The 2015 NHL draft is now history, but before summer vacation begins for real we still have Wednesday, July 1, for one last major hockey fix. In a salary-cap world in which the best young players are locked up long-term before they can get away for nothing, free-agent day has clearly lost some luster from those pre-cap days.
This year's free-agent crop has no household names available. Only hardcore hockey junkies will have heard of many of the players. There will be no "The Decision" network TV setups for anyone, unless the local access channels of these guys' hometowns decide to really get into it.