Inside the NHL Agent’s Secret Rankings: Shocking Best and Worst Teams, Jaw-Dropping Contracts, and the Next Commissioner Revealed
It’s hard to get a group of agents to agree that one of the most historically lucrative parts of their business is dying, but even they can’t deny that NHL free agency is about to bottom out this summer.
What will replace it was a matter of debate, but some agents are reading the tea leaves and arguing it’s about star players’ ability to control their destiny before they even become UFAs.
“Free agency’s going to die because there’s just going to be more trades beforehand,” one agent explained. “The Matthew Tkachuk deal changed the landscape where free agency really begins a year or two before. Like, for Brady Tkachuk or Auston Matthews, they’re going to look at what Quinn Hughes did and teams are going to look at what Vancouver did, and teams are going to want to get something for these guys ahead of time and know ahead of time. You’re not going to have the (Mitch) Marner situation where you’re walking a guy right to marketplace anymore.”
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