![]() Hughes provided the club with a massive amount of surplus value this past season and he’s set to continue to be on an absolute steal of a second contract for four more years.Ģ. His current deal could end up even lower than that depending on what K’Andre Miller and Vince Dunn sign for as restricted free agents this summer. And he’s signed to a contract that will make him the 20th highest-paid NHL blueliner next season. Quinn Hughes cemented his status as one of the very best defensemen in the NHL this past season.īy any reasonable measure, Hughes, who took significant steps as a two-way player this past season, is clearly a top-10 player in the world at his position. ![]() Quinn Hughes ($7.85 million AAV through 2026-27) So which Canucks players are on steal contracts? Which Canucks players are signed to fair deals? And which contracts are significant millstones that will have to be worked around next year (and in the years ahead)?ġ. It’s also important to note this is a ranking of pure contract efficiency - how much value a player provides relative to his contract - and we’ve completely disregarded factors like opportunity cost and trade value in compiling this ranking. GSVA is a tool and a useful one, but it’s only one input. ![]() In producing these tiers and ranking these players, we’ve weighted the GSVA-based assessment of “market value” heavily, but not dogmatically. ![]() The Athletic’s player cards use GSVA to assign a “market value” to every player in the league, which despite some issues with the final update gives us a rough snapshot of how much value each player provided to the Canucks last season, relative to their contract. We’re also leaning on The Athletic’s player cards tool, which is based on Dom Luszczyszyn’s familiar Game Score Value Added (GSVA) model (read more about the methodology here). In doing so we’ve decided to limit our analysis to exclude all two-way deals, entry-level contracts and pending restricted free agents who will likely return to the club next season. It’s also why we focus so obsessively on the cap in our coverage of the Vancouver Canucks.Īs the Stanley Cup playoffs enter their second half on Thursday evening and we patiently await the meat of the Canucks offseason, we figured we’d go about ranking the efficiency of the one-way contracts currently on Vancouver’s books. It’s this paradigm that makes the contracts that teams sign and the way they allocate their cap spend so influential in determining team quality and outcomes over the course of an 82-game season (and into the playoffs, where the upper limit is lifted). ![]()
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