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Here’s my spreadsheet for upcoming UFAs, each team’s cap situation, and a trade tracker. I update the spreadsheet daily. I use CapFriendly to create this list and AFP Analytics for the contract projections.

Edit: Spreadsheet has been updated with AFP's latest projections and I added a new section for RFAs.

Spoiler: UFAs By Position

Top-6 Forwards
Sam Reinhart	RW	28	8y/10.25m
Jake Guentzel	W	29	6y/7.94m
Steven Stamkos	LW/C	34	3y/6.30m
Jonathan Marchessault	W	33	3y/6.25m
Joe Pavelski	RW	39	1y/3.94m
Matt Duchene	RW/C	33	3y/6.46m
Sean Monahan	FW	29	3y/2.87m
Tyler Toffoli	W	32	5y/6.53m
Jonathan Drouin	W	29	4y/4.46m
Teuvo Teravainen	W	29	5y/6.13m
Vladimir Tarasenko	RW	32	3y/5.64m
Adam Henrique	LW/C	34	2y/4.60m
Chandler Stephenson	C/LW	30	5y/5.77m
Max Domi	C/RW	29	3y/4.17m
Patrick Kane	RW	35	2y/5.51m
Elias Lindholm	C/RW	29	7y/8.04m
Anthony Mantha	W	29	3y/4.40m
Daniel Sprong	W	27	3y/3.89m
Jake DeBrusk	W	27	5y/5.92m
David Perron	W	36	2y/2.80m
Tyler Bertuzzi	W	29	5y/6.00m
Anthony Duclair	W	28	3y/3.22m
Jason Zucker	W	32	3y/5.46m
Jack Roslovic	C/RW	27	3y/3.11m
Max Pacioretty	LW	35
Alexander Barabanov	W	30	3y/3.03m

Top-4 Defecemen
Shayne Gostisbehere	LD/RD	31	3y/4.38m
Brady Skjei	LD	30	6y/7.39m
Noah Hanifin	LD	27	7y/7.69m
Brandon Montour	RD	30	7y/8.71m
Oliver Ekman-Larsson	LD	32	3y/3.67m
Dylan DeMelo	RD	31	4y/5.07m
Sean Walker	LD/RD	29	4y/4.87m
Matt Roy	RD	29	4y/5.58m
TJ Brodie	LD/RD	34	3y/4.91m
Brenden Dillon	LD	33	2y/3.91m
Alexandre Carrier	RD	27	3y/3.57m
Nikita Zadorov	LD/RD	29	4y/5.10m
Chris Tanev	RD	34	3y/4.68m
Brett Pesce	RD	29	6y/6.72m
Matt Grzelcyk	LD	30	3y/4.07m
Oliver Kylington	LD/RD	27

Bottom-6 Forwards
James van Riemsdyk	W	35	1y/1.50m
Warren Foegele	W	28	4y/3.58m
Stefan Noesen	W	31	2y/3.23m
Danton Heinen	W	28
Tyler Johnson	FW	33
Alexander Wennberg	C	29	4y/4.21m
Jordan Martinook	W	31	2y/2.79m
Dakota Joshua	LW	28	3y/3.00m
Michael Amadio	W	28
Teddy Blueger	C/LW	29	2y/2.56m
Sam Lafferty	FW	29	2y/1.72m
Kiefer Sherwood	W	29
Mike Hoffman	LW	34	1y/1.86m
Tomas Tatar	W	33	1y/2.21m
Kyle Okposo	RW	36	1y/1.96m
Kasperi Kapanen	RW	27
Andrew Cogliano	LW	37
Jakob Silfverberg	W	33	2y/2.78m
Cal Clutterbuck	RW	36
Corey Perry	RW	39
Patrick Maroon	W	36
Yakov Trenin	LW/C	27	3y/3.33m
Dominik Kubalik	W	28	2y/1.34m
Anthony Beauvillier	W	27
Sam Carrick	C/RW	32
Tanner Pearson	LW	31
Zemgus Girgensons	LW/C	30	2y/1.74m
Colin Blackwell	C/RW	31
Brandon Duhaime	W	27
Nick Cousins	LW/C	30
Connor Brown	W	30
Joel Kiviranta	W	28
William Carrier	LW	29	3y/2.68m
Tyler Motte	W	29	3y/2.55m
Samuel Blais	W	28	1y/0.94m
Tyson Jost	C	26

Bottom-Pairing Defencemen
Erik Gustafsson	LD	32	3y/4.99m
Tyler Myers	RD	34	2y/2.67m
Justin Schultz	RD	33	2y/3.81m
Kevin Shattenkirk	RD	35	1y/1.37m
Jalen Chatfield	RD	28	3y/2.77m
Mike Reilly	LD	30	1y/1.24m
Dmitry Kulikov	LD/RD	33
Alec Martinez	LD	36	1y/1.7m
Tyson Barrie	RD	32	2y/3.72m
Jani Hakanpaa	RD	32	2y/2.38m
Vincent Desharnais	RD	28	2y/1.41m
Ian Cole	LD/RD	35	2y/3.09m
Matt Dumba	RD	29	3y/3.73m
Colin Miller	RD	31
Mark Giordano	LD	40	1y/3.11m
Marco Scandella	LD	34
Calvin De Haan	LD/RD	33
Josh Brown	RD	30
Ilya Lyubushkin	RD	30	1y/1.31m
Joel Edmundson	LD/RD	31
Troy Stecher	RD	30
Derek Forbort	LD	32
Erik Johnson	RD	36	1y/1.13m

Forward Depth
Christian Fischer	W	27
Craig Smith	RW	34
Victor Olofsson	W	28
Trevor Lewis	RW/C	37
Justin Bailey	RW	29
Kevin Stenlund	C/RW	27
Jeff Carter	RW/C	39
Ryan Carpenter	RW/C	33
Nicolas Aube-Kubel	RW	28	2y/1.53m
AJ Greer	W	27
Liam O'Brien	W	29
Chris Tierney	C	30
Mattias Janmark	W	31
Sam Gagner	RW/C	34
Brendan Smith	LD/RD	35
Eric Robinson	LW	29
Zach Parise	LW	39
Kevin Labanc	W	28	2y/1.94m
Fredrik Olofsson	C/LW	28
Alex Barre-Boulet	W	27
Matt Martin	W	35
Radim Zohorna	W	28
Pierre-Edouard Bellemare	C/LW	39
Tyler Pitlick	RW	32
Austin Watson	W	32
Tomas Nosek	LW/C	31
Jansen Harkins	LW	27
Rourke Chartier	C	28
Steven Lorentz	FW	28

Defensive Depth
Jack Johnson	LD	37
Vincent Desharnais	RD	28	2y/1.41m
Anthony Deangelo	RD	28	2y/1.80m
Jarred Tinordi	LD	32
Sebastian Aho	LD	28
Dakota Mermis	LD/RD	30
Jacob MacDonald	LD/RD	31
Dennis Gilbert	LD	27
Nikita Zaitsev	RD	32
Nick DeSimone	RD	29
Travis Dermott	LD/RD	27
Caleb Jones	LD/RD	27
Chad Ruhwedel	RD	34
William Lageson	LD/RD	28

Goaltenders
Cam Talbot	G	36	1y/1.89m
Ilya Samsonov	G	27	2y/3.26m
Alex Nedeljkovic	G	28	2y/2.00m
Kaapo Kahkonen	G	27	2y/2.93m
Scott Wedgewood	G	31	2y/1.57m
Casey DeSmith	G	32	1y/2.02m
Anthony Stolarz	G	30	2y/1.91m
James Reimar	G	36
Antti Raanta	G	35	1y/1.31m
David Rittich	G	31
Kevin Lankinen	G	29	1y/1.58m
Laurent Brossoit	G	31	2y/1.95m
Calvin Pickard	G	32
Martin Jones	G	34

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[ManVanFan]

I pretty much expect this because it sounds like everyone is after some mega dollars. I do find it incredibly dangerous to proceed this way following a 109-point season with a barren pool of trade assets and no impact prospects, but I don't think they have much of a choice due to the cap situation. You could quite easily go back to missing the playoffs next season.

Agents every season shoot for the moon for their players. League can't afford to be handing out 4M a year contracts to 35 point forwards. Won't be near enough money to go around.

 

[TruGr1t]

Agents every season shoot for the moon for their players. League can't afford to be handing out 4M a year contracts to 35 point forwards. Won't be near enough money to go around.

Hronek, Zadorov, and Lindholm will get their money. Those are major pieces. Maybe we get Joshua or Blueger on some hometown deal, but that ain't moving the needle. Then you have to go out and bid against the rest of the market to fill holes.

 

[Tact]

I think we have to keep Zadarov and Lindholm. I might be in the minority, but if the asking price is too high on Joshua, I’m ok with moving on. I don’t mind keeping Blueger around at the same price range.

I’d like to keep Hronek, but if his ask remains 8M - then we ship him out.

I think we desperately need to acquire two legit top 6 wingers. We can’t just rely on Boeser - cuz if he goes down like he did, we’re relying on friggen Mikheyev to score on a mini breakaway in game 7.

I still say we acquire high end pieces and make small deals throughout the year to acquire bottom 6 depth.

 

[biturbo19]

I think we have to keep Zadarov and Lindholm. I might be in the minority, but if the asking price is too high on Joshua, I’m ok with moving on. I don’t mind keeping Blueger around at the same price range.

I’d like to keep Hronek, but if his ask remains 8M - then we ship him out.

I think we desperately need to acquire two legit top 6 wingers. We can’t just rely on Boeser - cuz if he goes down like he did, we’re relying on friggen Mikheyev to score on a mini breakaway in game 7.

I still say we acquire high end pieces and make small deals throughout the year to acquire bottom 6 depth.

I just don't see how either comes in at a pricetag we can afford. Unless they take a "hometown discount".



Lindholm is a quality two-way Top-6 Center. RH shot on top if it all. When in recent history has that sort of player not been inundated with insane offers. He's going to hear $7-8M things even if he's not worth that. It's how UFA frenzy works.

Same for Zadorov. He'll hear $5-6M easy from someone on the market. I love the guy...but i don't know that he's worth that.




If these guys all come together and decide that they want to take less to stay together as a team and take another run at it because they've got unfinished business...? Heck yeah. Sign 'em all. But at the end of the day...more often than not...money talks.

 

[TruGr1t]

If these guys all come together and decide that they want to take less to stay together as a team and take another run at it because they've got unfinished business...? Heck yeah. Sign 'em all. But at the end of the day...more often than not...money talks.

They are very clearly not doing this. It's the downside of acquiring pending UFAs in a certain age bracket, a lot of these guys are probably looking at the last major contract they'll sign in the NHL. You will basically just keep having to find the next Zadorov/Lindholm/Hronek in perpetuity until the farm system yields something.

 

[Tact]

I just don't see how either comes in at a pricetag we can afford. Unless they take a "hometown discount".



Lindholm is a quality two-way Top-6 Center. RH shot on top if it all. When in recent history has that sort of player not been inundated with insane offers. He's going to hear $7-8M things even if he's not worth that. It's how UFA frenzy works.

Same for Zadorov. He'll hear $5-6M easy from someone on the market. I love the guy...but i don't know that he's worth that.




If these guys all come together and decide that they want to take less to stay together as a team and take another run at it because they've got unfinished business...? Heck yeah. Sign 'em all. But at the end of the day...more often than not...money talks.

I’m ok with Zadarov at 5-6 and Lindholm at 7

Im not ok with Joshua at 4+. Ditto Hronek, has to be 7 max.

 

[crazychimp]

Can’t believe some wanna trade Garly. Guy has 52 lungs

He’s the puck retriever everyone keeps forgetting about and the one who always has the legs. Reminds you of Burrows just a spark plug. Need more like him not less.

 

[Just A Bit Outside]

Ok thanks.
Yeah I was thinking some of the lower end cheaper guys.
Kaedan Korczak
Boris Katchouk
Arthur Kaliyev
Philip Tomasino
Barrett Hayton
Change of scenery might spark something.

Hayton is a guy I’d target as part of a return package for Hronek from Utah.

 

[biturbo19]

I’m ok with Zadarov at 5-6 and Lindholm at 7

Im not ok with Joshua at 4+. Ditto Hronek, has to be 7 max.

I mean...if you do Zaddy at 5-6 and Lindholm at 7...that's it. You literally can't even ice a full roster from there.

 

[ManVanFan]

Hronek, Zadorov, and Lindholm will get their money. Those are major pieces. Maybe we get Joshua or Blueger on some hometown deal, but that ain't moving the needle. Then you have to go out and bid against the rest of the market to fill holes.

Canucks didn't have Lindholm or Zadorov early on when they were sitting near 1st in the league.

 

[biturbo19]

They are very clearly not doing this. It's the downside of acquiring pending UFAs in a certain age bracket, a lot of these guys are probably looking at the last major contract they'll sign in the NHL. You will basically just keep having to find the next Zadorov/Lindholm/Hronek in perpetuity until the farm system yields something.

Yeah. I'd love for it to be the case...but i also can't even hold it against them. These guys are all looking at their "retirement contract" more or less. Very few people will shave the top off that deal just to stay with a certain team. Especially one that they have...tenuous at best loyalty to.

 

[Baby Pettersson]

Ok when's the season start I can't wait!?

 

[Tact]

I mean...if you do Zaddy at 5-6 and Lindholm at 7...that's it. You literally can't even ice a full roster from there.

Even if Mikheyev is dumped with draft picks? Don’t re-sign Cole, DeSmith, Lafferty.

 

[biturbo19]

Even if Mikheyev is dumped with draft picks? Don’t re-sign Cole, DeSmith, Lafferty.

You still have to replace those guys though. Unless you've got some spare NHLers in your pocket on ELCs...that's going to cost millions.

 

[SeawaterOnIce]

1) You believe we are royally f***ed in 2-3 years and will need to rebuild with an aging Miller on the books...You are probably best overpaying the UFA's and trading all possible future assets off for improvements asap.

2) You think we have prospects that can step up and hope to have a long contention window...then you are probably avoiding the UFA madness.

 

[biturbo19]

Ok when's the season start I can't wait!?

We have to spend several months yelling at each other about who to keep and trade and what the value of each contract is first.


So i think the season is slated to start in 2025. Maybe April or May.

 

[ManVanFan]

Hayton is a guy I’d target as part of a return package for Hronek from Utah.

Considering they do not have a single defender signed for next season.
Kesselring, Hayton plus from Utah
I had mentioned a while back Barron plus from Montreal.
Van rumoured interest in Ristolainen who improved a lot defensively this year. Flyers could add Morgan Frost who could be a defensively responsible winger for Petey for the same amount that Hronek wants.

Other than that, I don't see a lot of places that have parts or pieces Van might want in return for Hronek.

 

[Tact]

You still have to replace those guys though. Unless you've got some spare NHLers in your pocket on ELCs...that's going to cost millions.

I think the Hronek decision needs to be worked out. While we all want to keep Myers around, perhaps he can walk with his 6M price tag as well.

 

[sting101]

I wouldn't want to take on Tanev or Toffoli. I know he's shown incredible durability but eventually he's gonna slow down, right?

And Toffoli looked really slow in the playoffs, I think age has caught up to him. He could be a useful depth guy but I doubt he'll be cheap.

it really depends on term and price. Anything with more than 2 yrs and above 5 is a no go for me. And re: Tanev it would be so Canuck to get him and then watch him fall apart.

 

[biturbo19]

I think the Hronek decision needs to be worked out. While we all want to keep Myers around, perhaps he can walk with his 6M price tag as well.

That $6M from Myers is effectively already gone though. That's the thing. Between the OEL buyout and Petey raise...that money is gone. It doesn't even factor in. We're playing with a different ceiling from there...

 

[Just A Bit Outside]

Considering they do not have a single defender signed for next season.
Kesselring, Hayton plus from Utah
I had mentioned a while back Barron plus from Montreal.
Van rumoured interest in Ristolainen who improved a lot defensively this year. Flyers could add Morgan Frost who could be a defensively responsible winger for Petey for the same amount that Hronek wants.

Other than that, I don't see a lot of places that have parts or pieces Van might want in return for Hronek.

I’d go Guenther + Hayton for Hronek.

Utah does not have any dmen I’d have interest that they would be willing to give up.

 

[biturbo19]

I wouldn't want to take on Tanev or Toffoli. I know he's shown incredible durability but eventually he's gonna slow down, right?

And Toffoli looked really slow in the playoffs, I think age has caught up to him. He could be a useful depth guy but I doubt he'll be cheap.

Toffoli is useless. He's old and slow and literally doesn't do anything other than score goals. Which is just Boeser...but Brock is more handsome and better at it.

 

[arttk]

I want to see PA making trades next week

 

[Tact]

That $6M from Myers is effectively already gone though. That's the thing. Between the OEL buyout and Petey raise...that money is gone. It doesn't even factor in. We're playing with a different ceiling from there...

We have almost 24M cap space. Add Mikheyev and we’re looking at 28.5M. Poolman LTIR adds another 2.5M, hopefully he’s traded too - rumor PA was trying to ditch that contract at the deadline

 

[biturbo19]

Considering they do not have a single defender signed for next season.
Kesselring, Hayton plus from Utah
I had mentioned a while back Barron plus from Montreal.
Van rumoured interest in Ristolainen who improved a lot defensively this year. Flyers could add Morgan Frost who could be a defensively responsible winger for Petey for the same amount that Hronek wants.

Other than that, I don't see a lot of places that have parts or pieces Van might want in return for Hronek.

I definitely think there's a deal to be done with VAN-MTL. They've got all these weird "tweener" defencemen they're trying to fit in. And it just doesn't fit. But they're not bad players.


Justin Barron makes a lot of sense. Not an amazing player and he's got a ton of flaws...but he's a natural RH shot and he's got some obvious puck moving and offensive aptitude. He's also got some size, which is clearly important to the Foote blueline. His lack of intensity and physicality is a bit concerning. They might not like him. But if there's a deal to be made...i'd take a shot on him. He'll be cheap because he's an RFA without a ton of leverage.

We have almost 24M cap space. Add Mikheyev and we’re looking at 28.5M. Poolman LTIR adds another 2.5M, hopefully he’s traded too - rumornbut as PA was trying to ditch that contract at the deadline

It's a total mirage though. There's cap space to retool...but there's barely anybody even signed to get to that number.


The reality is...you need 23 players on the roster most of the year. You can't just go out and spend a fortune on Lindholm and Zadorov and just leave the other roster spots empty. Those still have to have players in them...and the cheapest you're going to get is still near a million bucks in those places.