Free Agent Splashes to Be Competitive

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Created by: OldNYIfan

Team: 2024-25 Arizona Coyotes

Initial Creation Date: Apr. 25, 2024

Published: Apr. 25, 2024

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

Utah's new owner says that he and his wife want their team to be competitive right out of the box, so I expect them to aggressively pursue free agents in the off season. I don't expect them to be able to land any of the big names (Guentzel, Lindholm, Reinhart, Pesce, Roy) but I'll take Chandler Stephenson or Sean Monahan at $5.5 million for however many years they want and Jonathan Marchessault or Tyler Toffoli at $6 million for however many years they want. (If Utah can't land one of the latter, maybe they can sign Jake DeBrusk for up to $5 million.) Brady Skjei should like his number and term.

None of the current crop of free-agent goaltenders appealed to me, at least for Utah.

Toronto fans are always insisting that Timothy Liljegren is worth more than a second, so, here's twice that.

Utah puts an end to the previous regime's Barrett Hayton mistake; Habs fans keep telling everyone that Jordan Harris or Jayden Struble has to go. I'll take either.

A couple of recent first-round draft picks signed off the Reserve List even though I don't think that will happen this season; I'm just doing this so no one forgets who's in the pipeline.

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST		YEARS	CAP HIT
But, Daniil		3	$950,000
Simashev, Dmitri		3	$950,000

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Durzi, Sean	7	$6,000,000
Liljegren, Timothy	1	$2,800,000
Kesselring, Michael	2	$2,000,000
Moser, J.J.	2	$2,000,000
Välimäki, Juuso	1	$2,000,000
Söderström, Victor	2	$1,300,000
Kelemen, Milos	2	$850,000
Jeník, Jan	2	$813,750
McCartney, Ben	2	$813,750

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Skjei, Brady	5	$6,500,000
Toffoli, Tyler	3	$6,000,000
Stephenson, Chandler	5	$5,500,000
O'Brien, Liam	2	$950,000

CREATED		YEARS	CAP HIT
Buium, Zeev		3	$975,000

Trades

ARI

Liljegren, Timothy [RFA Rights]

TOR

2024 2nd round pick (FLA)
2025 2nd round pick (TOR)

Buried

Victor Söderström: $150,000 ($1,300,000)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2024
2025
2026

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

EMBED

TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$87,500,000	$81,022,143	$0	$4,407,500	$6,477,857

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Keller, Clayton $7,150,000$7,150,000 LW, RW NTC UFA - 4	Stephenson, Chandler $5,500,000$5,500,000 C, LW UFA	Schmaltz, Nick $5,850,000$5,850,000 RW, C M-NTC UFA - 2
Crouse, Lawson $4,300,000$4,300,000 LW, RW UFA - 3	Cooley, Logan $950,000$950,000 ($3,500,000$4M) C RFA - 2	Toffoli, Tyler $6,000,000$6,000,000 RW, LW UFA
Maccelli, Matias $3,425,000$3,425,000 LW RFA - 2	McBain, Jack $1,599,999$1,599,999 C, LW RFA - 1	Guenther, Dylan $894,167$894,167 ($850,000$850K) RW, LW RFA - 1
Kerfoot, Alexander $3,500,000$3,500,000 LW, C, RW M-NTC UFA - 1	Bjugstad, Nick $2,100,000$2,100,000 C, RW UFA - 1	Doan, Josh $925,000$925,000 RW RFA - 2
Carcone, Michael $775,000$775,000 LW, RW UFA - 1
O'Brien, Liam $950,000$950,000 LW, RW UFA

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Skjei, Brady $6,500,000$6,500,000 LD UFA	Durzi, Sean $6,000,000$6,000,000 LD/RD RFA	Vejmelka, Karel $2,725,000$2,725,000 G UFA - 1
Välimäki, Juuso $2,000,000$2,000,000 LD RFA	Liljegren, Timothy $2,800,000$2,800,000 RD RFA	Ingram, Connor $1,950,000$1,950,000 G UFA - 2
Moser, J.J. $2,000,000$2,000,000 LD/RD RFA	Kesselring, Michael $2,000,000$2,000,000 RD RFA
Struble, Jayden $867,500$867,500 ($57,500$58K) LD RFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
	Weber, Shea $7,857,143$7,857,143 RD UFA - 2

Apr. 26 at 6:24 p.m.

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GM_SZK

Puckhead

Joined: Sep. 2023

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Quoting: OldNYIfan

Liljegren has some value. I think that two seconds is probably high but I wanted to pre-empt the outraged screams of Toronto homers claiming he's as good as Bowen Byram. (One such in particular has said that he's worth two top-40 picks.) I thought your comment was criticizing me for saying that he was only worth two fifths.

Ahh so because I made a judgement relating to hockey you made a judgement about my vision…boooooo

Picking on you but it’s kind of sad some of the comments on here especially from you who was high on my list of respected posters… mostly cuz I’m also an old NYI fan…1977 to about 1988

Apr. 26 at 7:07 p.m.

#27

OldNYIfan

Thread Starter

Once a Kings Fan Too

Joined: Jun. 2018

Posts: 40,689

Likes: 25,513

Quoting: GM_SZK

I didn't make a judgment, I gave you the benefit of the doubt and tried to make a joke . . . too bad it didn't come across to you.

GM_SZK liked this.

Apr. 26 at 8:53 p.m.

#28

GuyGuyGuy

Prime Primeau

Joined: Apr. 2023

Posts: 5,502

Likes: 2,189

Quoting: Random2152

Sandy and Lily are currently the same age. Pay attention.
And Lily has been good in T-4 mins. Thinking otherwise shows your lack of knowledge

According to the official nhl website, Sandin is 24, birthday march 7. Liljegren is gonna be 25 in 3 days. Sure they are the same age, for 3 days. The Sandin trade also happened when he was 22…

Liljegren has been outrageously bad in a top 4 role this season lol

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