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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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[bossram]

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.

Heinen is chronically underrated. Wanted to add him last offseason. A guy you can throw anywhere in your lineup.

He's had a solid season in Boston though, so likely will be looking for a bigger contract than the 1 year near league minimum he was getting.

Olofsson and Vrana are passes. Too flawed, empty calorie guys.

 

[MS]

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.

He's faster than Suter but yeah I think that's basically the gist of it.

He's a good player but one that will get overpaid in UFA.

He's also in that 'Eriksson/Neal/Brower/Backes' tier of age 30 50-point 2nd liners who *always* seem to turn into lousy-value UFA signings. Guys like Tatar and Killorn again more recently.

 

[crazychimp]

 

[Peen]

Myers owes us considering he was literal dogshit for 3/5 years of the previous deal.

Sign a 2x1. Do it giraffeman

 

[krutovsdonut]

who was the reporter asking hronek that question? i found it interesting he pushed back on the pissiness saying they gave him space all season. seems like he'd had enough of hronek.

 

[Jerry the great]

Myers owes us considering he was literal dogshit for 3/5 years of the previous deal.

Sign a 2x1. Do it giraffeman

At some point you have to consider that this was simply a system and coaching issue. Travis Green was absolute dogshit. As soon as a system was implemented and players were held accountable, Myers looked a lot better.

 

[crazychimp]

who was the reporter asking hronek that question? i found it interesting he pushed back on the pissiness saying they gave him space all season. seems like he'd had enough of hronek.

Sounds like Jeff Paterson to me.

 

[Vector]

who was the reporter asking hronek that question? i found it interesting he pushed back on the pissiness saying they gave him space all season. seems like he'd had enough of hronek.

Sounds like Jeff Patterson to me.

It was Jeff Paterson.

 

[Jerry the great]

Sounds like Jeff Patterson to me.

yup, and he's not a guy the team likes. press privileges were revoked at one point IIRC.

 

[krutovsdonut]

thanks gentlemen

 

[Peen]

Hronek talked to the media once and it was some random 1 minute between intermission segment with Murph during some road game.

And fwiw, Murph made a comment about “not talking to him much” during that segment as well!

 

[MS]

Hronek talked to the media once and it was some random 1 minute between intermission segment with Murph during some road game.

And fwiw, Murph made a comment about “not talking to him much” during that segment as well!

It's pretty well documented how much Hronek hates media stuff and didn't do any for years in Detroit and you don't really want to judge a guy based on how he acts while doing the thing he likes least - especially when we haven't heard anything in either Detroit or Vancouver that his teammates don't like him - but the optics of stuff like this are not good, especially after a poor finish to the season.

 

[Vector]

yup, and he's not a guy the team likes. press privileges were revoked at one point IIRC.

That had nothing to do with him. He's actually extremely well-liked. It was because he was associated with Sekeres & Price and Craig MacEwen has bad beef with them. Once Paterson got a part time gig with The Hockey News he was immediately given his press credentials back. That continued once he joined Canucks Army and they were folded into Frank Seravalli's network.

 

[crazychimp]

I mean I don’t hate that they’ve revoked access for some of these guys. I definitely think this affects the performance for them if dealing with them too much. Look at Toronto as the best example.

 

[Wisp]

You said that he'd be able to fetch the sort of assets required to move Mikheyev, which would be something pretty bloody large. Another poster said 'prime assets'.

That's fair - that does imply something larger. I was speaking quite generally though and if had to go back and clarify I'd probably add they're probably have to add picks or prospects from outside the transaction to move Mikheyev.

 

[CanucksSayEh]

The beard makes it a surprise, but Hronek is only 26. Just a baybay.

 

[bandwagonesque]

I don't really mind this at all. Hronek gave an answer -- that he didn't have an explanation for his poor second half-- and Paterson implied it meant he must be hiding something.

 

[Jerry the great]

That had nothing to do with him. He's actually extremely well-liked. It was because he was associated with Sekeres & Price and Craig MacEwen has bad beef with them. Once Paterson got a part time gig with The Hockey News he was immediately given his press credentials back. That continued once he joined Canucks Army and they were folded into Frank Seravalli's network.

ahhhh okay, thanks for clearing that up.

 

[Vector]

I don't really mind this at all. Hronek gave an answer -- that he didn't have an explanation for his poor second half-- and Paterson implied it meant he must be hiding something.

Because he is hiding an injury and everyone in the media knows it.

 

[krutovsdonut]

kylington played better the moment zadorov left calgary so i would not repeat that.

Because he is hiding an injury and everyone in the media knows it.

dan murphy stepping up. nice.

 

[sting101]

Jeff Paterson is terrible. His voice is brutal, he's almost always negative and poses everything with passive aggressive takes....except for that interview but good god what a horrendous set up for that....Uh derp Filip why did you suck the 2nd half? hurt..no? if you weren't hurt then why? We didnt bug you all year so what's the deal? You owe us?

Not sure what kind of discourse you were expecting from these guy's who have massive pride when you attack their performance in this setting.

Could have just asked the injury question and if he has learned something about himself or had some takeaways from the playoffs and his season where his production fell off.

Might have at least got him talking vs thinking who are you to ask me that you old fat fxxx and being defensive

 

[bandwagonesque]

Because he is hiding an injury and everyone in the media knows it.

Not that Murphy isn't credible, but has anyone else mentioned it or explained what they know?

 

[Just A Bit Outside]

Because he is hiding an injury and everyone in the media knows it.

Understand not wanting to disclose an injury.

But when you've been shit for 5 months and now want $8M/yr, you might want to say something.

 

[krutovsdonut]

Jeff Paterson is terrible. His voice is brutal, he's almost always negative and poses everything with passive aggressive takes....except for that interview but good god what a horrendous set up for that....Uh derp Filip why did you suck the 2nd half? hurt..no? if you weren't hurt then why? We didnt bug you all year so what's the deal? You owe us?

Not sure what kind of discourse you were expecting from these guy's who have massive pride when you attack their performance in this setting.

Could have just asked the injury question and if he was learned something about himself or had some takeaways from the playoffs and his season where his production fell off.

Might have at least got him talking vs thinking who are you to ask me that you old fat fxxx and being defensive

i hate the way sports reporters ask questions but in their defence these guys only get a couple of questions and they have to lead the witness by the nose to make sure they don't misunderstand or duck the questions.

 

[Peter Griffin]

Hronek definitely could’ve been a bit more diplomatic in his response but the way Patterson was questioning him it was almost as if he wanted Hronek to say, “I stunk”. I’m sure he’s not happy with how his play transpired down the stretch and into the postseason but he also probably doesn’t want to blame an injury, especially considering Cole flat out didn’t want to discuss his injury being a hindrance.