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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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[ManVanFan]

I think they will either go all out and try to bring in Guentzel or go for the middle of the pack 3-4m-types. There just isn’t any real trade ammo.

Kapanen doesn’t improve the team at all. Doesn’t help the top-6 and I think they’ll try to keep Joshua-Blueger-Garland together so he’d be a 4th liner. With Allvin specifically saying they need to bring in a top-6 forward with speed and creativity, they’ll have to spend a bit in the free agent market.

It would be real hard to bring in a 9M winger into the fold. Canucks don't have value cap hits except for Hoglander. Kapanen I think they bank on improvement through coaching staff.

They have no assets for a trade either anymore. They used them all already. It's internal or free agency.

 

[Slapshot_11]

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[arttk]

I think they will either go all out and try to bring in Guentzel or go for the middle of the pack 3-4m-types. There just isn’t any real trade ammo.

Kapanen doesn’t improve the team at all. Doesn’t help the top-6 and I think they’ll try to keep Joshua-Blueger-Garland together so he’d be a 4th liner. With Allvin specifically saying they need to bring in a top-6 forward with speed and creativity, they’ll have to spend a bit in the free agent market.

Yeah I feel like they will go for Guentzel and then make some bets on fast guys that can facilitate a rush game

 

[Nuckler]

I think they will either go all out and try to bring in Guentzel or go for the middle of the pack 3-4m-types. There just isn’t any real trade ammo.

Kapanen doesn’t improve the team at all. Doesn’t help the top-6 and I think they’ll try to keep Joshua-Blueger-Garland together so he’d be a 4th liner. With Allvin specifically saying they need to bring in a top-6 forward with speed and creativity, they’ll have to spend a bit in the free agent market.

Honestly I think hronek is their best trade bait for a winger for Pete. There are guys like buchnevich, Crouse, necas out there that teams would probably move for him and there are a number of decent dmen on the Ufa market. Add in that Hughes probably doesn't need as high a caliber of player as hronek as his partner... Like would you rather have Hughes-hronek and mid wingers for Pete or Hughes-tanev and higher end wingers. I think bang for buck you get more with better wingers for Pete.

 

[Vector]

Honestly I think hronek is their best trade bait for a winger for Pete. There are guys like buchnevich, Crouse, necas out there that teams would probably move for him and there are a number of decent dmen on the Ufa market. Add in that Hughes probably doesn't need as high a caliber of player as hronek as his partner... Like would you rather have Hughes-hronek and mid wingers for Pete or Hughes-tanev and higher end wingers. I think bang for buck you get more with better wingers for Pete.

Personally, I'd much rather have Hronek than a guy like Necas. I'm much more comfortable spending money on defenceman, though.

 

[Jovofan]

What do you guys think about Jake DeBrusk as a potential target? Would definitely help improve our speed and capable of putting up 20+ goals. Would be a major upgrade to play with Petey and wouldn't have the same pricetag that Guentzel would and is still relatively young.

 

[Nuckler]

Personally, I'd much rather have Hronek than a guy like Necas. I'm much more comfortable spending money on defenceman, though.

I'd prefer the other 2 guys but necas' name is out there

 

[arttk]

What do you guys think about Jake DeBrusk as a potential target? Would definitely help improve our speed and capable of putting up 20+ goals. Would be a major upgrade to play with Petey and wouldn't have the same pricetag that Guentzel would and is still relatively young.

What’s the projected cost?

 

[Jovofan]

What’s the projected cost?

I've looked around a few places and it looks like anywhere between 5-6ish million.

 

[rea]

Any team that is contending and needed a player like hronek, would stay away for the same reasons the canucks would wanna trade. The salary expectations. It's hard to fill a roster with good depth if you're to take on a long term let's say 7.5m-8+ salary, and if they're contenders, they are already probably top heavy.

Any team thats not contending won't give big assets I'd presume either, cuz why would they lose anything when they aren't going to contend and can just go bid for him in the year after? If he's to be traded I wouldn't assume there'd be alot coming back, def will be taking hit on what was paid originally.

 

[arttk]

I've looked around a few places and it looks like anywhere between 5-6ish million.

God no

 

[Vector]

Suter-Miller-Boeser
Hoglander-Pettersson-???
Joshua-Blueger-Garland
Bains-Aman-Podkolzin
PDG/Karlsson

Hughes-Hronek
Soucy-Myers
Dillon-Desharnais
Juulsen

Demko
Silovs

*the following are AFP Projections*

RFAs:
Hronek = 7y/7.5m
Silovs = 2y/1.0m
Karlsson = 1y/0.874m

UFAs:
Joshua = 4y/3.25m
Blueger = 2y/2.17m
Myers = 2y/3.16m
Dillon = 2y/2.86m
Desharnais = 1y/1.11m

If you include Mikheyev in that roster, that leaves the team with 4.5m in cap space (LTIR because of Poolman). If you manage to subtract Mikheyev without taking on any additional cap, you end up with about 9.25m in total space. Guentzel's AFP projection is 7y/9.28m.

Alternately, Zadorov's projection is 5y/5.30m. Remove Desharnais and Mikheyev and that leaves 5m in cap space. AFP has Viktor Arvidsson at 3y/4.75m (I think that's quite high given his age, size, and injury history) but let's use those numbers. Has the Canucks just under the cap.


Suter-Miller-Boeser
Hoglander-Pettersson-Arvidsson
Joshua-Blueger-Garland
Bains-Aman-Podkolzin
PDG/Karlsson

Hughes-Hronek
Soucy-Myers
Dillon-Zadorov
Juulsen

Demko
Silovs

 

[Vector]

What’s the projected cost?

AFP has him at 5y/5.8m.

 

[rea]

I liked sherwoods game watching the preds series, he'd be a nice filler on the 4th

 

[Vector]

I'd prefer the other 2 guys but necas' name is out there

Fundamental problem with moving Hronek is then finding a replacement. The Canucks defence has been atrocious for so long and the minute they have a good mix, I don't think they are willing to move it for more forward help. It's possible to make it work but I'm not convinced it's a route the team will go down unless Hronek forces their hand.

 

[Mr. Canucklehead]

I was just thinking of this as wrinkle to my expectations. I think if they can bring him back for longer term but slightly smaller cap-hit (he expressed disappointment at constantly changing teams and seems like he just wants to settle down with his family) they will do that and get a less impactful forward.

In the playoffs he was frequently on the ice as Hughes partner and with Allvin very plainly stating that he’d like to split up Hughes and Hronek, there’s a willingness to use him in an elevated role in his off-side.

The other thing with Zadorov is if he leaves, who do you fill the top four defense with? Do you just roll with Hughes/Hronek and Soucy/Myers again, and add third pairing guys? Can Myers and Soucy be relied on to stay healthy enough to remain in the top four?

 

[SelltheTeamFrancesco]

Personally, I'd much rather have Hronek than a guy like Necas. I'm much more comfortable spending money on defenceman, though.

Necas is reportedly asking for $6-7 million long term. I think he has good comparables for that $7 million dollar range to be honest. I would much rather pay Hronek $8 million (would not pay him that) than pay Necas $7 million. You can find player like Necas in Ufa they are not hard to find.

 

[Vector]

The other thing with Zadorov is if he leaves, who do you fill the top four defense with? Do you just roll with Hughes/Hronek and Soucy/Myers again, and add third pairing guys? Can Myers and Soucy be relied on to stay healthy enough to remain in the top four?

That’s what they did to start the season.

 

[Jerry the great]

Mayfield contract was for a grand total of $24M. I think Zadorov is targeting at least $30M. But something like $4.25M x 7 for Zads I could see.

I'd probably do that deal at $4.25. he'd be playing the final year at the same age Ian Cole is now. decent chance he's still a productive player.

 

[HairyKneel]

Sanheim is a LHD. See the mistakes that Cole made in the playoffs, the struggle to clear the puck on his offside with his backhand. It's pretty rare a D is better on offside than natural.

Ed Jovanovski

 

[Mr. Canucklehead]

I liked sherwoods game watching the preds series, he'd be a nice filler on the 4th

I circled his name before today, and I wonder about him even more after when Allvin talks about “finding the next Dakota Joshua”. He had a bit of a breakthrough season, his first full one in the NHL, and he hits everything that moves. 27 points in a bottom six role and a goal in the post season - I’d definitely be up for bringing him in.

 

[HairyKneel]

What do you guys think about Jake DeBrusk as a potential target? Would definitely help improve our speed and capable of putting up 20+ goals. Would be a major upgrade to play with Petey and wouldn't have the same pricetag that Guentzel would and is still relatively young.

Not a bad idea. One I hadn’t thought of.

I prioritize the big man ahead of all else. Then Lindy. If numbers don’t work trade their rights, ditto Dakota. No more mongoloid comments saying they ran out of time.

Hronek is a good player but the number needs to start with a 6. This management seems a lot more proactive in solving the issues and moving on. The last boozer couldn’t run a hotdog stand.

 

[rea]

What's the expectations on Pesce? Is he thought to be re-signing w car? Also I don't know how he's performed this past year, but I do rmmbr how much I wanted him a few yrs back. Any fan interest there?

 

[Vector]

What's the expectations on Pesce? Is he thought to be re-signing w car? Also I don't know how he's performed this past year, but I do rmmbr how much I wanted him a few yrs back. Any fan interest there?

He’s taken a pretty step back the last couple seasons. With his recent injury, I’d be terrified of offering him any term.

 

[rea]

He’s taken a pretty step back the last couple seasons. With his recent injury, I’d be terrified of offering him any term.

Gotcha. I just saw on that spreadsheet and should've known there was something up when no one brought him up