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Cheap Free Agents and Where to Find Them: Forwards

If you're an NHL Free Agent in 2015, you're gonna have a bad time.

With the free agent market devoid of star-caliber players, it was expected that this would be a quieter free agent period than in recent years. Even so, NHL General Managers aren't usually known for their restraint, so it was expected that the top targets would get overpaid.

But that didn't happen for a number of reasons, and most players that signed in early July took unusually reasonable contracts.

This happened for a number of reasons. The poor performance of the Canadian dollar mean the salary cap didn't go up very much, leaving some teams (the Wild, for one) a lot less room to maneuver than in previous seasons.