NHL offseason grades as training camps get underway

NHL training camps are getting underway, and it's time to see how all the offseason moves will pan out.

There certainly were plenty, with the U.S. Olympic gold medal team playing center stage. Brady Tkachuk was traded to Florida to join brother Matthew, Columbus' Zach Werenski turned down a trade and Dylan Larkin and Connor Hellebuyck both requested trades.

Big money was the other story. Kirill Kaprizov was scheduled to enter the season as the NHL's highest-paid player at a $17 milion cap hit, but he was passed by Anaheim's Leo Carlsson ($18 million offer sheet), Macklin Celebrini ($18.8 million extension) and Cale Makar ($20.4 million extension) during the summer.

Here are grades for all 32 NHL teams on their offseason moves:

The Flyers' five-year, $90 million offer sheet to Leo Carlsson threw off the Ducks' salary cap situation. Though Anaheim matched, it had to overpay defenseman Pavel Mintyukov and initially lacked the room to re-sign Cutter Gauthier. The team and Chris Kreider agreed to terminate his contract to create space and Gauthier signed for six years at a reported $13.5 million cap hit. The team's defensive depth is diminished after Radko Gudas, Jacob Trouba and Olen Zellweger left, though…

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