This new, trade impending UFA, sign him before July 1st

Honestly, this has to go. This opens up a loophole which is bad. Teams will start going into trade bidding wars to "acquire the rights" of impending UFA's and sign them before anyone else has the chance. There has to be some sort of tampering going on. No team is going to say, here take my 1st round pick and I MIGHT get to sign player x. It's more like, here is our 1st, player x, 4 years/20 million sound good? Okay done.

As I recall, you can't negotiate a contract with a player on another team before July 1st. It seems to me it is a gray area of the league, and it is a bullshit if you tell me. Why don't we just get rid of free agency all together then?

Now there are rumours of Drury going out west to sign before July 1st.

Now any player can go to their agent, tell the current team, my client will not resign and wants to play for team y. Team z calls team y, says, player x will sign with you now, but may test the waters if you don't act now. Team y says, give us player x and here is a draft pick.