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Originally Posted by GioforPM
Technically not UFAs but I guess you’d probably include pending UFA stars or even others who forced a move one way or another, like Stone, Eichel, Tkachuk, etc.
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Fair, though we don't always know who else was/wasn't on their lists. And we did just see Giroux (albeit over the hill) choose a crappy CAD market.
It's probably a bit of a chicken/egg thing with Canadian teams rarely being contenders, but I'd suggest the inability to sign UFAs or land UFA age players via trade (who would have NTCs) should be pretty low on the excuse list. Those moves tend to put your over the top - not just get you to the dance.