{"id":862198,"date":"2026-08-18T06:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T06:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/862198\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T06:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T06:14:08","slug":"list-of-2026-unrestricted-free-agents-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/862198\/","title":{"rendered":"List Of 2026 Unrestricted Free Agents \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u2019s list of UFAs isn\u2019t a total waste by any means like some have claimed. The top players available (at the moment), such as Alex Tuch, Mason Marchment, Bobby McMann, Anthony Mantha, Boone Jenner, Erik Haula, and various others offer solid overall depth. This doesn\u2019t even account for talent among defensemen or goalies, proving there\u2019s plenty to admire in this year\u2019s UFA pool.<\/p>\n<p>That said, the RFA and Trade markets do appear more compelling this year IMO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This year\u2019s list of UFAs isn\u2019t a total waste by any means like some have claimed. The top&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[157823,49,48,4247,448,82],"class_list":["post-862198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-2026-free-agency","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-newsstand","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}