Never too Early

[willc7786 0]

With all the insanity of this UFA market, I thought looking at next years might be interesting. Here's a list of the bigger UFA that could be up for grabs next summer

Forwards : Petr Cajanek, Mike Comrie, Pavol Demitra, Jean-Pierre Dumont, Sergei Federov, Ruslan Fedotenko, Dany Heatley, Jochen Hecht, Robert Holik, Tomas Holstrom, Chris Kunitz, Daymond Langkow, David Legwand, Marian Hossa, Patrick Marleau, Brendan Morrison, Ladislav Nagy, Markus Naslund, Owen Nolan, Vaclav Prospal, Mark Recchi, Gary Roberts, Brian Rolston, Steve Rucchin, Martin Rucinsky, Joe Sakic, Miroslav Satan, Cory Stillman, Martin Straka, Mats Sundin, David Vyborny and Doug Weight.

Defensemen : Rob Blake, Dan Boyle, Brian Campbell, Keith Carney, Chris Chelios, Adam Foote, Bret Hedican, Dmitri Kalinin, Niklas Lidstrom, John-Michael Liles, Andreas Lilja, Marek Malik, Paul Mara, Richard Matvichuk, Mattias Norstrom, Teppo Numminen, Wade Redden, Michal Rozsival, Jason Smith, Brad Stuart, Oleg Tverdovsky, Lubomir Visnovsky, Aaron Ward and Glen Wesley.

Goaltenders : Mikka Kiprusoff, Ilya Bryzgalov, Dominik Hasek, Johan Hedberg, Johan Holmqvist, Cristobal Huet, Olaf Kolzig, Chris Osgood and Jose Theodore.

Whats really disgusting is I could see Heatley getting a deal that blows away all the insane contracts of this summer

[Fury of One 6]

Looking at that list I also see a lot of retirees.

[x11x 0]

Good year for d-men, assuming they don't all re-sign.

[BuffaloKing 0]

Good year for d-men, assuming they don't all re-sign.

I have a feeling the majority of the big name defensemen will re-sign or retire. Now how about those RFA's?

[willc7786 0]

Well, I know one person who is next season is Spezza. If the Sens re-sign Heatley, and are dangerously close to the cap, you can guarantee Spezza will get offer sheets at amounts the Sens can't match

[mrusse01 0]

They must be crapping their pants in Calgary...imagine they lose Kipper? That guy personally wins like 20 games a year for them.