Speculation: Why are the RFA's not signing?

[viper0220]

There a lot of RFA"s that have not been signed yet, why is that?


https://www.capfriendly.com/browse/free-agents/2017/caphit/all/all/rfa

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[not a troll]

They're all getting traded.

 

[hockeykicker]

Because they have a lot of time to sign their rfa, since the odds of someone offer sheeting them is pretty rare.

 

[Number1RedWingsFan52]

Since when have RFAs ever been signed before free agency? They've up right before training camp to get a deal done and that's not until mid August. They will get signed here i think both Mrazek and DeKeyser are close with Detroit. The RFA offers just went out right before free agency it takes time a few RFAs have resigned already.

 

[ottawa]

Because there's no hurry to sign them, you sign your free agents first since there's limit of when you can sign them until before they get released.

RFAs typically get signed after the free agency market cools down, and everyone is basically gone now except a handful of guys.

 

[Mad Brills*]

Don't they have to file for arbitration before july 5th?

 

[thepuckmonster]

 

[Skinnyjimmy08]

cause agents wanna get paid huge

its all about money

 

[Shootertooter]

Plenty of time. All attention on ufas.

 

[StuckOutHere]

This happens every year.

 

[Slush]

They are holding out for more money of course.

 

[Maukkis]

It's their plan all along. They'll run far, far away while everyone's dishing out top dollar to the older FAs.

 

[EP to Kuzmenko]

Don't they have to file for arbitration before july 5th?

They have to be a certain age for that I thought?

 

[The Red Line]

This is how it always is...

 

[mouser]

Don't they have to file for arbitration before july 5th?

There's no benefit to doing so before the 5th. In fact it would probably give a player less leverage to file early.

 

[Number1RedWingsFan52]

They have to be a certain age for that I thought?

Yup i think you've to have so many season under your belt and be at least 24 years old i believe.

 

[edguy]

Yup i think you've to have so many season under your belt and be at least 24 years old i believe.

Yup. This. Mike Hoffman is the only one off the top of my head likely to apply for Arbitration

 

[mouser]

Yup i think you've to have so many season under your belt and be at least 24 years old i believe.

A short cliff notes version:

Players signed at age 18-20 need to be one year removed from their ELC.

Players signed at age 21+ will be arbitration eligible after their ELC.

There are more details that could change that for an individual player like missing a season due to injury, but those simplified criteria will cover 95%+ of the players. The youngest a player could be arbitration eligible is age 22 (an 18 year old signee who played 4 seasons in the NHL).

 

[Adam Michaels]

Habs qualified 4 RFAs and signed 3 of them (Andrighetto, Barberio & Carr) and are negotiating with the 4th one (Danault).

If there is 1 unsigned UFA I wouldn't mind Habs offer sheeting, it's Tampa's Nikita Kucherov.