Dustin Wolf’s whopping seven-year deal for an AAV of $7.5 million, off 71 NHL games in Calgary, has thrown the goalie contract landscape into a quagmire.

If Wolf’s deal, which now puts him as the 10th highest-salaried NHL goalie, is getting that dough as a restricted free-agent, what about Stuart Skinner, coming up on his shot at unrestricted free agency? The Edmonton Oilers goalie, who has played 50 playoff games at 26 with two trips to the Stanley Cup Final, is UFA next July 1. Now, Skinner certainly has his critics here, and they’re loud, but he’s played three times the NHL games, including playoffs, as Wolf.

And he’s won more playoff games than Connor Hellebuyck, the current NHL MVP.

Skinner, who turns 27 in November, is on a bargain-basement $2.6 million AAV here and certainly the Oilers know how lucky they are when, say, Kevin Lankinen is making $4.5 million in Vancouver. Obviously, Skinner needs a strong Oilers regular season — better from start to finish — than last year’s early stumble. If he does and the Oilers don’t entertain a goalie trade at the deadline, and he has a long playoff run, how much does he make on a new deal?

The Oilers seem in a wait and see mode. They’re going to sign defenceman Jake Walman, 29, also a UFA next July, before Skinner, who says there’s been no substantive talks on an extension. So we’ll see where this goes for the Oilers starter.

But Wolf, 24, just got $7.5 million AAV, which starts next season. He’s a battler who has proven everybody wrong about his size. But he has played less than an NHL season with zero NHL playoff games. The $7.5 million AAV is $1.25 million more than the equally inexperienced Lukas Dostal (121 games) just got in Anaheim, and they’re both RFAs.

Dostal has 42 career wins, Wolf has 37. Skinner has 124 including playoffs.

“It’s going to be an absolutely fascinating process because there is such a divergence of opinion out there. That’s people who are paid to make decisions and evaluate talent at a National Hockey League level,” said Kevin Woodley, who knows the goalie market and the landscape better than just about anybody in his work with InGoal magazine.

“What we’re seeing is nobody is getting to market,” said Woodley. “Teams are eager to retain what they have. It’s the devil you know, so to speak.” That’s Igor Shesterkin, Ilya Sorokin, Juuse Saros, Hellebuyck. And young guys like Jake Oettinger, Wolf, Dostal as RFAs, looking at a cap going up. No team with a good, young goalie wants to risk an offer sheet.

“But it’s all over the map. It’s Joey Daccord being a No. 1 (in Seattle) and getting $5 million. It’s MacKenzie Blackwood having all kinds of success in Colorado and looking like his potential is being fulfilled and he’s a $5-million (actually $5.25-million) goalie,” said Woodley.

“The overarching feeling is if you can’t fix it in free agency, then at least, ‘We know what our guy is and what he isn’t.’ I think Stu Skinner’s value in Edmonton may be higher than anywhere else. There’s a lot of different league-wide opinions on Stu.”

Many people think Blackwood, 28, is a good comparable in terms of a big-body, gets in the way of pucks tender of similar age. So is Skinner’s ceiling $5.25 million AAV from the Oilers? Who knows? But it seems a reach to think that Wolf, with no NHL playoff experience, or Dostal in the same boat, could make considerably more. But, as Woodley says, it’s an intriguing time for goalies

When you play the amount of playoff games Skinner has at his age and you also get to two Cup finals against the Panthers, beating Oettinger and Dallas twice along the, that’s a major positive. But with more eyeballs on you in the playoffs, you also get picked apart on an NHL-wide scale the more you stand in the net, until you win the big prize. If you’ve been pulled for backup Calvin Pickard or sat while he played at times over the last two springs, that’s a red flag for some. Or they say you’re only winning playoff games because you have Connor McDavid and Lon Draisaitl in front of you.

Skinner, who is in the mix for a Canadian team Olympic spot if he plays well from October through December, is a good NHL goalie. But, there’s still question marks around the league about his worth long-term after his three-year Oilers deal ends because, well, goalies are under more heat than anybody else.

Woodley likes Skinner but knows it’s a tough business.

“How many guys are looking (at Skinner) and saying this guy puts us over the top? That’s not a criticism, that’s a reality. So is anybody breaking that bank? If you’re the Oilers you’re saying ‘We don’t want to lose him, but how far do we go?’ ” said Woodley.

What Skinner does is win. He’s 98-54-14 in regular season and 26-22 in playoffs.

Again, who knows how much Skinner is really worth? Jeremy Swayman, 26, got an eight-year, $66-million deal off 152 games, including playoffs in Boston.

If the Oilers look at an older starter at the deadline, like the New York Islanders Ilya Sorokin, 30, he makes $8.25 million AAV for seven more years, tied for fifth-highest in the league. Nashville’s Juuse Saros, 30, is $7.74 million AAV for the next eight. He is ninth. Saros kept the underachieving Predators in the game in the first third of last season until the weight of it got to him and his play dropped off.

Here are the top 10 in current NHL goalie AAVs:

1. Igor Shesterkin (Rangers), $11.5 million AAV.

2. Sergei Bobrovsky (Florida), $10 million.

3. Andrei Vasilevskiy (Tampa), $9.5 million.

4. Connor Hellebuyck (Winnipeg), $8.5 million.

5. Jake Oettinger (Dallas), $8.25 million.

5. Ilya Sorokin (New York Islanders), $8.25 million

5. Linus Ullmark (Ottawa), $8.25 million

5. Jeremy Swayman (Boston), $8.25 million.

9. Juuse Saros (Nashville), $7.74 million

10. Dustin Wolf (Calgary), $7.5 million

Bobrovsky and Vasilevskiy with two apiece are the only goalies with Cup rings.