Have you been having withdrawal symptoms since the NHL trade deadline came and went? Because we have in our way and the AHL trade deadline passing on Friday afternoon didn't give us the kind of excitement or action we were hoping for, so we're looking ahead. Like really far ahead into the future to the 2025 NHL trade deadline.

We know there is a lot of hockey to play between then and now and there are just about as many transactions to come at the NHL draft in Las Vegas and again with free agency starting on July 1, but what we do know, thanks to CapFriendly.com, is which players will be heading towards free agency come July 1, 2025. We've also got our own ideas about some teams that might be thinking differently by then.

We've picked out a few ideas we're spit-balling already just about a year in advance. We're going to have some fun with this one and if you take anything here for gospel…well, you can do that if you want, we're not your parents. But, let's have a good time and try to line things up with some hair-brained ideas mixed with some logic.