New World Man

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Free Agency

 

For years in the Victory Hockey League, free agency was more of a joke in the off-season schedule more than anything. This season the free agent class seems decent, with fifty-five players available this off-season in the free agent pool. Out of those fifty-five players, thirty-three of those players are over 300 TPE. The biggest concern out there for free agent and VHL franchises is the fact the VHL salary cap hasn’t risen too much over the past decade, something that this season might hinder free agency.

Currently of the twelve VHL teams seven of those twelve currently have cap space, but in all reality only four of those franchises, Riga, D.C, Seattle, and Toronto, have enough space to sign a player over 300 TPE. Of those above mentioned franchises, I don’t think many VHL fans or players would place those teams are strong contenders, but with the league loving the recent “parity”, maybe this is the season an underdog truly rises above and knocks off a legitimate playoff contender.

With 10 players commanding a minimum salary of 3,500,000 and above, one has to really ponder where these free agents will end up once all the dust settles.