Jason Chen of The Hockey News: The free-agent frenzy has calmed leaving some voids for teams like the Arizona Coyotes and Buffalo Sabres among others.
Arizona has one, big problem. They ate so much cap space with all these reclamation contracts yet lost so much. The Coyotes traded their captain away and best scorer in Conor Garland then lost three more defensemen to boot.
Even with Jakob Chychrun, Arizona has gaps galore to fill and yet they still may trade Phil Kessel and Dmitri Jaskin. Their offense ranked 23rd and defense was 22nd before these purges.