NHL free agency: Best landing spots for top 5 remaining free agents
By Alex Hoegler
A handful of notable and impact players, including two future Hall of Famers, remain unsigned in NHL free agency. Here are the best fits for the top five remaining free agents.
In any given year, the vast majority of top-tier NHL free agents are signed away after just a few days. The second tier of free agents are almost always gone after the first few days of NHL free agency as well.
But things have gone much differently this year. The best free agents, namely Artemi Panarin, Sergei Bobrovsky, and Matt Duchene, didn’t have to wait long to find new homes.
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Other notable players like Tyler Myers, Wayne Simmonds, Brett Connolly, Anders Lee, and Robin Lehner also required such little time to choose their new destinations.
The same cannot be said about a handful of big-name free agents whom many thought would be off the market by now.
There are a pair of future Hall of Famers that remain unsigned, even though it’s quite obvious where both of them want to end up.
There’s a captain and three-time Stanley Cup champion who hasn’t decided yet if he wants to come back or not.
Will Justin Williams give it another go with the Carolina Hurricanes? Will he retire? Or could he decide to wind up elsewhere?
Training camp is coming up, and the regular season is just two months away. Sooner or later, these free agents will find new homes or simply make the decision to retire.
With that, let’s take a look at the five best free agents on the market while analyzing the best fits for them.
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