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Message: [QUOTE="jncuse, post: 5074504, member: 1969"] It's "only" a $9.25m cap hit for Nurse. Absolutely terrible, and still the worst contract for a D in the league, but not quite in the double digits. Ceci is OK at $3.25 million. He has slotted in quite at #5/#6 at Pittsburgh and Edmonton, with the capability to sometimes play on the second pair decently. Not a great contract, not a bad one - but you generally get what you pay for with him. NHL teams probably hope to get a competent player in his first 4 years at that slot to pay a bit less and save $1m+ in cap hit, but its not always possible. We have seen many a July 1 free agent veteran D, get the Ceci type contract and perform far worse afterwards. [/QUOTE]