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As August nears its end, multiple NHL teams have some significant loose ends left to tie up. For most of those teams, those loose ends involve the restricted free agents that remain without new contracts for the 2016-17 season. The longer these players remain unsigned, the closer these teams get to having to start their season preparations without them, at least temporarily.
While there is still just under a month before NHL training camps open, the timeline to get deals done with key RFAs is even shorter than that.