even though Bickell’s disgusting 5v5 points/60 of 0.50 was much less than Lupul’s almost equally bad 0.79 in comparison to dollars paid.