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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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[JAK]

Hronek doesn't look hurt, but it's scary how his production has dropped off as the season went on, and he's......pointless in the playoffs.

 

[SopelFanThe3rd]

Hronek doesn't look hurt, but it's scary how his production has dropped off as the season went on, and he's......pointless in the playoffs.

I thought he looked great last night

 

[MS]

Wouldn't that makes Necas a UFA? How does that make sense for the Canes, losing a young, productive forward for nothing?

He's a one-dimensional winger about to get probably $6-7 million in arbitration.

The league doesn't value players like this (note how we couldn't even give Boeser away last year at $6.75 million when he was only scoring 50 points) and if nobody wants to pay Necas that much ... he's a negative value asset.

Which seems strange. And you'd still think that surely someone would trade a 2nd round pick for him or something. But I don't think he carries much value even in the best-case.

 

[JAK]

I thought he looked great last night

Positionally, defensively, yah, he's fine.
Patrick Allvin vs Allan Walsh is something I would buy a ticket for

 

[Mr. Canucklehead]

I thought he looked great last night

His skating was excellent last night - rushed the puck a bunch, got it out of his end, and made some plays. I totally believe the theory that his wrist is messed up, though - he still flubs the puck a lot and is barely shooting it.

But still - last night was his best game of the playoffs, IMO.

 

[Vector]

He's a one-dimensional winger about to get probably $6-7 million in arbitration.

The league doesn't value players like this (note how we couldn't even give Boeser away last year at $6.75 million when he was only scoring 50 points) and if nobody wants to pay Necas that much ... he's a negative value asset.

Which seems strange. And you'd still think that surely someone would trade a 2nd round pick for him or something. But I don't think he carries much value even in the best-case.

I think San Jose or Chicago would trade something of marginal value. It's not like those teams are winning and that would give another offensive weapon for their young centres to play with.

 

[sandwichbird2023]

He's a one-dimensional winger about to get probably $6-7 million in arbitration.

The league doesn't value players like this (note how we couldn't even give Boeser away last year at $6.75 million when he was only scoring 50 points) and if nobody wants to pay Necas that much ... he's a negative value asset.

Which seems strange. And you'd still think that surely someone would trade a 2nd round pick for him or something. But I don't think he carries much value even in the best-case.

That cap hit isn't very out of line with some other one-dimensional winger, specifically Ehlers, but Ehlers still seems to carry some trade value among fans on the trade board. Ehlers is also older, smaller and has a longer history of not producing in the playoff. Heck, some Nucks fans here even show interest in bringing Ehlers in for next season. Cap is going up too so if Necas signs a long term contract at $6m-ish, it probably won't age too badly.

Necas should still be in demand, even at $6m-ish cap hit. I'm sure Pens would love him on a line with Crosby. Teams like Hawks, Sharks, Utah HC, Habs, etc would all be interested in adding a mid-20 top 6 winger with speed. Canes should be able to trade him easily, makes more sense than to just let him walk as an UFA.

 

[Vector]

One move I'm curious if they make, and with Mikheyev likely on the way out I don't see it happening as much as I once did, is if they attached a pick/prospect to move Poolman. Allvin and Rutherford have talked a lot about wanting to get out of LTIR and accrue cap space to make bigger deadline moves. Haven't been able to do that with Poolman on the roster.

 

[Killer Orcas]

I think San Jose or Chicago would trade something of marginal value. It's not like those teams are winning and that would give another offensive weapon for their young centres to play with.

Hawks should be all over him they need to surround Bedard with some talent.

 

[vancityluongo]

I really want Buchnevich on Petey's line next season. If Hronek's ask is too high, would it be a good idea to trade him for Buch straight up? Blues apparently want to dump Faulk, if they are able to do that, I'd bet they would be interested in Hronek.

that move would make a lot of sense imo. hronek would be a great fit for them behind parayko on the right side, and he's the same age as their core guys in thomas, kyrou, neighbours and hofer

buch would be a great winger for petey, but imo he'd be phenomenal with miller and boeser.

 

[Bertuzzzi44]

This team is looking like it could turn into a dynasty! I’m talking multiple Cups! Hughes, Miller, Boeser, Garland, Demko, Pettersson all signed long term. Influx of talented youth Hoglander, Podkolzin, Lekkerimaki, Wilander, Karlsson, Aman, Silovs. Solid support pieces (should resign Zadorov, Lindholm, Joshua). The future seems magical, thinking about multiple Cups coming to Vancouver

 

[Jyrki]

One move I'm curious if they make, and with Mikheyev likely on the way out I don't see it happening as much as I once did, is if they attached a pick/prospect to move Poolman. Allvin and Rutherford have talked a lot about wanting to get out of LTIR and accrue cap space to make bigger deadline moves. Haven't been able to do that with Poolman on the roster.

I don't know if Mik can be moved, 2 years left with a limited NTC for a guy who's bagged 30 points n the regular season and seems to be on the decline. The price to ship out that contract is substantial but has to be done if we hope to retain the highest priority UFAs. So I think Allvin will try to keep Poolman LTIRed, we don't have many assets left to dump bad contracts and most of them will be spent on Mik.

 

[Vector]

I don't know if Mik can be moved, 2 years left with a limited NTC for a guy who's bagged 30 points n the regular season and seems to be on the decline. The price to ship out that contract is substantial but has to be done if we hope to retain the highest priority UFAs. So I think Allvin will try to keep Poolman LTIRed, we don't have many assets left to dump bad contracts and most of them will be spent on Mik.

I'm pretty confident one of those two contracts will be moved. Every off-season they've found a way to get rid of someone that has fallen out of favour (Dickinson, OEL, and Pearson). Poolman has a relatively low caphit and only one season left. His LTIR space is so small that it doesn't help them at all.

Finding a way to get out of Mikheyev's contract without buying him out, which I don't think they'll do, could prove to be challenging.

 

[bossram]

Hronek doesn't look hurt, but it's scary how his production has dropped off as the season went on, and he's......pointless in the playoffs.

As has been discussed in the Hronek thread, he is quite obviously playing hurt and that's been pretty well documented from some time in the regular season.

He can't shoot or handle the puck and his wrist is completely taped up. I don't think he's attempted a single slapshot in the playoffs. Likely wrist injury.

 

[SopelFanThe3rd]

His skating was excellent last night - rushed the puck a bunch, got it out of his end, and made some plays. I totally believe the theory that his wrist is messed up, though - he still flubs the puck a lot and is barely shooting it.

But still - last night was his best game of the playoffs, IMO.

Yeah he was driving play more and more

 

[krutovsdonut]

poolman is $3m cash. the $2.5m ltir cap hit might be something vegas needs depending on their next round of ltir shenanigans. i don't see anyone else playing moneyball these days hard enough to take his contract. tampa has left that chat. arizona has left all chatrooms.

i can't recall if you can buy out an ltir contract. buying out poolman if allowed could work next year to free up $2m but would push $1m of extra caphit into 25/26 when we have a big oel year.

buying out mikhayev bleeds $2.1m into 25/26 and $1.5 the year after which are both big oel hit years. it saves us $3.5m next year but at a big price.

 

[Bourne Endeavor]

I don't know if Mik can be moved, 2 years left with a limited NTC for a guy who's bagged 30 points n the regular season and seems to be on the decline. The price to ship out that contract is substantial but has to be done if we hope to retain the highest priority UFAs. So I think Allvin will try to keep Poolman LTIRed, we don't have many assets left to dump bad contracts and most of them will be spent on Mik.

Depends what we're willing to give up. I can't imagine teams like San Jose or Chicago caring too much about the salary or term so long as they're getting something out of it. He's worth the flyer on a potential rebound season, especially with them able to hold salary.

Question is... what are we willing to pay. I'd honestly go so far as to include a low event prospect like Bains but the hope is no higher than a 2nd round pick.

 

[JAK]

Mikheyev has potential to bounce back next season and then have value the year after.

Not a cap dump at 35 years old or something and be did get 30 pts this season.

 

[JohnHodgson]

He's a one-dimensional winger about to get probably $6-7 million in arbitration.

The league doesn't value players like this (note how we couldn't even give Boeser away last year at $6.75 million when he was only scoring 50 points) and if nobody wants to pay Necas that much ... he's a negative value asset.

Which seems strange. And you'd still think that surely someone would trade a 2nd round pick for him or something. But I don't think he carries much value even in the best-case.

This is asinine.

No way these are real thoughts.

Carolina’s just going to not qualify a player who had 71 points last year at age 25?

Necas isn’t worth a second round pick?

Huh?

 

[JohnHodgson]

I still maintain that I don't think it will cost that much of a sweetener to dump Mikheyev, especially with the cap finally rising. A buyout is a really bad option, given the OEL buyout hit will be jumping up.

Ship him to Chicago or SJ. They need guys to fill roster spots. Tell him he waives his NTC or he's just not going to be playing.

What makes you say this other than homerism??

There’s no proof that dumping someone like Mikhyev wouldn't cost a fortune.

Every NHL transaction to dump salary goes directly against your opinion.

Is this just a gut feeling? Genuinely don’t know where you can arrive at this take.

There’s probably 30 NHL teams trying to dump contracts on San Jose and Chicago lol. That’s not a good cop out.

 

[JohnHodgson]

Realistically I don’t think they have the assets or appetite to dump Mik.

Burning a first round pick to dump Mik is incredibly stupid if he still can bounce back and be an effective top 9 forward who PKs.

Likely outcome of the situation is they keep him to see if he’s better next year and if not, they’ll look to dump him at the deadline or try to find an Anthony Beauvillier situation.

Mikheyev has potential to bounce back next season and then have value the year after.

Not a cap dump at 35 years old or something and be did get 30 pts this season.

He’ll be seen across the league as a cap dump. We won’t be able to trade him unless we are giving assets away or taking an equally bad contract.

 

[bossram]

What makes you say this other than homerism??

There’s no proof that dumping someone like Mikhyev wouldn't cost a fortune.

Every NHL transaction to dump salary goes directly against your opinion.

Is this just a gut feeling? Genuinely don’t know where you can arrive at this take.

There’s probably 30 NHL teams trying to dump contracts on San Jose and Chicago lol. That’s not a good cop out.

Which transactions?

They got off Dickinson. They got off Beauvillier (though no extra term) for free. Hall was supposed to be a cap dump but Boston paid nothing to move him. COL got off RyJo for a 1st, but a large part of that cost was acquiring Walker, so maybe the actual "sweetener" value was a 2nd or 3rd. When TOR had to ditch Mrazek it cost them moving down like 10 slots in the draft.

At this point, I'm not saying they'll get off Mik for free. But it won't be "a fortune".

 

[JAK]

Utah needs $22m just to hit the cap floor,

 

[MS]

This is asinine.

No way these are real thoughts.

Carolina’s just going to not qualify a player who had 71 points last year at age 25?

Necas isn’t worth a second round pick?

Huh?

I think they'll probably make a Bjorkstrand type trade before they don't qualify him. They're pretty clearly moving on.

People will be shocked at how little he goes for. And people still don't understand how the contract is part of the asset. And they also still don't understand how little NHL GMs value soft 2nd line wingers.

 

[Vector]

I think they'll probably make a Bjorkstrand type trade before they don't qualify him. They're pretty clearly moving on.

People will be shocked at how little he goes for. And people still don't understand how the contract is part of the asset. And they also still don't understand how little NHL GMs value soft 2nd line wingers.

He'll probably end up going for a 2nd and another pick given how much the Hurricanes love draft picks and the amount of 2nds that the Utah Hockey Clubs and Blackhawks have. His 71 point season last year is better than anything Bjorkstrand or Boeser were able to accomplish when they were put on the block.