Every year on July 1, the National Hockey League serves up some surprises as its free-agency season gets underway.
In 2015, the landscape was a little different than usual. After the dust had settled, a lack of high-end talent available on the unrestricted free agent market and a shortage of salary-cap space among many of the league's highest-spending teams left us musing less about big contracts and more about other, more unexpected side effects.
Here are the 10 most surprising developments from this year's NHL free-agent frenzy.