I nearly choked my tea when I saw Timonen on that list…

Finger, really? $3.5 million for Finger is worse than LEAGUE MAX for Scott “11 goals” Gomez?

Gotta disagree with some of those, how could they forget:

Eric Staal – $8.25M to 2016 (not even a ppg player; on pace for 35 goals)
Brad Richards – $7.8M to 2011 (four straight years of declining production)
Scott Gomez – $7.3M to 2014 (goals scored past 2 years: 13, 16; on-pace for 16)
Paul Kariya – $6M to 2011 (his career has been an injury waiting to happen)

Clicked it, saw “theprovince” in the address bar, killed the tab before it loaded. That crap will rot your brain.

The craziest part about DiPietro’s 15-year, $67.5-million deal isn’t that it’s the longest deal in NHL history — it’s that the Isles are still paying for the buyout of Alexei Yashin’s 10-year, $87.5-million contract, the second-longest in NHL history. And they’ll be doing that until 2014-15, to the tune of a whopping $2.2 million per season. If you think about it, it’s kind of like marrying a stripper, divorcing her, saying "Phew, glad that’s over, all that’s left is the alimony," and then remembering you married another stripper before you divorced the first one.

I agree with all of the criticisms of the article noted above – but that part is funny.

That’s a poor list. Timonen’s contract, evidently, is lousy because Briere makes too much money for them to sign Coburn a few years from now?

I’ve never seen why Finger’s contract is so bad. He’s overpaid; that’s the transaction cost they paid to acquire him. He plays more, scores more, gets paid less than Cory Sarich; why isn’t Sarich’s contract one of the worst in the league?