from Jared Clinton of The Hockey News,

Here are five players who’ve played at least 60 games and proven far too costly for each point they’ve produced during the 2016-17 season:

5. Loui Eriksson, Vancouver Canucks
Points: 11G, 13A, 24 Pts.
Cost Per Point: $250,000

Coming off of one of the best seasons of his career in 2015-16, the Canucks made a splash in free agency to land Eriksson. The thought was that a 30-goal scorer, which he was the year prior in Boston, coming into Vancouver to play alongside the Sedins would give the Canucks a top-line that could help them surprise some people this season. Instead, Eriksson struggled to find his fit on the top line and it took a long while for him to get going.

Eriksson didn’t score his first goal until the 14th game of the campaign, and at that point he had only registered five points. He started to come on stronger after lighting the lamp for the first time — he had six goals by the 23-game mark — but he has since had a 12-game goal drought and is currently on an 11-game skid. He managed two assists in a win over the Kings on Tuesday, though.

4. Benoit Pouliot, Edmonton Oilers
Points: 8G, 6A, 14 Pts.
Cost Per Point: $285,714

It’s nice to know that while the Oilers are getting a huge break on McDavid’s production, they’re also paying a pretty penny for what Pouliot has provided on offense. The thing is it’s not even the low-scoring total that’s do disappointing when it comes to Pouliot, but that it’s coming in a season when he’s actually managed to stay relatively healthy....

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