Going back to 2014, plenty of money exchanged hands on July 1. This opening day of free agency saw some oddball contracts being handed out to the players.
Taking a look at three of the worst contracts, Ales Hemsky (coming from a 43 points in 75 games regular season) starts this list.
Dallas signed the forward in 2014 to a three-year $12 million contract. Jim Nill still had himself a great offseason by acquiring Tyler Seguin from the Boston Bruins and Jason Spezza from the Ottawa Senators. This signing, however, seems like one Nill would like to erase.