Behn Wilson
Registered User
I think there may be more movement then ever before among Restricted Free Agents under the new system.
You can essentially steal one of your key opponents top restricted free agents with an exorbitant offer if they lack the cap room to match it. And if they choose to match your offer than you forced your opponent into using up a good portion of their cap (and potentially weakening their team) or at least more than they originally intended to.
It may lead to teams purging talent from teams like Philly or Vancouver that you would have assumed were locks to stay with their teams because they were only restricted free agents.
It will be very interesting once this free agency season commences. It would behoove teams to lock up their desired RFAs under long term contracts as quick as possible.
You can essentially steal one of your key opponents top restricted free agents with an exorbitant offer if they lack the cap room to match it. And if they choose to match your offer than you forced your opponent into using up a good portion of their cap (and potentially weakening their team) or at least more than they originally intended to.
It may lead to teams purging talent from teams like Philly or Vancouver that you would have assumed were locks to stay with their teams because they were only restricted free agents.
It will be very interesting once this free agency season commences. It would behoove teams to lock up their desired RFAs under long term contracts as quick as possible.