Beyond all the hubbub surrounding the upcoming Seattle expansion draft on July 21 and the hooplah regarding the NHL Entry draft just two days later, teams are already preparing their gameplans regarding restricted free agency - whom to tender qualifying offers, which players will opt for arbitration, and which ones are worth letting walk into unrestricted free agency.
Friday, The Athletic’s Michael Russo tweeted that the Minnesota Wild are already making their plans regarding RFAs, and that means bad news for Dmitry Solokov. According to Russo, they’ve already made their decision to decline to tender their 2016 seventh-round selection a qualifying offer.