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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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[Baby Pettersson]

It was noted that EP40 was the last guy off the ice in game 7 and was lingering and saluting the fans.

It may mean nothing, but it is something guys who are not returning sometimes do.

Didn't he just sign a 8 year contract?!

 

[Baby Pettersson]

I'm also totally fine with "running it back" with mostly the same roster. I believe with a healthy Demko we'd be in round 3. (No disrespect to Silovs I fully expect him and Demko to split games next season).

Additionally I expect Poolmans LTIR cap to be traded so we can start accruing space for next year's deadline.

 

[Bourne Endeavor]

Didn't he just sign a 8 year contract?!

It would never happen nor do I necessarily want it to but I couldn't help mess around on capfriendly. If there remained interest from Carolina, a dealing surrounding Jarvis and Morrow would allow us to not only bring everyone else back easily but sign basically whoever we wanted.

 

[Bertuzzzi44]

Suter-Miller-Boeser
Hoglander-EP-Mantha
Garland-Lindholm-Joshua
PDG-Aman-Podkolzin
Lekkerimaki-Karlsson


Hughes-Tanev
Scandella/Dillon-Hakanpaa
Soucy-Petrovic
Willander


Hronek for Draft picks + prospects
Mikeyev + picks for cap space

Lots of available 4-6 UFA defencemen with good size this year, no point overpaying for Zadorov or Myers.

 

[StickShift]

I really don't see it being that tough to move Mikheyev so long as we're adding a sweetener. Teams like San Jose, Chicago, Utah and such aren't expected to do much of anything with a lot of available cap space. San Jose, in particular, would probably love the draft pick or prospect we toss them.

The bigger issue could be Mikheyev nicking any deals to those teams.

What price do you think that sweetener will be?

 

[Bertuzzzi44]

Biggest Team Need: Puck retrievers who can also be a net front presence. Too many perimeter players on the team just coasting, need more tenacity and bite up front, gritty forwards with that dog in em to get to the dirty areas consistently, forwards that play brutally hard and win board battles, ferocious puck retrievers who don’t let defenders clear the puck or exit the zone and make them pay.

 

[bandwagonesque]

I'm also totally fine with "running it back" with mostly the same roster. I believe with a healthy Demko we'd be in round 3. (No disrespect to Silovs I fully expect him and Demko to split games next season).

Additionally I expect Poolmans LTIR cap to be traded so we can start accruing space for next year's deadline.

Rush chances were probably even, but throughout most of the 2nd round the Canucks could barely get through the neutral zone and the Oilers gained the offensive zone easily and established an effective cycle, and I think the biggest reason was that Hronek and Hughes were banged up and/or unable to adjust to the physicality and pace of the games. I don't think this team would have reached the 3rd round regardless of who was in net.

 

[Vector]

Pettersson is just acknowledging the fans support while he's struggled.

 

[Izzy Goodenough]

Didn't he just sign a 8 year contract?!

Can be traded before July 1st.

Buckle up.

 

[Bourne Endeavor]

What price do you think that sweetener will be?

Hopeful scenario: 2025 2nd or less
Probable scenario: 2025 1st or a prospect

I'd love to simply pay our 3rd and some combination of 5-6th rounders but yeah, that's the very ideal outcome. Either way, I think it's worth paying even a 1st over buying him out.

 

[Mr. Canucklehead]

Some interesting top six forwards out there.

I've long been a fan of Anthony Duclair, and I don't think he'd break the bank to acquire.

 

[arttk]

Some interesting top six forwards out there.

I've long been a fan of Anthony Duclair, and I don't think he'd break the bank to acquire.

Arvidsson would be an interesting bounce back candidate that could be cheap to sign.

 

[Bourne Endeavor]

Some interesting top six forwards out there.

I've long been a fan of Anthony Duclair, and I don't think he'd break the bank to acquire.

I've long thought the say and really wished we targeted him at the deadline. We could very likely sign him to somewhere close to what he's making now and still afford Bertuzzi or Toffoli which would help create actual scoring depth instead of trying to make Suter something he isn't.

 

[Frankie Blueberries]

I hope this management group can pull a rabbit out of its hat again with “money puck” signings to replace UFAs like what they did with Joshua, Blueger, Suter, and Soucy.

I think Hoglander has a decent chance of being traded. He didn’t look like the type of player that can excel in the playoffs, and his value is likely at an all time high.

 

[racerjoe]

Maybe I missed it somewhere, but any news on when the end of the year presser will be.

 

[arttk]

Maybe I missed it somewhere, but any news on when the end of the year presser will be.

Thurs

 

[Mr. Canucklehead]

Maybe I missed it somewhere, but any news on when the end of the year presser will be.

Not yet - I would guess tomorrow or the day after.

 

[ameselare]

Biggest Team Need: Puck retrievers who can also be a net front presence. Too many perimeter players on the team just coasting, need more tenacity and bite up front, gritty forwards with that dog in em to get to the dirty areas consistently, forwards that play brutally hard and win board battles, ferocious puck retrievers who don’t let defenders clear the puck or exit the zone and make them pay.

Yeah us and most other teams in the NHL. Those players don't grow on trees. Hopefully this management group can identify and bring in some diamonds in the rough.

 

[Jovofan]

Maybe I missed it somewhere, but any news on when the end of the year presser will be.

I believe it's on Thursday

 

[Mr. Canucklehead]

I've long thought the say and really wished we targeted him at the deadline. We could very likely sign him to somewhere close to what he's making now and still afford Bertuzzi or Toffoli which would help create actual scoring depth instead of trying to make Suter something he isn't.

Toffoli is a guy I'd be really interested to slot in on Petey's wing. He needs some talent to play with, and they had some chemistry and enjoyed playing together before Benning f***ed that free agency period. I know his wheels aren't great, but the dude scores goals.

 

[Burke's Evil Spirit]

Duclair is definitely an interesting gamble - I bet he sticks around in Tampa Bay though.

Zero interest in Mantha at anything more than like, $1M.

One name that interests me is Tanner Jeannot as a gamble to replace Joshua. Especially if we can get a sweetener to take his cap hit on.

I would be looking to sell high on Hoglander.

Would look at pursuing Dillon, Carrier, Tanev, and Chatfield in free agency to shore up the back end.

Would also keep an eye on qualifying offers to Luke Kunin and Erik Brannstrom.

 

[arttk]

I believe it's on Thursday

Interesting how it’s so quiet today

 

[Burke's Evil Spirit]

Toffoli is a guy I'd be really interested to slot in on Petey's wing. He needs some talent to play with, and they had some chemistry and enjoyed playing together before Benning f***ed that free agency period. I know his wheels aren't great, but the dude scores goals.

Toffoli faded hard over the year, and he's at that danger age. Pass on anything longer than a one-year deal.

 

[thecupismine]

I'll do a more in-depth analysis on team needs later, but for what it's worth I don't think the team dump Mikyahev unless it's cheap to do so or they need the cap space for a bigger fish they know they can secure.

Much more likely they do what they did with Beauvillier, then use that space mid-season to make an acquisition based on what the team needs are then. We're fairly asset-lite at the moment, and without knowing what the UFA market prices are going to be in a rising cap world, the last thing you want to do is dump him and then just get blank space back in return.

 

[Bertuzzzi44]

Wonder if they’re still interested in acquiring Guentzel. Will be interesting to see how they clear up cap space to round out their top 9.