This year's free-agent crop has one amazing talent in Steven Stamkos—who is young enough to have a long run with a new team—and several attractive and expensive options.
In most years, a Stamkos or Milan Lucic would have been signed. In the case of the Tampa Bay Lightning and Los Angeles Kings, respectively, the cap crunch makes it very difficult to sign players. This week, those teams and others will attempt to trade out bad contracts—even if there is a loss in value—in an effort to get into the conversation.
This year's free-agent pool is heavy on goalies, light on defense and all of the scoring forwards are going to get paid. The cap hits may be less this year—cap problems are rife throughout the league—but as we have seen in every year, the great NHL players will be handsomely rewarded for long terms.
Here are the top free agents based by position on projected future performance.
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