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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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[Jerry the great]

Since we're so close w Calgary and they look to be entering their rebuild I wonder what it would take to get Sharngovich from them.

6'2. Shooter. 25 years old. 3.1M dollar cap hit.

Might have to dangle Lekk or Hog for him. I suppose it depends on who you seeing having more success with EP long term.

Lekk - EP - Sharangovich
Hog - EP - Sharangovich

Lekk/Hog and Mik for Sharangovich

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Have you considered how well he'd fit in our system given his (lack of) defensive game and 5v5 play? Tocchet would hate him IMO. He kind of hates Hoglander (who is a better player than Sharngovich) and he was pretty solid at evens this year.

 

[Peen]

Is Mikheyev’s contract buyout friendly or are we best off dealing him? Capfriendly is glitching for me

 

[Vector]

Is Mikheyev’s contract buyout friendly or are we best off dealing him? Capfriendly is glitching for me

24-25: 1.15m
25-26: 2.15m
26-27: 1.55m
27-28: 1.55m

The main problem is this coincides with the OEL buyout and bumps that dead money up to over 6m and 4m for the next several years.

OEL Buyout:

24-25: 2.35m
25-26: 4.77m
26-27: 4.77m
27-28: 2.13m
28-29: 2.13m


Total:

24-25: 3.5m
25-26: 6.92m
26-27: 6.32m
27-28: 3.68m
28-29: 2.13m

 

[MS]

Where we're at, paying a high draft pick to get rid of the full contract is better than a buyout.

 

[credulous]

Is Mikheyev’s contract buyout friendly or are we best off dealing him? Capfriendly is glitching for me

it's not very good. saves 3.6m next year and 2.6m the following but costs 1.55m the following two years

it's palatable if you can do something really good with the space in the next two years but otherwise they should be trying to trade him imo

 

[Vector]

it's not very good. saves 3.6m next year and 2.6m the following but costs 1.55m the following two years

it's palatable if you can do something really good with the space in the next two years but otherwise they should be trying to trade him imo

Yeah, it's fine on it's own but coupled with the OEL buyout that's a lot of dead money.

 

[Ernie]

Yeah, it's fine on it's own but coupled with the OEL buyout that's a lot of dead money.

Can't really look at it that way. It allows us to keep a player like Blueger instead of him. The fact that he's scratched instead of Aman shows where his value is at. The last two years of the buyout shouldn't be that big of a deal as the OEL buyout cap hit drops and the cap is expected to escalate quickly now that the players' covid debt is paid off.

 

[Vector]

Can't really look at it that way. It allows us to keep a player like Blueger instead of him. The fact that he's scratched instead of Aman shows where his value is at. The last two years of the buyout shouldn't be that big of a deal as the OEL buyout cap hit drops and the cap is expected to escalate quickly now that the players' covid debt is paid off.

I'm not advocating for keeping him, I think having 6-7 in dead money for the next two seasons for a small upgrade in one year isn't good asset allocation. Would rather pay the draft pick or prospect cost to get rid of the contract.

 

[Just A Bit Outside]

I’d have interest in Kaliyev because I think you could get him for peanuts.

 

[MS]

Kaliyev is a guy I've always liked and if I was running, like, Seattle or some bubbleish team that needed goals I'd have a lot of interest but I'm not sure how well he'd fit in Tocchet's system on a contending team. To me he's a guy who is going to break out when he gets big minutes on a bad team.

But if he's cheap there are certainly worse options for a Pettersson linemate for next year.

 

[Hodgy]

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.

I am also generally leaning towards the trade Hronek for assets if he wants over $6 million (not saying that's your exact number/opinion).

But the way I look at it, they need to re-sign Zadorov and Joshua, and they also need to bring in a bona fide top six winger to play with Pettersson. And in order to do that it will be very difficult to keep Hronek. To put it another way, I think the increase in Pettersson's performance by adding a top six winger will be larger than the decrease in Hughes' performance by replacing Hronek with someone like Tanev. Plus, we'd get assets for Hronek, and if you end up signing a guy like Reinhart or Guentzel instead of a trade target like Ehlers, you can use those assets to both move Mikheyev but to also target cheapish depth on the backend.

 

[oceanchild]

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.

Would rather not on Ehlers, get a younger forward and resign Lindholm. Would free us additional cap space (likely) for an improved D group.

 

[bossram]

I still maintain that I don't think it will cost that much of a sweetener to dump Mikheyev, especially with the cap finally rising. A buyout is a really bad option, given the OEL buyout hit will be jumping up.

Ship him to Chicago or SJ. They need guys to fill roster spots. Tell him he waives his NTC or he's just not going to be playing.

 

[Ernie]

I'm not advocating for keeping him, I think having 6-7 in dead money for the next two seasons for a small upgrade in one year isn't good asset allocation. Would rather pay the draft pick or prospect cost to get rid of the contract.

Hard to argue one way or another without knowing what the asset cost would be.

 

[Vector]

Hard to argue one way or another without knowing what the asset cost would be.

Yeah, it's all speculation. I suspect the cost will be lower this offseason but the market could be rather unpredictable.

 

[Diamonddog01]

It's tough to gauge but I don't see any reason why the cost would be negligible. This is a player who scored 11 goals this season and makes almost 5M for two more years. I have seen no evidence or actual argument that somehow the cost will magically drop while there are plenty of historical precedents and the reported rumour that they were unable to move him at the TDL that indicates that the cost will be the same as it would for any other 5M cap dump that has two years remaining.

 

[Bourne Endeavor]

Can't really look at it that way. It allows us to keep a player like Blueger instead of him. The fact that he's scratched instead of Aman shows where his value is at. The last two years of the buyout shouldn't be that big of a deal as the OEL buyout cap hit drops and the cap is expected to escalate quickly now that the players' covid debt is paid off.

I'd rather give up our 1st than buyout Mikheyev. Going two years with 7M in deadcap basically guarantees we have to choice between sacrificing our depth or letting Boeser walk.

Fortunately, I don't think it'll cost a 1st to move Mikheyev.

 

[Just A Bit Outside]

Hire Kesler to teach Mikheyev how to shoot over the summer.

 

[racerjoe]

kaliyev would be a great 4th line target

Yeah he is someone I was wondering about too.

 

[credulous]

I'd rather give up our 1st than buyout Mikheyev. Going two years with 7M in deadcap basically guarantees we have to choice between sacrificing our depth or letting Boeser walk.

Fortunately, I don't think it'll cost a 1st to move Mikheyev.

it's also fortunate because the canucks don't have a 1st in the upcoming draft

 

[racerjoe]

I still maintain that I don't think it will cost that much of a sweetener to dump Mikheyev, especially with the cap finally rising. A buyout is a really bad option, given the OEL buyout hit will be jumping up.

Ship him to Chicago or SJ. They need guys to fill roster spots. Tell him he waives his NTC or he's just not going to be playing.

Maybe even Ott, they were looking for "pro's"

 

[Nucker101]

I still maintain that I don't think it will cost that much of a sweetener to dump Mikheyev, especially with the cap finally rising. A buyout is a really bad option, given the OEL buyout hit will be jumping up.

Ship him to Chicago or SJ. They need guys to fill roster spots. Tell him he waives his NTC or he's just not going to be playing.

I would've bought this argument like 2 or 3 months ago, not anymore.

 

[Nuckler]

If we are trading hronek I'd target buchnevik or Crouse as the main forward coming back. Or maybe Keller if they'd be open to moving him. Sign tanev and another puck moving dman (Carolina guys maybe?)

 

[Jerry the great]

I would've bought this argument like 2 or 3 months ago, not anymore.

who knows. The nhl trade market is inefficient AF. IMO, the appeal of taking on Mikheyev is the value you get: when you take on the contract (the sweetener), the on ice contribution when/if he bounces back, and then again if/when he's dealt at the TDL. None of what happens down the stretch affects this IMO.....any acquiring GM knows that he's just gassed/slower/weaker from missing an entire offseason due to major reconstructive surgery. He should have spent the bulk of the season on LTIR.

 

[Jerry the great]

If we are trading hronek I'd target buchnevik or Crouse as the main forward coming back. Or maybe Keller if they'd be open to moving him. Sign tanev and another puck moving dman (Carolina guys maybe?)

Konecny would be a decent target too...and the Flyers need a RHD....and Tocchet freaking loves him.