The 10 Biggest Moves of Free Agency So Far
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Sean McIndoe, Ryan Lambert
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🗓️ 7 July 2026
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Sean and Ryan go through the 10 biggest moves since July 1, and a few that haven't happened yet.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Ryan Lambert from the Perfect Takes a newsletter. |
| 0:14.7 | I'm Sean McAnneux from The Athletic. |
| 0:17.0 | And folks, I don't know if you heard, but there was a relatively minor offer sheet extended in the NHL in the last little while here. |
| 0:26.1 | That's right. |
| 0:26.5 | We're talking Barrett Hayton to, you know, of course. |
| 0:28.8 | We're talking Leo Carlson, 18 million smackaroos for five years to the Philadelphia Flyers. |
| 0:40.5 | This is a big deal. |
| 0:43.8 | It is an extraordinarily big deal. |
| 0:46.5 | The largest A.A.V in league history. |
| 0:50.5 | I saw a lot of people saying this makes them the highest paid, like, single season in |
| 0:54.2 | NHL history. That's not true. The, uh, what was it? The Eisenman offer sheet? |
| 1:01.9 | Which one? Oh, Sergei Fedorov, yeah, back in the, oh, the Fedorov offer sheet. |
| 1:06.4 | There were, this is going to sound crazy to people. Back of the 90s, there was a Sergey Fedorov got offer sheeted. |
| 1:11.9 | And it was basically designed kind of like this one is to be like, |
| 1:15.7 | you can't afford to match this in year one, basically. |
| 1:20.3 | And then the Red Wings matched. |
| 1:22.5 | And they had to pay him $28 million for one season of hockey. |
| 1:26.8 | The beauty of that one was they put a bonus in there where it wasn't new money, but it was like money from the deal all accelerated to year one if whichever team he happened to be on made the conference final. |
| 1:42.7 | Right. |
| 1:43.2 | And this was back when Detroit made the conference final every year, and Carolina did not. |
| 1:47.7 | Yes. |
| 1:48.2 | And I believe the NHL very quickly made new rules so that you could do stuff like that. |
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