Utah is a Playoff Team

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Created by: Marked_Difference

Team: 2024-25 Arizona Coyotes

Initial Creation Date: May 1, 2024

Published: May 1, 2024

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

Clayton Keller spoke with media and felt the AZ/Utah team is a playoff team. I think they are close and here is an option that would potentially get them over the line.

1st line centers are rare to acquire, even fringe ones. Jared McCann is a rare possibility. Seattle has Beiners and Wright ready to take their places as the 1/2 punch down the middle making McCann expendable.

Utah needs to add to their blue line and there are several options available. The ones I like are Montour and Graves. The system in Utah lends to both of these guys.
Montour can still be a #1RHD but he will cost more for less term than he should, but the price is worth paying.
Graves is a really good 2nd pairing LHD being mis-used horribly by his current club.

Bit of tweaking and this really can be a playoff team next year.

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Durzi, Sean	5	$5,500,000
Hayton, Barrett	2	$2,000,000
Kesselring, Michael	2	$1,500,000
Moser, J.J.	6	$5,500,000
Välimäki, Juuso	2	$1,000,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Montour, Brandon	3	$8,500,000
Stecher, Troy	1	$1,000,000
Boyd, Travis	1	$1,500,000

Trades

ARI

McCann, Jared

SEA

Kelemen, Milos [RFA Rights]
Söderström, Victor [RFA Rights]
2024 2nd round pick (WSH)
2024 3rd round pick (EDM)
2025 2nd round pick (ARI)

Additional Details:

Soda - Good young RHD that could challenge for a roster spot in Seattle.

Milos - #13 forward good up and down the line up.

Draft picks to equalize trade value.

ARI

Graves, Ryan

Additional Details:

Graves is mis-used in the Pitt system. Allowing him to be a clogging presence, big body, shutdown guy on the 2nd pairing would be great and exactly what Utah will need.

PIT

2024 3rd round pick (COL)
2025 2nd round pick (TOR)

Buyouts

Patrik Nemeth: $1,166,667
Zack Kassian: $766,667
Oliver Ekman-Larsson: $320,000

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

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$83,500,000	$82,254,643	$0	$4,350,000	$1,245,357

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Keller, Clayton $7,150,000$7,150,000 LW, RW NTC UFA - 4	McCann, Jared $5,000,000$5,000,000 C, LW M-NTC UFA - 3	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	Guenther, Dylan $894,167$894,167 ($850,000$850K) RW, LW RFA - 1
Maccelli, Matias $3,425,000$3,425,000 LW RFA - 2	Hayton, Barrett $2,000,000$2,000,000 C, LW RFA	Doan, Josh $925,000$925,000 RW RFA - 2
Kerfoot, Alexander $3,500,000$3,500,000 LW, C, RW M-NTC UFA - 1	McBain, Jack $1,599,999$1,599,999 C, LW RFA - 1	Bjugstad, Nick $2,100,000$2,100,000 C, RW UFA - 1
	Boyd, Travis $1,500,000$1,500,000 C, RW UFA	Carcone, Michael $775,000$775,000 LW, RW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Moser, J.J. $5,500,000$5,500,000 LD/RD RFA	Montour, Brandon $8,500,000$8,500,000 RD UFA	Ingram, Connor $1,950,000$1,950,000 G UFA - 2
Graves, Ryan $4,500,000$4,500,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 5	Durzi, Sean $5,500,000$5,500,000 LD/RD RFA	Vejmelka, Karel $2,725,000$2,725,000 G UFA - 1
Välimäki, Juuso $1,000,000$1,000,000 LD RFA	Kesselring, Michael $1,500,000$1,500,000 RD RFA
	Stecher, Troy $1,000,000$1,000,000 RD UFA

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

May 1 at 4:11 p.m.

Birtle34

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Weber to ltir should gain you cap, possibly time to move on from vejimelka, possibly Hayton also. Could be a place to bargain shop a goalie with potential to pair with ingram possibly one of the better bargains in the league. Geekie coming that may stay in the middle so I would possibly swing a little higher than McCann for 1c with the assets that you have. Some cap issue teams out there that may drop someone nice to you to alleviate the cap issues. Probably busiest team in draft and July 1

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May 1 at 4:12 p.m.

KrakenTheCode

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Seattle's not going to go for that. Contrary to what you stated in the description, McCann isn't expendable. He's held down top-six center roles for the Kraken, but is just as comfortable on the wing, so he can easily move there. In fact, McCann was primarily a winger last year when Seattle made their playoff run. He's also the Kraken's best goalscorer, and Seattle's a team that needs to add scoring, not subtract it. Trading McCann would be counterproductive for the Kraken, and I don't see him going anywhere anytime soon.

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May 1 at 4:16 p.m.

LuckyMoneyPuck

SkateOrDie

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pit probably agrees

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May 1 at 4:36 p.m.

Marked_Difference

Thread Starter

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Quoting: Birtle34

Geekie needs a year or two in the AHL to get used to the pro game. Hayton fills the 3rd line center role while he develops. Agreed that there is a goalie need but Ingram/Vejmelka has consistently been above average goaltending for the NHL. Having a star tendie is important but not as critical as it was 10years ago.

May 1 at 4:46 p.m.

Birtle34

Bandwagon fairweathe

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Quoting: Marked_Difference

Hayton is a bust and ran its course, needs a change of scenery, geekie coming faster than you think, only thing stopping him from breaking camp with the team next fall is roster spots, he’s next years Guenther if the opportunity arises. As far as goaltending I hand the reigns to Ingram and try to get the value out of veji ahead of extending him. Another project looking for an opportunity, possibly the heir in Florida that has gone through a rough patch. Arizona always gets best bang for there buck in net.

May 2 at 9:18 a.m.

Imagine874859

Pens are better

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Would you guys be interested in something like Jarry and Graves for Valimaki and picks?

May 2 at 1:18 p.m.

Marked_Difference

Thread Starter

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Quoting: Imagine874859

Would you guys be interested in something like Jarry and Graves for Valimaki and picks?

I think that Jarry and Vejmelka are on about equal footing these days, mid 1B tendies. Jarry's best days between the pipes are behind him and he has already lost some of his explosiveness. Jarry would be a step in the wrong direction for Utah IMO.

May 2 at 1:26 p.m.

GM_SZK

Puckhead

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Agree with your title or so will be the goal big time...but they aim way higher than what you have there...WAY HIGHER...go Yeti!!!

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