The NHL free-agent market is rarely as exciting that of the three other majors sports, almost by design. The league has been under a salary-cap structure long enough for general managers to know how to work the system, and the league's robust trade market makes "bad" contracts avoidable.
By and large, teams will re-sign their star-level veterans to long-term deals regardless of whether they have plans of actually fulfilling them. This is almost by design. Both teams and players have the incentive to stay together as long as possible thanks to the collective bargaining agreement, which usually leaves only mid-tier guys available come July.
That will especially be the case this summer, as the crop of players with expiring contracts is average (at best) before anyone re-signs with his incumbent team. On the other hand, the relatively weak crop means that more "top" players will likely be on the move.
Let's take a look at a few players hitting the open market and find their best matches.
Devan Dubnyk, G, Minnesota Wild
It's hard to believe the Wild would entertain allowing Dubnyk to ...
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