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Originally Posted by David Struch

Tyler Wotherspoon is still a RFA at the end of this season.

https://www.capfriendly.com/players/tyler-wotherspoon

He'll (most likely) be a Group 6 Free Agent: https://www.capfriendly.com/faq#ufa6

What is a Group VI UFA?

A player whose contract is expiring and meets all of the following conditions shall become an unrestricted free agent (UFA):

1. The player is 25 years or older (as of June 30th of the calendar year the contract is expiring).
2. The player has completed 3 or more professional seasons - qualified by 11 or more professional games (for an 18/19 year old player), or 1 or more professional games (for a player aged 20 or older). This can include NHL, minor league, and European professional league seasons played while under an SPC.
3. The player has played less than 80 NHL games, or 28 NHL games of 30 minutes or greater for a goaltender.

• Wotherspoon's 25th birthday is March 12.
  
  
• He is currently in his 5th professional season.
  
  
• As of today, he has played in 30 NHL regular season games and 6 playoff games. The only way he won't become a UFA on July 1 is if he can somehow play in 44 more NHL games by the end of the season. The Flames have 26 regular season games remaining. He could still qualify if he was called up soon and the Flames went on a long playoff run (at least to the Conference Finals). If he doesn't get called up within the next 10 games, it will be mathematically impossible even if the Flames were to play 4 seven game series.