Toronto Maple Leafs forward Mitch Marner was the first star RFA domino to fall, but many are still standing.

Patrik Laine and Kyle Connor remain unsigned, Brock Boeser is still without a deal in Vancouver, and on a smaller scale, a feisty skilled forward in Philadelphia has also yet to put pen to paper.

We’re talking of course about that Travis Konecny character.

The 24th overall pick of the 2015 draft, Konecny has progressed in each of his first three seasons, scoring 28 points as a rookie, 47 as a sophomore and 49 most recently in his third campaign. Per NBC Philadelphia Sports’ Jordan Hall, Konecny is seeking a long-term deal but his team has not been seeing eye-to-to with Chuck Fletcher and Flyers management. The 22-year-old was consequently absent to kick off Flyers training camp on Friday and new head coach Alain Vigneault had a thing or two to say about it:

 

Well that wasn’t cryptic…

Vigneault elaborated on his “disappointment” over the situation.

The following is an excerpt from NBC Sports Philadelphia:

"I'm very disappointed that T.K. is not here," Alain Vigneault said after his first practice leading the Flyers. "It's the start of a new era, a new group, I felt that it was very important for everybody to be here.

"With my time in the NHL, my experience, anybody that falls behind — whether it's injury or in T.K.'s situation not coming to camp — usually it takes them a little bit of time to get back at it, especially at this time with a new coaching staff and new way of doing things.

"It's unfortunate, but I'm going to work with the players that are here and going to work extremely hard with those players."

Fletcher also added that his team his flexible but the two sides “can’t seem to get the same language on this one.”

The following is an excerpt from NBC Sports Philadelphia:

"I honestly don't know what to say," Fletcher said. "I've been doing this 25 years, I think we go about it the right way, but we just can't seem to get to the same language on this one.

"Still have a ways to go. I don't really know how to characterize it, both sides are trying. It's been a little quiet recently, so we'll look to find a solution that will break the impasse."

Are the sides differing on years or money?

"Both," Fletcher said. "They have some specific demands with respect to term. We're trying to work with them in that regard. We're a little more flexible, I think we would look at a two- or three-year deal or a longer-term deal, and they prefer a longer-term deal right now, so certainly that makes it a little bit more difficult when you narrow the scope of length of term you're negotiating on. We'll continue to work at it."

 

With just over two weeks until puck-drop, the clock is ticking. The Flyers have $6,667,421 in cap space to work with for the upcoming season.

(H/T Jordan Hall)