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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]

55 points in 78 games, most of which were played with the imploding Devils who had worse goaltender than Edmonton does right now. He was one of the few good players on a Jets team that got torn to pieces by the Avs.

Not sure how you'd equate this to being done.

My ideal signings would be Toffoli and either Bertuzzi or Duclair. All of them should be somewhehre in the 4-5M range. Depending how things go with our UFAs (plus Hronek), we should be able to afford both. This does assume we dump Mikheyev with a potential sweeter but I feel that's more than worth the cost.

I'm exlcuding Guentzel here because I just don't think that happens. Would be nice but someone's giving him 9.5-10M. That isn't going to be us.

I don't think Toffoli is done, but he is slowing. The 55 points looks solid, but a lot of it was racked up very early in the season when NJ's PP was on a crazy bender. The production really dried up after that. I would probably look elsewhere. Not because I don't think Toffoli can't contribute, but I think the forward group needs a different element. Toff does a lot of the same (forecheck/OZ cycle offense).

If they gotta go the cheap-ish route, I'd look at Duclair. I think they need a rush playmaker/finisher for some offensive diversity. The higher-end option in this vein is Debrusk, and I think he can also mesh with the Canucks' current style. He would be pricier though.

I get the Bertuzzi fit, but he just looked so....off with Toronto. Like, his hands were awful. Doing the right things in the OZ, but plays died on his stick and he couldn't finish. And he was handed plum opportunities. I fear a Mikeheyev 2.0. scenario.

 

[wetcoast]

Tyler TwoSlowly is done

What him go to Florida and shine eh.

Canucks playoff grades so far:

1. Miller
2. Boeser
3. Garland
4. Lindholm
5. Zadorov
6. Hughes
7. Joshua
8. Silovs
9. Myers
10. Soucy
11. Blueger
12. Suter
13. Pettersson
14. DeSmith
15. Hronek
16. Cole
17. Lafferty
18. PDG
19. Hoglander
20. Juulsen
21. Karlsson
22. Aman
23. Mikheyev

Hronek really isn't helping his RFA status this post season and man the Canucks need to find a way to resign Joshua and Lindholm is making this offseason look really interesting.

 

[timw33]

Does anyone know if you're allowed to bring up playoff production and performance in an arbitration case against a player?

 

[Nuckler]

Kane likely knew about Kyle Beach being assaulted and did absolutely nothing about it. We don't know that he wasn't one of the people making derogatory comments about it (we also don't know that he was).

Not a chance I want him here.

Oh Frick I actually forgot about that, which is my bad. I retract my idea. Vatrano would still be a good fit though

 

[Zaddy91]

Does anyone know if you're allowed to bring up playoff production and performance in an arbitration case against a player?

You think of Hronek too?

 

[bossram]

Does anyone know if you're allowed to bring up playoff production and performance in an arbitration case against a player?

You can bring up pretty much any kind of evidence you want in arbitration.

You think of Hronek too?

1. I've been more negative about Hronek's actual play than anyone here, since the trade. I never actually bought in when he was getting points, because his defensive play was worrying then.

2. The opinion pendulum on him has swung too far the other way now. He is clearly dealing with a somewhat significant injury and it's been speculated he has been for some time.

3. Getting to arbitration is the worst case scenario with Hronek. If they can't agree on a price, he has to be traded.

 

[Mr. Canucklehead]

You can bring up pretty much any kind of evidence you want in arbitration.

1. I've been more negative about Hronek's actual play than anyone here, since the trade. I never actually bought in when he was getting points, because his defensive play was worrying then.

2. The opinion pendulum on him has swung too far the other way now. He is clearly dealing with a somewhat significant injury and it's been speculated he has been for some time.

3. Getting to arbitration is the worst case scenario with Hronek. If they can't agree on a price, he has to be traded.

Yeah, I don't think Hronek is as bad as these playoffs would indicate (and he has been pretty brutal) - but going to arbitration would suck.

Move # 1 that needs to happen for the off-season is jettisoning Mikheyev and his contract to give us the flexibility to work on all our other pieces.

 

[Peter Griffin]

If I’m Allvin I’d be threatening Hronek’s agent that if a long term contract isn’t signed and a 1 year arbitration deal is the outcome he will be dealt and it won’t be to a situation where he’s stapled to the league’s best defender. Given Hronek’s injury history and depending kn where he could end up, he could be looking at a Klingberg-like situation.

Walsh can talk a big game, but Hronek signing a long term extension THIS offseason is his clients best bet.

 

[Vector]

Couple of interesting Jets news coming out today.



Marat Ates doesn't mention the Canucks in the article and Ehlers playoff resume is very poor but I wouldn't be surprised if there's interest.

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And future Canucks 3rd pairing LD Brendan Dillon will not be re-signing with the Jets.

 

[timw33]

Couple of interesting Jets news coming out today.



Marat Ates doesn't mention the Canucks in the article and Ehlers playoff resume is very poor but I wouldn't be surprised if there's interest.

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And future Canucks 3rd pairing LD Brendan Dillon will not be re-signing with the Jets.

Hronek for Ehlers done deal. One year of team control left for each player.

Ehlers strapped to Pettersson's line.

I would be interested in Dillon as the Cole replacement...

 

[JT Milker]

Ehlers always looks fantastic when I watch him but the production doesn’t match the eye test. Odd player.

 

[Frankie Blueberries]

Hronek for Ehlers done deal. One year of team control left for each player.

Ehlers strapped to Pettersson's line.

I would be interested in Dillon as the Cole replacement...

I’d pass on Ehlers. He has an extensive injury history with a lot of games missed and has underwhelming playoff numbers. I don’t think he’d be much of an upgrade over a player like Hoglander, especially when you consider their ages and trajectories.

 

[Nucker101]

Ehlers always looks fantastic when I watch him but the production doesn’t match the eye test. Odd player.

I mean he doesn’t get consistent pp1/L1 time, he’d easily be a PPG+ player if he did.

But the playoff stats are so bad that I’d be scared to acquire him.

 

[DFAC]

I’d pass on Ehlers. He has an extensive injury history with a lot of games missed and has underwhelming playoff numbers. I don’t think he’d be much of an upgrade over a player like Hoglander, especially when you consider their ages and trajectories.

I agree - I don't think Ehlers is the type of player this organization wants to target.

 

[JT Milker]

I mean he doesn’t get consistent pp1/L1 time, he’d easily be a PPG+ player if he did.

But the playoff stats are so bad that I’d be scared to acquire him.

I think the playoff production is mental, same with Marner. I bet if these guys change orgs they’ll perform better.

 

[Vector]

The thing with players like Ehlers and Marner, guys who have holes in their game and on short contracts, is you hope to get them at a cheaper rate than normal and a new voice & organization will help them figure it all out.

 

[Vector]

I tried to look and see if there was any trade comparables for Ehlers. Figured the following parameters were important:

-forward
-one-year remaining before UFA
-similar age
-similar production
-similar cap-hit
-traded in the off-season

I couldn't find anything recent. Went back over 10 years.

Closest I could find was Dave Bolland from the Blackhawks to the Maple Leafs in 13-14 and his career numbers at that point weren't anywhere near Ehlers. He did have a much better playoff resume. His cap hit was significantly lower but probably somewhat comparable (3.375m). His return was a 2nd & two 4ths.

 

[Vector]

Looking at the greater landscape of the NHL offseason, I think there may be a lot of hockey trades this off-season.

Rebuilding:
Ducks
Blackhawks
Flyers
Sharks

Ducks are the only team here that might look to make a splash. Flyers fluked into playoff contention but every move they made was for a rebuild. The question is whether they actually want to sell off their veteran assets.

Reportedly Looking to Improve:
Utah HC
Sabres
Flames
Blue Jackets
Red Wings
Senators

Utah definitely sounds motivated and have all the capspace and draft assets in the world to make moves. Sabres, Red Wings, and Senators all want to emerge from their rebuild. All the Flames moves have been for short term assets. Blue Jackets have spent a lot in each off-season, I don't think they'll suddenly change course.

Buyers:
Bruins
Hurricanes
Avalanche
Stars
Oilers
Panthers
Devils
Rangers
Lightning
Maple Leafs
Canucks
Golden Knights
Jets

A lot of these teams are cash strapped to varying degrees. Hurricanes have a lot of money and roster spots. Lightning, Maple Leafs, and Jets have some very interesting questions to answer about their rosters. Devils really just need a goalie. Canucks have shoved their contention window open and should be aggressive.

Who Knows:
Canadiens
Kings
Wild
Predators
Islanders
Penguins
Kraken
Blues
Capitals

Blues and Canadiens could sell off some pieces but those pieces aren't very attractive anyway (apart from Buchnevich). Islanders and Wild have no capspace. Blake seems to like acquiring RFAs and signing them to extensions so it's possible he does that again but there are pretty big holes on that roster. Kraken have been very conservative. No idea what the Capitals and Pengions plan on doing; both could stand pat or make big changes but rebuilding is not in the cards yet.

 

[vancityluongo]

I tried to look and see if there was any trade comparables for Ehlers. Figured the following parameters were important:

-forward
-one-year remaining before UFA
-similar age
-similar production
-similar cap-hit
-traded in the off-season

I couldn't find anything recent. Went back over 10 years.

Closest I could find was Dave Bolland from the Blackhawks to the Maple Leafs in 13-14 and his career numbers at that point weren't anywhere near Ehlers. He did have a much better playoff resume. His cap hit was significantly lower but probably somewhat comparable (3.375m). His return was a 2nd & two 4ths.

hasn't happened yet, but would imagine ehlers goes for something similar to buchnevich if st louis ends up moving him in the summer.

 

[Vector]

hasn't happened yet, but would imagine ehlers goes for something similar to buchnevich if st louis ends up moving him in the summer.

Wouldn't be surprised either, although I think Buchnevich will go for more. Makes for a very interesting off-season.

 

[Just A Bit Outside]

If you are talking to the Jets regarding Hronek, forget Ehlers, you target Connor even though the Nucks need to add.

Doubtful they move him but that’s the discussion.

Also, I’m all for bringing in Dillon to replace Ian “Canuck Killer” Cole.

 

[Vector]

Found a comparable for an Ehlers trade! Jeff Skinner.

Was on the final year of his contract when traded to the Sabres. Similar up and down career, although with no playoff record. About the same age.

Traded for Cliff Pu (overage OHLer that hadn't played in the AHL yet), 2nd, 3rd, and 6th.

 

[Frankie Blueberries]

If you are talking to the Jets regarding Hronek, forget Ehlers, you target Connor even though the Nucks need to add.

Doubtful they move him but that’s the discussion.

Also, I’m all for bringing in Dillon to replace Ian “Canuck Killer” Cole.

I think Connor is untouchable.

A Hronek trade could be based around Pionk + a 1st round pick prospect like Lambert.

DeMelo is also an intriguing UFA from Winnipeg.

 

[Bobby9]

Jarvis
Kotkaniemi
Nikishin

for

EP40
Hronek


Sign Lindholm, Zad, Dak, Dillon and Teddy

Suter - JT- BB
Hog- Lindholm- Jarvis
Dak - Teddy- Garl
Podz - Kot - UFA

Hughes - ??
Soucy - Zad
Dillon - Nikishin

Top 3 lines are nasty.

 

[Vector]

If I just go by AFP's current contract projects, plug in who the Canucks are rumoured to be interested in, swap Hronek for Ehlers, buyout Mikheyev, and sign Silovs to the same contract Podkolzin got you end up with this:

Joshua - 3y/3m
Tanev - 3y/4.68m
Zadorov - 4y/5.1m
Dillon - 2y/3.91m

Suter-Miller-Boeser
Hoglander-Pettersson-Ehlers
Joshua-XXX-Garland
Bains-Aman-Podkolzin
Di Giuseppe

Hughes-Tanev
Soucy-Zadorov
Dillon-Juulsen
Wolanin/Brisebois

Demko
Silovs

That leaves with 4.77m in space for a 3rd line centre. Could just sign Blueger (2y/2.56) and use the rest to upgrade on Juulsen (Myers, Chatfield or Desharnais) or grab anther bottom-6 option.