Winners, losers, and big takeaways from Day 1 of free agency

NHL
2023-07-02, 05:01
As i'm writing this up, Cap Friendly has us down for 166 signings totalling nearly $650 million in future salary committed during the start of this year's free agent period. That's a lot of contracts, money, and player movement to keep track of. It would be a big ask under regular circumstances, and a near impossible one on a day where Twitter was functionally broken for the masses.
While we continue to sort through all of the news as it trickles in, let's start working through some of the stuff that initially caught my eye at first glance, and the moves that I believe matter. Based on everything that's happened spanning draft week and the first wave of free agency, here's the best, worst, and most interesting of the bunch.
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