{"id":794032,"date":"2026-07-11T18:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T18:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/794032\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T18:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T18:44:13","slug":"ranking-the-10-worst-nhl-contracts-on-the-books-for-the-2026-27-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/794032\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranking the 10 Worst NHL Contracts on the Books for the 2026-27 Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The Devils are a fascinating team because they&#8217;ve got a host of juicy contracts that draw our attention, but it&#8217;s Timo Meier&#8217;s eight-year, $70.4 million deal that he&#8217;s entering his fourth year of that landed him on our list. With an $8.8 million cap hit for the big Swiss winger, there are high offensive expectations that come with it, which he hasn&#8217;t quite met.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Over the past three years in New Jersey, Meier has been good for 20+ goals and 50-60 points per season. He&#8217;d previously been a 30-40-goal player for the San Jose Sharks, and the hope was that by coming to the Devils, he&#8217;d slide in next to Jack Hughes or Nico Hischier and continue doing so. Unfortunately, that hasn&#8217;t happened. Meier&#8217;s been a solid, consistent player, but with a big contract like he&#8217;s got, more is needed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Devils are a fascinating team because they&#8217;ve got a host of juicy contracts that draw our attention,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":794033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-794032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/794033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}