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Originally Posted by Textcritic
Why do people keep asking this? UFAs never become RFAs. It is a contract status that once achieved is never lost.
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That's not true. Devante Smith-Pelly is a perfect example. Anaheim didn't qualify him after his ELC and he became a UFA. After two trades, he ended up in New Jersey and was re-signed as an RFA. Then, he was bought out by the Devils last year and became a UFA again, signing with the Caps. Once again, he would have been an RFA if Washington had qualified him this year.
Czarnik will be a UFA at the end of this contract because he will be 27 when it ends.