NHL Free Agency: Where does your team stand within the Salary Cap?
ARIZONA COYOTES
Cap space: $3,632,765
Notable Free Agents
- Taylor Hall (UFA)
- Brad Richardson (UFA)
- Carl Soderberg (UFA)
- Christian Fischer (RFA)
- Vinnie Hinostroza (RFA)
- Ilya Lyubushkin (RFA)
Forwards
Derek Stepan – $6.5 million cap hit, UFA 2021
Conor Garland – $775,000 cap hit, RFA 2021
Phil Kessel – $6.8 million cap hit, NMC, UFA 2022
Barrett Hayton – $894,167 cap hit, RFA 2022
Clayton Keller – $7.15 million cap hit UFA 2028
Nick Schmaltz – $5.85 million cap hit, UFA 2026
Christian Dvorak – $4.45 million cap hit, UFA 2025
Defensemen
Alex Goligoski – $5.475 million cap hit, NTC, UFA 2021
Niklas Hjalmarsson – $5 million cap hit, NMC, UFA 2021
Jason Demers – $3.9375 million cap hit, UFA 2021
Oliver Ekman-Larsson – $8.25 million cap hit, NMC, UFA 2027
Jakob Chychrun – $4.6 million cap hit, UFA 2025
Jordan Oesterle – $1.4 million cap hit, UFA 2021
Goaltenders
Antti Raanta – $4.25 million cap hit, UFA 2021
Darcy Keumper- $4.50 million cap hit, UFA 2022
LTIR
Marian Hossa – $5.275 million, UFA 2021
Buyouts
Michael Grabner
- 2020-21 season: $2,516,667 savings, $833,333 cap hit
- 2021-22 season: -$1,258,333 savings, $1,258,333 cap hit
2020-2021 Draft Outlook
Coyotes have 0 selections in the first three rounds of the draft. Arizona has one pick in each of the 4th through 7th rounds.
Arizona Coyotes summary
New Coyotes General Manager Bill Armstrong will have a tough task ahead of him while shaping this roster for a competitive future. Although Hossa’s money doesn’t count against the cap and only paying partial salaries for Kessel and Demers, Arizona does not have a lot of room to work with their long term contracts.
After the 2020-21 season, Arizona does have a lot of money coming off the books to work with short term. Due to the tampering scandal, they do not own a pick in the first three rounds of next year’s draft also. It will be very interesting to see what moves will be made to shape the roster.