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 its core of talented players together. Therefore, 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.
We looked not just at dollar figure but also at length of contract. A one-year deal at low dollars can help a team win right now, but a four-year deal at modest dollars is a key building block both in the present and in the future. We looked for the kind of deals that help teams win championships.
Read on for our picks as each team's best-value contract.
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