from David Staples of the Edmonton Journal,...

This year he ranks 15th on the list of scariest contracts in the National Hockey League.

The other Oilers connections here are sixth ranked Milan Lucic, who was a Peter Chiarelli signing in Edmonton on that infamous day of July 1, 2016, when a handful of scary contracts were handed out, with underachievers Lucic, Louie Eriksson, Andrew Ladd, Frans Nielsen, Kyle Okposo and David Backes all inking major deals.

Nielsen was signed in Detroit by current Oilers GM Ken Holland, who we can hope learned his lesson, though there’s a rumour that Holland just offered goalie Jacob Markstrom a seven year, $35 million deal....

Here’s 30 more deals, which have now run their course, that didn’t go well.

Ken Holland is in the middle of two of them, paying far too much for Justin Abdelkader and Stephen Weiss.

more on bad contracts handed out around the league...