Cody Franson had to wait this offseason, wait to see if he would get any offers during free agency, wait to see if anyone would need his services at some point. Good thing he’s been through this before.
“For some reason it’s been one of those things where the contracts kind of had to wait,” he said on Friday. “Even having the successful year in Toronto and getting traded, my first year of free agency I didn’t sign with Buffalo until the end of September. It’s something that’s always happened that way for me, I don’t really know why.