An excerpt from The Hockey News (Ken Campbell):

Say what you want about the money Carter will be making on the new deal, which will be about $15 million for three years. What many hockey people are finding encouraging is it seems for the moment – and we stress, for the moment – teams are coming to the realization that giving ridiculous terms to young players is not the way to go.

We can thank the Nashville Predators for a lot of that. Going into free agency season, the Predators had two potential restricted free agents on defense and they could have elected to lock them up contractually until the youngsters needed Grecian Formula.

Instead, the Predators signed Shea Weber to a three-year deal worth about $4.5 million per season and Ryan Suter to a four-year pact worth $3.5 million per season.