LadyStanley
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Are the NHL's pending UFAs finally seeing the money?
Yahoo Sports looks at the crop of (first eligible) UFAs and how Tavares may have started an exodus of players to other teams.
Sharks pending UFAs include Thornton, Pavelski, Donskoi, Sorenson, Heed, Tim Clifton, Radil Lukas.
Wondering how this will impact guys deciding to re-sign with Sharks or testing the UFA waters.
Yahoo Sports looks at the crop of (first eligible) UFAs and how Tavares may have started an exodus of players to other teams.
Even with the acknowledgement that a number of these guys will probably re-sign with their current teams before July 1, next summer’s UFA class could be something the likes of which we have just never seen in hockey. Off the top of my head, guys whose contracts expire next summer include Sergei Bobrovsky, Artemi Panarin, Erik Karlsson, Matt Duchene, Mark Stone, Taylor Hall, Tyler Seguin, Jeff Skinner, Jordan Eberle, and probably a few more that I’m forgetting.
If even half of them hit the free agent market, that’s a lot of top guys in their mid-to-late 20s who will be looking for a lot of money next summer (and hoping the salary cap jumps as much as it did this year). I can’t imagine we’ve seen a single summer in the cap era in which so many borderline elite guys would go to market at the same time. And that doesn’t even count the number of players who are maybe a step or two below that level but who would, under normal circumstances, have commanded a pretty good-sized pay increase.
Sharks pending UFAs include Thornton, Pavelski, Donskoi, Sorenson, Heed, Tim Clifton, Radil Lukas.
Wondering how this will impact guys deciding to re-sign with Sharks or testing the UFA waters.