Frolik and Stone are likely better moves after free agency than on draft day.
Teams will be able to look at the UFA market see what is available and see what the prices are. With UFA players are usually looking for term, 1 year of Frolik or Stone may be appealing.
Frolik especially since he has only 1 year at a $4.3M cap hit but only $3M of real money for budget teams.
He had 16 goals and 34 points in 65 GP - good enough for 0.52 PPG.
There are only 14 free agents with better than 0.52 PPG last year:
Panarin
Duchene
Pavelski
Zuccarello
Nyquist
Dzingel
Thornton
Williams
Lee
Connolly
Ferland
Vanek
Chiasson
Johansson
Outside of Vanek/Chiasson I doubt any of those guys are taking 1 year deals for less than $5M dollars.
And then on defense the UFA class just isn't that deep or good. So a team may take a flyer on 1 year of Stone (although i think you may need to retain $1M with him).
Edler (Likely to re-sign in Vancouver)
Gardiner
Myers (Want to keep him in Winnipeg)
Stralman
Kronwall
Gunnarsson
Hainsey
Engelland
Methot
Not really an elite Free Agent class for d-men.
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