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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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[Jerry the great]

No but it's easy to do so.

My numbers show a total of 630.63m in available capspace. On my list there's a total of 351.76m in projections for UFAs and 260.49m in projections for RFAs for a total of 612.25m.

is your list scrubbed to get rid of washed up/injured UFAs that likely won't find work going forward? because when i copied the AFP data into a blank sheet and just did a simple sum of the UFAs it was ~$432.7MM. when i added up functional cap space from your sheet, it was just under $366MM.

 

[Vector]

is your list scrubbed to get rid of washed up/injured UFAs that likely won't find work going forward? because when i copied the AFP data into a blank sheet and just did a simple sum of the UFAs it was ~$432.7MM. when i added up functional cap space from your sheet, it was just under $366MM.

For the most part, yes. Same goes for RFAs as I wanted to only include ones that had a strong chance of making the NHL next season.

 

[Wisp]

Garland is a middle-six winger making almost $5M. He wouldn't fetch much of anything on the trade market.

Garland is a 20 goal scorer, 50 point forward who can drive a line all by himself. He did almost all of his production at even strength. He followed this up with an impressive playoffs, winning battles all over the place, making big plays and scoring big goals. Any question marks around Garland and his size have been answered - he is now an asset with positive value.

He has no trade protection and the cap is going up. He does not have much term left.
You guys are stuck in Benning mode.

This is a whole different world. Lots of teams will be interested in Garland.

 

[arttk]

Garland is a 20 goal scorer, 50 point forward who can drive a line all by himself. He did almost all of his production at even strength. He followed this up with an impressive playoffs, winning battles all over the place, making big plays and scoring big goals. Any question marks around Garland and his size have been answered - he is now an asset with positive value.

He has no trade protection and the cap is going up. He does not have much term left.
You guys are stuck in Benning mode.

This is a whole different world. Lots of teams will be interested in Garland.

Yeah if we trade him it will be because we are getting some prime assets back and they found a way to use that cap differently.

 

[MS]

Garland is a 20 goal scorer, 50 point forward who can drive a line all by himself. He did almost all of his production at even strength. He followed this up with an impressive playoffs, winning battles all over the place, making big plays and scoring big goals. Any question marks around Garland and his size have been answered - he is now an asset with positive value.

He has no trade protection and the cap is going up. He does not have much term left.
You guys are stuck in Benning mode.

This is a whole different world. Lots of teams will be interested in Garland.

They literally couldn't give Garland away in October 2023 after a season where he had 1 less point than he had this year.

I love Garland and what he brought this year (and I don't want to move him), but you aren't getting shit for him in a trade. Like maybe a 3rd rounder or something.

 

[Paulinbc]

media day?

 

[Nucker101]

Makes no sense to trade Garland, his value to the team at his cap hit is greater than his value in the trade market. The guy brought it every night, especially down the stretch and in the playoffs when the games got tougher. He's a keeper, just needs a linemate with size and finishing ability to play with to get the best out of him, Joshua or a Joshua type. We need more 5v5 play drivers up front, not less.

Plus the guy finally appears to love playing here after never really seeming comfortable since the trade.

 

[Petey O]

Makes no sense to trade Garland, his value to the team at his cap hit is greater than his value in the trade market. The guy brought it every night, especially down the stretch and in the playoffs when the games got tougher. He's a keeper, just needs a linemate with size and finishing ability to play with to get the best out of him, Joshua or a Joshua type. We need more 5v5 play drivers up front, not less.

Plus the guy finally appears to love playing here after never really seeming comfortable since the trade.

Yep. Keep him 100%. He is the type of player that elevates his game in the playoffs and when games matter. You don’t trade that.

 

[rypper]

Not ignoring the overall point you are making here, but how old do you think Zadorov is?

And he might need to be reminded that Hughes is the most impactful defender on the team.

 

[Orr4Norris]

The issue with Garland is he’s not a valuable special teams guy, he hasn’t meshed with Miller or Petey, and he’s not going to bring a physical element. He’s a luxury on the 3rd line but can we afford that being so tight to the cap?

Love the player though and not opposed to him staying but if another team offered something decent, he’s definitely a way to save some cap and upgrade the top six.

 

[arttk]

Makes no sense to trade Garland, his value to the team at his cap hit is greater than his value in the trade market. The guy brought it every night, especially down the stretch and in the playoffs when the games got tougher. He's a keeper, just needs a linemate with size and finishing ability to play with to get the best out of him, Joshua or a Joshua type. We need more 5v5 play drivers up front, not less.

Plus the guy finally appears to love playing here after never really seeming comfortable since the trade.

I mean it depends on what we get back and how they change the team. I imagine if we trade Garland it will enable a roster like this.
???? - Miller - Boeser
Hog - Petey - Guentzel/Stamkos
Pod - Lindholm - ????

You are just shifting the money to Petey’s wing and to Lindholm. It opens up a lot of options for the 3rd line (we don’t really need to play Pod there).

 

[thecupismine]

You keep Garland for the same reasons you would keep a high end third line center. It's unusual for a contender to have a winger rather than a center carry your third line (especially one that doesn't kill penalties), but it strangely works here (and there aren't many good alternatives internally/externally at the moment).

Speaking of special teams, I wouldn't be surprised next year if they try to get him to work on his PK skills a bit to get his minutes up.

 

[Nucker101]

I mean it depends on what we get back and how they change the team. I imagine if we trade Garland it will enable a roster like this.
???? - Miller - Boeser
Hog - Petey - Guentzel/Stamkos
Pod - Lindholm - ????

You are just shifting the money to Petey’s wing and to Lindholm. It opens up a lot of options for the 3rd line (we don’t really need to play Pod there).

I really don’t think Lindholm can carry his own line offensively, he’d become a whipping boy here in this scenario

 

[Vector]

media day?

Tomorrow

 

[Vector]

 

[arttk]

They literally couldn't give Garland away in October 2023 after a season where he had 1 less point than he had this year.

I love Garland and what he brought this year (and I don't want to move him), but you aren't getting shit for him in a trade. Like maybe a 3rd rounder or something.

Depends on how GMs see him. GMs have this irrational love for PLAYOFF HEART AND SOUL WARRIOR. He did drive play in a game 7 and score a goal against a supposing cup contender so it should be surprising that impressed some GMs, especially a bunch of GMs are former players.

 

[Flik]

media day?

Tomorrow at 11am Pacific

 

[arttk]

I really don’t think Lindholm can carry his own line offensively, he’d become a whipping boy here in this scenario

It’s a third line and it depends on the wingers.

 

[Nucker101]

It’s a third line and it depends on the wingers.

That’s the thing though, if his wingers are Suter types, you’ll get a very average 3rd line offensively while paying a premium price.

 

[Peter Griffin]

Makes no sense to trade Garland, his value to the team at his cap hit is greater than his value in the trade market. The guy brought it every night, especially down the stretch and in the playoffs when the games got tougher. He's a keeper, just needs a linemate with size and finishing ability to play with to get the best out of him, Joshua or a Joshua type. We need more 5v5 play drivers up front, not less.

Plus the guy finally appears to love playing here after never really seeming comfortable since the trade.

Exactly this. With Garland you basically have a ready made 2nd/3rd line, it’s a no-brainer to keep him unless you’re signing multiple high end players and need his cap space.

 

[MS]

Depends on how GMs see him. GMs have this irrational love for PLAYOFF HEART AND SOUL WARRIOR. He did drive play in a game 7 and score a goal against a supposing cup contender so it should be surprising that impressed some GMs, especially a bunch of GMs are former players.

I think NHL pro scouting is generally very bad and '5 points in 13 games = small guy bad in playoffs' will still win out with lots of teams.

But like I said in my previous post, maybe you could get a 3rd, and that's actually a huge difference from 'couldn't give him away without a large sweetener' which was the case in October-November.

 

[Bourne Endeavor]

The issue with Garland is he’s not a valuable special teams guy, he hasn’t meshed with Miller or Petey, and he’s not going to bring a physical element. He’s a luxury on the 3rd line but can we afford that being so tight to the cap?

Love the player though and not opposed to him staying but if another team offered something decent, he’s definitely a way to save some cap and upgrade the top six.

The thing is... they won't. The best we're likely to get for Garland is a 2nd. He's worth far more to us than the equivalent of throwing a dart at the board and hoping it turns into a decent player 2-4 years later.

 

[Bleach Clean]

The issue with Garland is he’s not a valuable special teams guy, he hasn’t meshed with Miller or Petey, and he’s not going to bring a physical element. He’s a luxury on the 3rd line but can we afford that being so tight to the cap?

Love the player though and not opposed to him staying but if another team offered something decent, he’s definitely a way to save some cap and upgrade the top six.

It's that more than anything. Next year, he has to be a mainstay with Miller or Pettersson. If he is not a top6 solution here. And while you wouldn't get much for him in a trade, and he's worth more to the team than a middling pick + B/C prospect, his money shifting over to a legit top6 solution may be the answer. It just depends upon what they can procure for that money.

The thing is... they won't. The best we're likely to get for Garland is a 2nd. He's worth far more to us than the equivalent of throwing a dart at the board and hoping it turns into a decent player 2-4 years later.\

It wouldn't be the pick that's immediately valuable, it would be the cap space to get a legitimate top6 fix that is valuable.

But if he's a mainstay with Miller or Pettersson next year, that move doesn't need to be made.

 

[bandwagonesque]

I think we're running back largely the same forward group and I would put the chances of Lindholm re-signing at maybe 15 percent. If the bottom 6 is be shored up through trade I've liked Kaliyev for a long time. His skating isn't very good in any way or any direction but he's highly intelligent and should be pretty cheap to acquire.

 

[SelltheTeamFrancesco]

I really don’t think Lindholm can carry his own line offensively, he’d become a whipping boy here in this scenario

I honestly wonder where in the lineup they have him slotted in, when discussing bringing him back. $7+ million for a third line centre does not make sense to me. Do they want Petey playing wing going forward, which would be interesting. I find it weird that he would be (reported) there number one priority in terms of resigning pending unrestricted free agents.