Adam Stringham was joined by: Chris Watkins, Namita Nandakumar, Garik16 and Shayna Goldman to redo the 2017 NHL off-season!
Here are the rules that we used for the mock off-season:
- The rosters were rolled back to the start of free agency.
- The Salary Cap has gone up 10% to 82.5M
- Max contract length is 5 years
- There are player and team options (so Connor McDavid could sign a 4 year contract with a player option for the 5th year)
- All no trade clauses are void, and teams can go over the cap to sign their own players (up to $90M)
- There is no compensation for offer sheets. the team can either match or the player walks for free.
Here is a list of where the free agents ended up:
| New Team | New Cap Hit | FA |
| BOS | 14,000,000 | Leon Draisaitl |
| BUF | 8,000,000 | Marcus Foligno |
| CAR | 8,000,000 | Jaromir Jagr |
| CAR | 13,000,000 | David Pastrnak |
| CBJ | 11,000,000 | Alexander Wennberg |
| CHI | 6,000,000 | Martin Hanzal |
| CHI | 9,000,000 | Alex Galchenyuk |
| DAL | 7,000,000 | Justin Williams |
| DAL | 13,000,000 | Andre Burakovsky |
| DET | 12,500,000 | Tomas Tatar |
| EDM | 5,500,000 | Thomas Vanek |
| EDM | 4,000,000 | Kris Russell |
| EDM | 4,000,000 | Dan Girardi |
| LAK | 9,000,000 | Patrick Marleau |
| MIN | 8,500,000 | Mikael Granlund |
| MIN | 7,500,000 | Nino Niederreiter |
| MTL | 4,000,000 | Karl Alzner |
| NSH | 11,000,000 | Ryan Johansen |
| NSH | 8,000,000 | Viktor Arvidsson |
| NYI | 10,000,000 | Alex Radulov |
| NYI | 7,000,000 | Calvin De Haan |
| NYR | 8,400,000 | Kevin Shattenkirk |
| NYR | 14,000,000 | Mika Zibanejad |
| OTT | 7,000,000 | Andrei Markov |
| OTT | 12,000,000 | Jean-Gabriel Pageau |
| PHI | 3,000,000 | Ryan Miller |
| PIT | Justin Schultz | |
| SJS | 12,000,000 | Joe Thornton |
| SJS | 4,000,000 | Chris Kunitz |
| STL | 16,000,000 | Colton Parayko |
| TBL | Ondrej Palat | |
| TBL | Tyler Johnson | |
| TOR | 5,000,000 | Jarome Iginla |
| WSH | 8,500,000 | T.J. Oshie |
| WSH | 4,000,000 | Patrick Sharp |
| WSH | 11,000,000 | Evgeny Kuznetsov |
| WSH | 8,500,000 | Dmitry Orlov |
| FA | Steve Mason | |
| FA | Brian Elliott | |
| FA | Ondrej Pavelec | |
| FA | Trevor Daley | |
| FA | Ron Hainsey |
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Here is how WAR rates each team’s summer:
| Incoming Players | Outgoing Players | Net 3 yr WAR | |
| CAR | Jaromir Jagr, David Pastrnak | 37.68 | |
| DAL | Justin Williams, Andre Burakovsky | 32.73 | |
| NYR | Kevin Shattenkirk | Dan Girardi | 28.16 |
| CHI | Martin Hanzal, Alex Galchenyuk, Noah Juulsen, 1st round Pick | Jonathan Toews | 17.23 |
| PHI | Ryan Miller | 14.87 | |
| OTT | Andrei Markov | 9.74 | |
| BOS | Leon Draisaitl | David Pastrnak | 7.4 |
| ARI | Jake Gardiner, William Nylander, Timothy Liljegren, 1st Rd Pick | Oliver Ekman-Larsson, Anthony Duclair | 5.69 |
| SJS | Chris Kunitz | Patrick Marleau | 5.18 |
| NYI | Alex Radulov | 4.06 | |
| VAN | Adrian Kempe, Dustin Brown, 1st rd pick, 2nd rd pcik | Daniel Sedin, Henrik Sedin, Ryan Miller | 3.66 |
| MTL | Jonathan Toews | Alex Galchenyuk, Noah Juulsen, 1st Rd Pick, Alex Radulov, Andrei Markov | 0.14 |
| BUF | 0 | ||
| NSH | 0 | ||
| TBL | 0 | ||
| FLA | Jaromir Jagr | 0 | |
| CBJ | 0 | ||
| CGY | 0 | ||
| STL | 0 | ||
| VGK | 0 | ||
| ANA | 0 | ||
| WPG | John Carlson, 1st Rd Pick, Braden Holtby | -3.04 | |
| DET | Tomas Tartar | Tomas Vanek | -3.98 |
| LAK | Patrick Marleau, Daniel Sedin, Henrik Sedin | Dustin Brown, 1st rd Pick, 2nd rd pick, Jarome Iginla | -7.95 |
| TOR | Oliver Ekman Larsson, Anthony Duclair, Jarome Iginla | Jake Gardiner, William Nylander, Timothy Liljegren, 1st Rd Pick | -8.49 |
| PIT | Chris Kunitz | -12.96 | |
| MIN | Martin Hanzal | -23.02 | |
| WSH | Nikolaj Ehlers, Jacob Trouba, Patrick Sharp | John Carlson, Kevin Shattenkirk, Braden Holtby, Justin Williams, 1st rd pick, Andre Burakovsky | -41.04 |
| EDM | Thomas Vanek, Kris Russel, Dan Girardi | Leon Draisaitl | -46.06 |
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