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Open Thread: Free Agency Frenzy

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Today is the start of the new league year and officially the beginning of the 2023-24 season. Thus, any free agent is available to sign a new contract and teams will hurriedly fill out their roster before retreating to the cottage for the rest of the summer.

It is an interesting market because of one final year of the flat salary cap with an expected jump of at least four million dollars on the horizon for the next year. Numerous buyouts and non-qualified Restricted Free Agents make a perennial weak Unrestricted Free Agent market at least a little more interesting.