Breakout upside and cost-controlled trade value for every skater, optimal deployment and farm pipeline for all 32 teams, and a live trade analyzer that tells you who wins the deal.
WAR (wins above replacement) is a box-score estimate of a player's total on-ice contribution — scoring, shot volume, two-way events (takeaways, blocks, hits, giveaways), on-ice differential and discipline — netted against a positional replacement level over ice time and converted to wins. $/WAR shows how cheaply that value is bought. Trade value is surplus value — market value of a player's production minus their cap hit, plus cost-control (cheap RFAs and youth) — normalised 0–100; that's the currency GMs trade on, which is why young stars on entry-level deals top the board. Optimal lines rank each roster by a production/role score; contract projections use CapWages' own model where available; the analyzer compares total trade value on each side and flags who wins.
Data. Stats + rosters from the NHL API (current teams, so offseason moves are reflected). Cap hits, UFA/RFA status and next-contract projections live from CapWages (contracts expiring 2026–2029; players beyond that show cap n/a). Prospects from the NHL prospects feed. Best-effort model estimates from public data, not advice — for a licensed contract feed use PuckPedia.