The afternoon of Friday, December 16, brought another one of MLS' lightly-used mechanisms for connecting out-of-contract players with new teams: the Re-Entry Draft.
The Re-Entry Draft is basically a clearing house for players recently released by their MLS teams. At the end of 2016, the New York Red Bulls saw the contracts of four players expire (Damien Perrinelle, Aurelien Collin, Kyle Reynish, and Shaun Wright-Phillips), and declined the contract options of another two - Karl Ouimette and Ronald Zubar.
Not every player is eligible for the Re-Entry Draft.