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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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[arttk]

Low cost bets are fine... if they don't comprise your entire bottom six. Icing mostly kids and journeymen looking to revive their careers is a great way to end up with no depth whatsoever which was our main strength this year.

We wouldn't be improving the team by trading him. I'd much prefer Garland over Bertuzzi if given the choice.

the cap situation isn't as dire.. we could move Hog up to play with Miller or Petey's line. Pay for a 3C that makes like 4M, pay for a LD that makes 3-4M.
Try our best to get rid of Tucker f***ing Poolman and then accumulate cap for addition at TDL.

 

[Peen]

I liked Lindholm a lot and his fit at ES. But paying that guy 7 million is a terrible option when he doesn’t fit as a 1st PP guy (on this team) / hasn’t been effective at evens the last two years

Could Teuvo Teravainen be a top 6 option? Carolina is in cap hell and he could be one that slips through the cracks.

We don’t have assets. They need to lean into free agency to provide solutions.

 

[Burke's Evil Spirit]

Could Teuvo Teravainen be a top 6 option? Carolina is in cap hell and he could be one that slips through the cracks.

A legit first line talent who flies under the radar and won't get the typical money/term that comes with that status. Him at ~$5Mx5 would be a great addition to the team. Another smallish guy, though...

We don’t have assets. They need to lean into free agency to provide solutions.

He is a free agent

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the cap situation isn't as dire.. we could move Hog up to play with Miller or Petey's line. Pay for a 3C that makes like 4M, pay for a LD that makes 3-4M.
Try our best to get rid of Tucker f***ing Poolman and then accumulate cap for addition at TDL.

where did mikheyev go

 

[Jovofan]

We don’t have assets. They need to lean into free agency to provide solutions.

He's a UFA

 

[arttk]

A legit first line talent who flies under the radar and won't get the typical money/term that comes with that status. Him at ~$5Mx5 would be a great addition to the team. Another smallish guy, though...


He is a free agent



where did mikheyev go

somewhere over the rainbow

 

[Peen]

He's a UFA

I am stupid my bad

 

[sting101]

Could Teuvo Teravainen be a top 6 option? Carolina is in cap hell and he could be one that slips through the cracks.

Dont think we need 30yr old playmakers that get boxed out in playoff hockey. Sure if he's a bargain and as a stop gap but his numbers likely get him a payday and stylistically he makes us small and weak. Would be a nice player with Miller and Boeser but probably too expensive.

I liked Lindholm a lot and his fit at ES. But paying that guy 7 million is a terrible option when he doesn’t fit as a 1st PP guy (on this team) / hasn’t been effective at evens the last two years


We don’t have assets. They need to lean into free agency to provide solutions.

Lindholm is a good PP1 option. Good bumper player. The issue is gonna be who carries into the zone for us as Miller is not gonna get faster Pettersson already struggles with it and Boeser is not that guy. That was the thing with Horvat he could wind up and was strong enough to take contact and make the set up play. Once were set up Lindholm is a good option but it's gonna be an issue till either Pettersson gets stronger or we find the right piece.

Teravainen is UFA

 

[sting101]

I like Debrusk he's gonna get overpaid in free agency but at 5.5-6ish and only 27 he could give us enough miles for our window to be worth the expenditure. His speed and LH shot could also work on PP1 and our top6. Of course all the UFAs that are good are gonna be tough pills to swallow for contracts that just the way it goes. We can afford 1 more big ticket and DeBrusk at 6 gives us more of the speed physicality we need and the ability to keep Joshua which in combo would be really good.

Said at the time when i heard that Lindholm was being counter shopped potentially that DeBrusk would make a lot of sense and still feel that way. He's a Tocchet type guy and 2yrs younger

 

[bossram]

Teravainen's offensive impact has really dropped off the last couple seasons. I would in no way classify him as a "first line" player at this point. His playstyle will also frustrate a lot of people really quickly. He's kinda had to pivot into more of a defensive role and usage this season.

 

[krutovsdonut]

my thought is that the team should move off of one of garland/hoglander this summer. offer dependent, obviously.

i don't understand why anyone would be done with garland after he was one of the only top 6 forwards who adapted and got stronger as the playoffs went on. that was development. all i want from garland is for him to work on his shot all summer.

the development of hoglander (and podkholzin) is painfully slow but it is happening. i see neither fetching a return to justify moving them.

I like Debrusk he's gonna get overpaid in free agency but at 5.5-6ish and only 27 he could give us enough miles for our window to be worth the expenditure.

debrusk to me is a classic case of beware of acquiring middle six boston players. absolutely no way i'd deploy that kind of cap in his direction.

 

[Vector]

speaking of philly...

in case you're bored after finish the other multiple lists you're working through, i'd be curious to see what's out there for players between the ages of 27 and 31 with two or more years remaining (expiring 2026 or beyond), with limited trade protection and ideally on re-tool/bubble/mediocre teams - philly, washington, nyi, pittsburgh, ottawa, st. louis, calgary, seattle, minnesota, etc.

essentially teams that would covet 22-25 year old nhl'ers vs prospects, regardless of cap hit (silovs, hronek, hoglander, maybe podkolzin, aman or karlsson being our biggest assets in that category) and would look to acquire them in exchange for "better" players (ie. konecny, scott laughton, morgan frost, michael bunting, oliver bjorkstrand, brandon saad)

i don't think any gm is stupid enough to give up a future forsling for a clendening (ie. brisebois or hirose), and i wouldn't want to part with the prospects needed to get the coveted rfa's like schneider or byfield, if we even have them. elc players are very valued, and for good reason.

but cashing in on the future value of a guy like hoglander to get a player in their prime right now with some cost control could be interesting

been browsing capfriendly so i have some sense of who is out there, but figured you're the list expert!

Will try to remember. Very busy today but it's an interesting thing to look for.

 

[MS]

Teravainen's offensive impact has really dropped off the last couple seasons. I would in no way classify him as a "first line" player at this point. His playstyle will also frustrate a lot of people really quickly. He's kinda had to pivot into more of a defensive role and usage this season.

His ES production over the past few years is basically the same as Jordan Martinook.

Top-unit PP points (from icetime he probably wouldn't get as a Canuck) are what's keeping his production afloat in the 50-point range.

Sign him here and you're probably paying $5-6 million for a smallish 40-point player, albeit one who has a pretty decent all-around game.

 

[Bourne Endeavor]

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the cap situation isn't as dire.. we could move Hog up to play with Miller or Petey's line. Pay for a 3C that makes like 4M, pay for a LD that makes 3-4M.
Try our best to get rid of Tucker f***ing Poolman and then accumulate cap for addition at TDL.

The problem I have here is that third and fourth line is dreadful. They will get eaten alive. You're essentially asking three rookies and a journeyman to have breakout seasons, and if they don't, we're missing the playoffs.

I like Podkolzin but he hasn't shown to be anything more than a depth fourth liner, if even that and we have no idea if Sasson will be capable of cracking the lineup at all. The only rookie who has shown anything thus far is Aman.

I also don't see the point of paying 4M for a center when we could just keep Garland and let Suter center that line. Or re-sign Blueger for even less and also keep Garland. Pod shouldn't be anywhere near the top nine.

 

[Bertuzzzi44]

Guentzel & Mantha. Need better wingers, preferably tenacious puck retrievers with better board play that are a net front presence.

 

[sting101]

Wennberg is a decent alternative to Lindholm. Would be a much better AAV and instead of 30ES points for a few yrs and then pain you could just get 23 from our 3C and some ability to elevate at times and a value deal.

Really dont lose much but a shot and a little physicality special teams faceoffs but if you sign DeBrusk Joshua Blueger and have more money for our D that makes some sense to me than a huge bad contract for a luxury item that may not help what we need mostly for PP1 and beside EP40

Might be able to even afford Zadorov if it makes sense

 

[StrictlyCommercial]

For cheaper filler, I may take a flyer on Daniel Sprong or Danton Heinen.

Reclamation projects could look at Viktor Olofsson or Jacob Vrana.

On D, Carrier would be a great add as a puck mover.

 

[Bertuzzzi44]

Rumours of Myers resigning for 3M x 2-3 on the radio as his wife and him love it in Vancouver and don’t want to be anywhere else. Not sure how I feel about 3 years, 2 years is definitely preferable if that’s what’s agreed upon.

 

[Vector]

Myers for 3m and 2 years is perfectly reasonable. If you're going 3 years I want an even lower cap hit.

 

[TruGr1t]

Rumours of Myers resigning for 3M x 2-3 on the radio as his wife and him love it in Vancouver and don’t want to be anywhere else. Not sure how I feel about this, 2 years is definitely preferable if the Canucks do resign him.

That's a good deal, you're probably not getting a superior replacement for less money in free agency.

 

[Bertuzzzi44]

That's a good deal, you're probably not getting a superior replacement for less money in free agency.

Yeah they said he’s willing to take a little bit less (he better be after raking in 6M for 6 years lol)

 

[arttk]

The problem I have here is that third and fourth line is dreadful. They will get eaten alive. You're essentially asking three rookies and a journeyman to have breakout seasons, and if they don't, we're missing the playoffs.

I like Podkolzin but he hasn't shown to be anything more than a depth fourth liner, if even that and we have no idea if Sasson will be capable of cracking the lineup at all. The only rookie who has shown anything thus far is Aman.

I also don't see the point of paying 4M for a center when we could just keep Garland and let Suter center that line. Or re-sign Blueger for even less and also keep Garland. Pod shouldn't be anywhere near the top nine.

yeah there is 10M left to spend in that roster scenario, if we don't spend that 10M at all then yeah that 3rd line is going to be ass but then again there is 10M left to spend.

Myers for 3m and 2 years is perfectly reasonable. If you're going 3 years I want an even lower cap hit.

squeeze

 

[Bourne Endeavor]

yeah there is 10M left to spend in that roster scenario, if we don't spend that 10M at all then yeah that 3rd line is going to be ass but then again there is 10M left to spend.

10M that will get eaten up by the two top six winger spots and the LD2 you left open. Even moving Hoglander up means we're trying to fill the third line with lesser players or rookies who aren't ready to take that jump.

I just don't see any scenario where Guentzel is a realistic option.

 

[bossram]

His ES production over the past few years is basically the same as Jordan Martinook.

Top-unit PP points (from icetime he probably wouldn't get as a Canuck) are what's keeping his production afloat in the 50-point range.

Sign him here and you're probably paying $5-6 million for a smallish 40-point player, albeit one who has a pretty decent all-around game.

Thanks for adding these points in too. Agreed. For these reasons I would not look at signing him.

Probably end up with another Pius Suter (who I like!) but at 2.5-3X the price.

 

[Just A Bit Outside]

Buffalo has a ton of forwards on the NHL roster and in the pipeline.

I’d look at them to target a youngish forward who could break out with the right opportunity.

I’d also love to take advantage of Ottawa somehow. Tkachuk is likely unattainable but I wonder about Batherson. Wouldn’t be cheap but would be curious of the price tag.

 

[Bertuzzzi44]

suter has been better than blueger

Definitely, Suter’s underrated. Smart player makes the right reads, moves the puck quick and doesn’t hold on to it, good 1 touch passes.