{"id":99908,"date":"2025-08-21T17:57:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T17:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/99908\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T17:57:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T17:57:04","slug":"list-of-2025-signing-rights-expiring-august-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/99908\/","title":{"rendered":"List Of 2025 Signing Rights Expiring August 15"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aug. 21:\u00a0As PuckPedia<\/a> notes, there\u2019s a technicality in college free agency \u2013 the player does not become a UFA automatically; they have to submit paperwork declaring their free agency before their respective team actually loses their signing rights. Only 12 of the players below have actually completed that process. Those are Schmaltz (BOS), Hreschuk (CBJ), Bar (DAL), Campbell (NSH), Reid (NSH), Berg (NYI), Karpa (NYR), Spitserov (SJS), Gagne (TBL), Aucoin (TBL), Fusco (TOR), Kunz (VAN) AND Johnson (WSH). The remainder of the players listed below remain property of their draft teams for now, but are eligible to declare free agency at any time. Of the 12 players who have declared UFA status, only Gagne has signed an NHL contract with a different club<\/a>.<\/p>\n

July 9: Every year on August 15, NHL-drafted prospects coming out of the NCAA with at least four years of experience become free agents if they don\u2019t sign entry-level contracts. That\u2019s the easiest way to distill the lengthy fine print around expiring draft rights regarding collegiate players, which will be phased out in favor of uniform signing windows across leagues in the newly ratified Collective Bargaining Agreement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Regardless, many players from the early 2020s draft classes who chose the college route and have yet to sign ELCs are slated to become UFAs in a few weeks\u2019 time. Here\u2019s the list of this year\u2019s relevant players, courtesy of PuckPedia. An asterisk denotes the player is remaining in the organization for 2025-26 or beyond on an AHL contract. Each player\u2019s initial draft position is noted in parentheses.<\/p>\n

Anaheim Ducks:\u00a0D\u00a0Will Francis<\/a>* (2019, 6-163)<\/p>\n

Boston Bruins: F\u00a0Jake Schmaltz<\/a>* (2019, 7-192), D Ty Gallagher<\/a>* (2021, 7-217)<\/p>\n

Buffalo Sabres:\u00a0F\u00a0Matteo Costantini<\/a>* (2020, 5-131)<\/p>\n

Calgary Flames:\u00a0D\u00a0Jake Boltmann<\/a> (2020, 3-80)<\/p>\n

Carolina Hurricanes:\u00a0none<\/p>\n

Chicago Blackhawks:\u00a0F\u00a0Dominic James<\/a> (2022, 6-173)<\/p>\n

Colorado Avalanche:\u00a0D\u00a0Hank Kempf<\/a>* (2021, 7-208 by NYR)<\/p>\n

Columbus Blue Jackets:\u00a0D\u00a0Aidan Hreschuk<\/a> (2021, 3-94 by CAR)<\/p>\n

Dallas Stars:\u00a0D\u00a0Jack Bar<\/a> (2021, 5-138)<\/p>\n

Detroit Red Wings:\u00a0F\u00a0Red Savage<\/a> (2021, 4-114)<\/p>\n

Edmonton Oilers:\u00a0F Matt Copponi<\/a>* (2023, 7-216), F Joel Maatta<\/a> (2022, 7-222), F Tomas Mazura<\/a> (2019, 6-162), D\u00a0Luca Munzenberger<\/a> (2021, 3-90)<\/p>\n

Florida Panthers:\u00a0none<\/p>\n

Los Angeles Kings:\u00a0F\u00a0Jack Hughes<\/a>* (2022, 2-51), D\u00a0Braden Doyle<\/a> (2019, 6-157)<\/p>\n

Minnesota Wild:\u00a0none<\/p>\n

Montreal Canadiens:\u00a0none<\/p>\n

Nashville Predators:\u00a0F\u00a0Chase McLane<\/a> (2020, 7-209), F\u00a0Isak Walther<\/a> (2019, 6-179), D\u00a0Luke Reid<\/a> (2020, 6-166)<\/p>\n

New Jersey Devils:\u00a0none<\/p>\n

New York Islanders:\u00a0F\u00a0Cameron Berg<\/a>* (2021, 4-125)<\/p>\n

New York Rangers:\u00a0F\u00a0Zakary Karpa<\/a>* (2022, 6-191)<\/p>\n

Ottawa Senators:\u00a0none<\/p>\n

Philadelphia Flyers:\u00a0none<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh Penguins:\u00a0none<\/p>\n

San Jose Sharks:\u00a0F\u00a0Timofey Spitserov<\/a> (2020, 7-210)<\/p>\n

Seattle Kraken:\u00a0F\u00a0Justin Janicke<\/a>* (2021, 7-195)<\/p>\n

St. Louis Blues:\u00a0none<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay Lightning:\u00a0D\u00a0Kyle Aucoin<\/a> (2020, 6-156 by DET), D\u00a0Alex Gagne<\/a> (2021, 6-192)<\/p>\n

Toronto Maple Leafs:\u00a0F\u00a0Wyatt Schingoethe<\/a> (2020, 7-195), D\u00a0John Fusco<\/a> (2020, 7-189), D Mike Koster<\/a> (2019, 5-146)<\/p>\n

Utah Mammoth:\u00a0none<\/p>\n

Vancouver Canucks:\u00a0F\u00a0Jackson Kunz<\/a>* (2020, 4-113)<\/p>\n

Vegas Golden Knights:\u00a0F\u00a0Ryder Donovan<\/a> (2019, 4-110)<\/p>\n

Washington Capitals:\u00a0D\u00a0Brent Johnson<\/a> (2021, 3-80)<\/p>\n

Winnipeg Jets:\u00a0none<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug. 21:\u00a0As PuckPedia notes, there\u2019s a technicality in college free agency \u2013 the player does not become a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,5627,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-99908","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-pro-hockey-rumors-originals","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}