It was always going to be a challenging offseason with Voracek, Couturier, Brayden Schenn, and Raffl all being free-agents. Now that two of them have been signed to extensions, how is it looking?
The 2016-2017 season has been a bit of a dark cloud recently as everyone knew that Jake Voracek and Michael Raffl would be unrestricted free-agents, while Sean Couturier and Brayden Schenn would see restricted free-agency. That summer also includes some additional free agents (Ryan White, Luke Schenn, Yevgeny Medvedev, Radko Gudas, and Brandon Manning) but they are all either replacement level, unknowns, or simply unlikely to be back.