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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]

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.

I think we can get like a 2nd and maybe more. GMs have some stupid obsession with character

 

[kcunac]

Based on the figures in the OP re salary, the following 21 man roster is cap compliant by buying out Mikheyev and trading Hronek for more than we got him for:

Stamkos - Pettersson - PodK
Suter - Miller - Boeser
Joshua - Blueger - Garland
Hog - Aman - PDG

Hughes - Roy
Soucy- Tanev
Zadarov - Myers
Juulsen

Demko
Silovs (925K)

 

[Peter Griffin]

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.

He’d give them a lot of flexibility to run a 3C deep lineup when needed but I agree, paying him what he’ll command, you have to pencil him in for a top 6 role, whether that means Petey playing with him or Miller.

 

[Bourne Endeavor]

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.

We can afford to get a top six winger without moving Garland, especially if several of our UFAs price themselves out. Our strength this season was depth throughout the lines. Yes, we overextended that depth but that's more of a Mikheyev problem.

 

[TruGr1t]

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.

I bet you could get a 2nd rounder or equivalent in the summer based on the amount of gushing HNIC did over the guy in the playoffs, but that's splitting hairs.

 

[MS]

I think we can get like a 2nd and maybe more. GMs have some stupid obsession with character

I'd be shocked. And I doubt his reputation has changed that greatly around the league. He's still a small skill player with no PK utility whose production dropped significantly in the playoffs.

 

[Soups On]

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.

If the team wants to compete they'll need another legit top 6 winger and bank on younger players taking on a more meaningful role. Guys like Raty, Podkolzin, Lek, and/or Bains will need to make a big push. Need a high end top 6 forward or the team is in trouble.

 

[Bleach Clean]

We can afford to get a top six winger without moving Garland, especially if several of our UFAs price themselves out. Our strength this season was depth throughout the lines. Yes, we overextended that depth but that's more of a Mikheyev problem.

VAN needs 2 top6 wingers, maybe more. They have Boeser and Garland doesn't play in the top6.

 

[crazychimp]

Am i the only one who thinks Garland should be playing with Petey?

 

[SeawaterOnIce]

Based on the figures in the OP re salary, the following 21 man roster is cap compliant by buying out Mikheyev and trading Hronek for more than we got him for:

Stamkos - Pettersson - PodK
Suter - Miller - Boeser
Joshua - Blueger - Garland
Hog - Aman - PDG

Hughes - Roy
Soucy- Tanev
Zadarov - Myers
Juulsen

Demko
Silovs (925K)

2024 Stamkos is 2019 Phil Kessel right now. He would be a 45 point powerplay specialist away from Tampa.

 

[arttk]

Am i the only one who thinks Garland should be playing with Petey?

Yes you are the only one

 

[mathonwy]

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.

This is a ridiculous take.

 

[Bourne Endeavor]

VAN needs 2 top6 wingers, maybe more. They have Boeser and Garland doesn't play in the top6.

Which we can still afford, assuming only two of Joshua, Zadorov, Lindholm and Hronek are coming back. Even bringing back three of them is still plausible if they take less to stay here.

Trading Garland just creates a massive hole in our third line, especially if we lose Joshua too. Now we're essentially Edmonton, relying on two lines. Except we don't have the two best players in the world to compensate for that lack of depth.

 

[Bleach Clean]

Which we can still afford, assuming only two of Joshua, Zadorov, Lindholm and Hronek are coming back. Even bringing back three of them is still plausible if they take less to stay here.

Trading Garland just creates a massive hole in our third line, especially if we lose Joshua too. Now we're essentially Edmonton, relying on two lines. Except we don't have the two best players in the world to compensate for that lack of depth.

Really? Can you provide a lineup where Lindholm and Hronek are re-signed and they have enough money for 2 quality top6 forwards? I'd like to see it.

Aside from Lotto, this team does not have a legitimate top6 line, currently. (Not an entire line)

 

[mathonwy]

Garland was literally one of the last skaters with any juice left in game 7 and scored a goal but he’s only worth a 3rd. That’s such utter bullcrap it’s not even funny.

 

[Bleach Clean]

This is a ridiculous take.

I agree with MS here. Teams overpay for big players, or players that fit a traditional archetype, Garland is as non-standard as it gets.

 

[crazychimp]

Yes you are the only one

Mikheyev it is then.

 

[arttk]

Mikheyev it is then.

This sounds like a threat

 

[Nuckles]

Not entirely surprising after some of the scoring woes this post-season, the Canucks are rumored to be looking to add a scoring top 6 forward this off-season.

What we're hearing about the Canucks' offseason priorities

The Canucks will have a very different look when training camp opens in the fall. What are management's top priorities this offseason?

www.nytimes.com

At a high level, team sources indicate that the Canucks’ offseason goals are to add some dynamic scoring punch at the top of the lineup, reconstruct the defence corps given the probability of multiple departures in free agency, and maintain some of the size advantage that was so crucial to the well-defined identity this team carved out last season.
...
Regardless of which pending free agents the Canucks are able to keep, identifying another dynamic, creative offensive forward is viewed as an essential part of what a successful Canucks offseason could look like.
...
There aren’t many options available in unrestricted free agency, so this won’t necessarily be straightforward. Based on what we’re hearing, Canucks hockey operations will be aggressive in seeking to add a top-six forward this summer who can contribute to generating shots and goals.

 

[kcunac]

2024 Stamkos is 2019 Phil Kessel right now. He would be a 45 point powerplay specialist away from Tampa.

I didn’t realize he had regressed so much. Guenztel would be better

 

[bandwagonesque]

If the team wants to compete they'll need another legit top 6 winger and bank on younger players taking on a more meaningful role. Guys like Raty, Podkolzin, Lek, and/or Bains will need to make a big push. Need a high end top 6 forward or the team is in trouble.

I don't see how they can add a top-6 forward without massive roster change. Rutherford could definitely do it, though. I don't think the bottom 6 is improving much from within. I've seen no improvement from Podkolzin for two years.

 

[Wry n Ginger]

I think next year will be a bit of a regression year for the Canucks with the eye on the 25/26 season. The Canucks over-performed this year, I think most can agree to that.

-The young guns and farm team are not ready to be the "next man up" that the main team needs yet. The guys with potential really shouldn't be expected to add to the main team next year.
-JR and Alvin stated pretty much on day 1 that the youth need more time to percolate in the minors.
-The Sedins, when asked about how to build a Stanley Cup contender said "you need players out-performing their contracts".

With the team performing so well this year, Rutherford "took his shot" with the Lindholm trade because that's what he does. Balls out management style at it's best but with a plan. Love it. They brought in Zadorov because he was cheap and they might want to sign him long term. Great idea...but him along with most of the other guys they took a shot at all played better than expectations and now might be looking at contracts the Canucks don't want to be burdened with...lol.

The Rutherford/Alvin plan worked too damned well! But it was a fun ride.

 

[arttk]

I think next year will be a bit of a regression year for the Canucks with the eye on the 25/26 season. The Canucks over-performed this year, I think most can agree to that.

-The young guns and farm team are not ready to be the "next man up" that the main team needs yet. The guys with potential really shouldn't be expected to add to the main team next year.
-JR and Alvin stated pretty much on day 1 that the youth need more time to percolate in the minors.
-The Sedins, when asked about how to build a Stanley Cup contender said "you need players out-performing their contracts".

With the team performing so well this year, Rutherford "took his shot" with the Lindholm trade because that's what he does. Balls out management style at it's best but with a plan. Love it. They brought in Zadorov because he was cheap and they might want to sign him long term. Great idea...but him along with most of the other guys they took a shot at all played better than expectations and now might be looking at contracts the Canucks don't want to be burdened with...lol.

The Rutherford/Alvin plan worked too damned well! But it was a fun ride.

Let’s wait till Sept

 

[TruGr1t]

These don't actually look that bad. That Hronek 3-year would be awesome, but no way he signs that.

 

[Luck 6]

These don't actually look that bad. That Hronek 3-year would be awesome, but no way he signs that.

He might… Gets him to UFA at age 29, ready to sign another 7 year deal at a higher cap hit. The rest all look reasonable.

I’m not sure why Lafferty is at 2.3mil, that’s a bit ridiculous.