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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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[MarkusNaslund19]

It was noted that EP40 was the last guy off the ice in game 7 and was lingering and saluting the fans.

It may mean nothing, but it is something guys who are not returning sometimes do.

If we need a young center we could always get Lafreniere, right?

 

[dbaz]

i think lindholm is the main one they will try to keep. i also expect myers back at a lower cost.

hughes raised hroneks value, if 8mil is the cost you move on, the return is put towards a rhd/top 6 target

guessing van and chi hook up for another cap dump trade. probably a 2nd and mik for a 5th. poolmans ltir to someone like toronto or lightning

toffoli, guentzel, tanev, dillon are some of the obvious ufa targets

 

[Flik]

I’m fine moving on from hoggy if we can get an equal dman for him. He’s not the guy to pair with petey and he can’t play top line, and the 3 line hopefully stays the same…means he’s odd man out for some trade bait imo

But he's so cap efficient and has lots of room to grow. I dunno, I think we have to keep him and hope he can take additional steps forward in his growth as a player.

 

[Wisp]

If we need a young center we could always get Lafreniere, right?

He's a winger

 

[crazychimp]

Watching this channel about our games really shows our weaknesses.

 

[Peen]

Sat was saying on the radio to not expect a lot of names back. They're going to be ruthless. Music to my ears.

There’s no way they can improve the team if they try to retain everyone. I’d try for Lindholm because the 3 Cs down the middle thing was very big for this team. I love Blueger. And I like Joshua.

I also think they should retain Hronek. At the end of the day, even when his production dried up, that pairing still churned good results on both ends.

But I say all that and if they were to bring those four guys back, even with 10% discounts relative to what they’d likely re-sign for & a Mikheyev trade, they would have to go very economical on that top six forward and second pair RD… and I don’t think they should do that. Myers-Soucy got hemmed so they should improve that spot and Pettersson deserves to play with a bonafide scorer.

They’re going to have to fill holes with league minimum players so that Bains, Podkolzin, Raty, Sasson contingent… need to have a good summer. They’ve gassed up those guys. Are they your next Joshua? They might just need one of them to be that already.

 

[B-rock]

If they aren't re-signing Joshua I could see them trading Garland.

Why? Garland is the engine of any line he plays on. He doesn’t need Joshua.

What sense does it make to trade one of the guys that demonstrated he’s a gamer in the playoffs?

 

[MarkusNaslund19]

He's a winger

That's the joke.

That particular poster went on and on that Lafreniere was a center and when it was proven that it wasn't true, he posted a picture that said "Lafrenier (center) looks on as the goalie makes a save" or something, where it was saying he was centered in the pic. He tried to use that as evidence that he was correct.

 

[sandwichbird2023]

I think Lindholm and Z will get mega-deals in UFA, especially after their performances in the playoff, they are both going to be overpaid. People focus too much on a small sample size (13 games in the playoff), and forget that for 2 months from the ASG to end of season, there were major questions about Lindholm's play. Z was inconsistent in the regular season, some good mixed with some bad. If both guys can consistently play at their peak level, they may be worth their asks, but that's very unlikely. Lindholm is 29 turning 30, and had been seeing his production decreased for 2 straight season, this isn't the guy you want to give something like $7.5mx8. Z locked into a $6x6 will be a repeat of the Myers $6x6 we just got out of.

The small sample size kind of applies to Joshua, but in reverse. Joshua had a very good season, he brought size, hits, PK and is the only player that can/should fight to stand up for his teammates. We have almost no size and physicality as is. I'm not saying prioritize that over everything, but I do believe all successful teams has a variety of elements. Also don't forget, as much love as Garland is getting now, there was a period after Joshua's injury where Garland was pretty much invisible. He benefit from Joshua as much as the other way around. Together they make up 2/3 of one of the league's best 3rd line.

I obviously hope we can somehow bring Lindholm, Z and Joshua back, but if we do, that pretty much mean another season of crappy wingers for Petey, and Suter as 1LW. Do we really want to see that again?

 

[Vector]

He's a winger

It’s a joke from last season.

 

[sting101]

Lindholm is the big priority. Checks so many boxes and there is no way to replace him if they let him walk that doesn't come with more pain and less of a player unless Reinhart comes home or we somehow get Guentzel
RsC PK TOP6 PP1 bumper that can play with Pettersson

Zadorov and Joshua i hate to say they need to be ruthless as we cant afford to have #5D and LW3s bogging down the roster with big percentages and turning 30 within short order as the OEL pain is coming as are raises to other more important players during the timelines (Hughes Demko Boeser) that they would want to be signed through. We do need size/strength and physicality but it's less important than top4/5 forwards and top3D which we still need to figure out and upgrade somehow

Hronek they have to drive a tough negotiation and use his RFA status to keep him at the table for a fair deal that works. He can play tough but at the end of the day if he goes to arbitration and then goes to UFA and they force him to a 2nd pair and he struggles again in the 2nd half he could stand to lose a lot of money. 6.8 x 4 should be enough to get it done. Gives him a last chance to sign a big deal at 30 as a UFA

Blueger would be nice as it's good to have strength down the middle and his speed and Pking is welcome. Myers also if he'll provide a team friendly deal. The rest are fungible and Silovs replaces DeSmith

 

[arttk]

Utah wouldn't want Hronek they have Durzi and Kesselring and the possibility they move Guenther for almost anything is pretty much zero certainly not for a struggling D that wants 8 million


25goals for 1.1 million he goes nowhere

would be ballsy if they trade away Hog…. I guess it wouldn’t be surprising, his value is high considering he makes 1.1 and just potted 25 goals. If you look deeper, his shoot% and lack in hockey sense is concerning and he might not be able to repeat what he just did.

 

[Vector]

Coyotes have zero reason to trade anyone from their roster, RFA or otherwise, when they have 10 2nd round picks and a boat load of capspace.

 

[Bertuzzzi44]

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Hronek’s gone hopefully we get a good haul for him.

 

[arttk]

There’s no way they can improve the team if they try to retain everyone. I’d try for Lindholm because the 3 Cs down the middle thing was very big for this team. I love Blueger. And I like Joshua.

I also think they should retain Hronek. At the end of the day, even when his production dried up, that pairing still churned good results on both ends.

But I say all that and if they were to bring those four guys back, even with 10% discounts relative to what they’d likely re-sign for & a Mikheyev trade, they would have to go very economical on that top six forward and second pair RD… and I don’t think they should do that. Myers-Soucy got hemmed so they should improve that spot and Pettersson deserves to play with a bonafide scorer.

They’re going to have to fill holes with league minimum players so that Bains, Podkolzin, Raty, Sasson contingent… need to have a good summer. They’ve gassed up those guys. Are they your next Joshua? They might just need one of them to be that already.

I think we need to build our D in a way that works against the aggressive and speedy 2 man forecheck that Preds and the Oilers used against us. Bringing back both Z and Myers wouldn’t solve that.

 

[Burke's Evil Spirit]

I absolutely am shopping Hog this summer. If he can be the centrepiece to a deal to bring in a high-end contributor, whether a Hronek replacement or winger for Petey, I do that deal all day every day.

 

[Canucks LB]

Hronek’s gone hopefully we get a good haul for him.

I don't think we can even get a 1st for him honestly

 

[rea]

I don't think we can even get a 1st for him honestly

Yea def won't get back the value we paid to get him. Every team knows the situation. Teams best bet may just be to take him to arbitration and try to sell him at tdl, but management would really have to buy into the idea no matter where we are in standings, he'd have to go. Can't keep losing assets for nothing

 

[Bertuzzzi44]

I don't think we can even get a 1st for him honestly

A prime age puck moving right hand defenceman that can QB a power play should be able to fetch us a 1st.

But teams will know we’re up against the Cap and not negotiating from a position of strength, however if we can get at least 2 teams bidding for the player than we’ll get a 1st.

 

[Peen]

A prime age right hand puck moving defenceman that can QB a poweplay should be able to fetch us a first.

Where is this guy who can QB a PP

 

[Bertuzzzi44]

Where is this guy who can QB a PP

Lol that’s the way we’re marketing him

 

[Burke's Evil Spirit]

A prime age puck moving right hand defenceman that can QB a power play should be able to fetch us a 1st.

I agree! But we're talking about Filip Hronek

 

[Peen]

every time i play around with this, there's no way they can bring back both of lindholm and hronek.

there's also no way they can bring back joshua and afford a true top six winger

and that's assuming they dump mikheyev

 

[Burke's Evil Spirit]

I wonder if Mikheyev will be the "salary going out" cap dump in a larger deal for an impact player. Eg, Hoglander + 1st + Mikheyev for _____. If it's a non-contender, could see them valuing Mikheyev.

 

[Bleach Clean]

Early thoughts on where to go from here:

1. Hronek - They are pot committed to this player imo, even at $8m AAV/8 years. If you're going to chase mid-aged RHDs due to positional value, it makes sense to retain them even at an inflated contract.

2. Lindholm - I've gone back and forth on this one, but ultimately, I do NOT want him re-signed. Even at $7m AAV (bargain for him). Why? Because a winger would provide better relative return and he will take the better wingers away from Pettersson given Tocchet's tendencies. He is a luxury.

3. Zadorov - Even at $5m AAV, walk. The fact that he's rumoured to want $6m AAV saves this team from making a hard decision.

4. Joshua - Re-sign at $3m AAV or walk. Every dollar spent on 3rd line term is a dollar taken away from the top6/top4Dmen.

5. Blueger - If he takes his current AAV on term, re-sign. Else, walk. Great try, but a 4C is a 4C.

6. Myers - Even at a discount in the mid $3m~ range, walk. They have to get a top legit top4 RHD and his money should go toward that solution.

7. Cole - Walk.

8. Friedman - Walk.

9. Juulsen - He's not a UFA/RFA, but I would move him. He's too unreliable.

10. DeSmith - Walk.

11. Silovs - Obvious.

12. Lafferty - Walk.

13. PDG - They probably won't trade him, but they should. They can better his depth slot.

14. Mikheyev - Has to be moved.


Last note: They need to figure out the Garland/Boeser pairing with Miller/Pettersson. If Pettersson-Garland isn't an ongoing concern, then Miller-Garland should be. This way, Pettersson gets Boeser. Given his salary, Garland has to be in the top6 imo.