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Well, here are my Top 10 UFA's coming into July 1st. We will be keeping a special eye on them here, and this is one part of our Free Agent Tracker. You can come here and look at the most interesting UFA's and see who they have signed with. We will also have another section, where you can look at all the UFA's, and see who they have signed with.

1.Ilya Kovalchuk, LW (NJ)
2009-10 Cap Hit: $6.389 million | Age: 27


Teams Rumored Interested:
Signs with NJ


2.Sergei Gonchar, D (PIT)
2009-10 Cap Hit: $5 million | Age: 36


Teams Rumored Interested:
Signs with Ottawa, 3-year $16.5M


3.Evgeni Nabokov, G (SJ)
2009-10 Cap Hit: $5.375 million | Age: 34


Teams Rumored Interested
Signs in KHL


4.Anton Volchenkov, D (OTT)
2009-10 Cap Hit: $2.5 million | Age: 28


Teams Rumored Intersted:
Signs with NJ


5.Matthew Lombardi, C/LW (PHX)
2009-10 Cap Hit: $1.816 million | Age: 28


Teams Rumored Interested:
Signs with NSH


6.Zbynek Michalek, D (PHX)
2009-10 Cap Hit: $1.25 million | Age: 27


Teams Rumored Interested:
Signs 5-year deal with Pittsburgh worth $20M


7,Ray Whitney, LW (CAR)
2009-10 Cap Hit: $3.5 million | Age: 37


Teams Rumored Interested:
Signs with PHX


8.Dan Hamhuis, D (NAS/PHI/PIT)
2009-10 Cap Hit: $2 million | Age: 27


Teams Rumored Interested:
Signs with VAN


9.Maxim Afinogenov, RW (ATL)
2009-10 Cap Hit: $800,000 | Age: 30


Teams Rumored Interested:
ATL,NJ,WSH


10.Olli Jokinen, C/RW (NYR)
2009-10 Cap Hit: $5.25 million | Age: 31


Teams Rumored Interested:
Signs with Calgary