Habs Oilers Nurse Lucic and more I look forward to your kicks and ideas

Created by: RoadRunner72

Team: 2019-20 Montreal Canadiens

Initial Creation Date: Feb. 6, 2019

Published: Feb. 6, 2019

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

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McDavid, Connor

$12,500,000 ( Performance Bonus

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Assume Habs go after Jake Gardiner July 1 but fail to bring him to the dark side. Darnell Nurse intrigues me to solidify Montreal's left side defense. Lets keep the Nurse trade and the Lucic idea basically as separate transactions to evaluate proposed value more clearly.

There must be a price point where it makes sense for a team to take on the Lucic contract that works for both sides. In this scenario, Oilers retain some salary but clear $4M on their cap for each of the next 4 years to build around McDavid-Draisatl-Nuge-Klefbom-Bouchard-Larson core of players. They also keep their 1st round picks in 2019 and 2020 for purpose of building a winner in next 5 years. Habs get good futures in exchange for paying a big piece of Edmonton's mistake on Lucic. Lucic does not fit fast style of the Habs, but perheaps after a few years they flip him again and retain some more salary, or buy him out.

Habs draft at #22 in June 2019, take Thomas Harley, offensively gifted left D-man.

Guys like Romanov, Ylonen, Suzuki, Brook, Primeau and Harley are shown as an organizational depth chart and likely won't show up at NHL level until 2020-21 season

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST	YEARS	CAP HIT
Poehling, Ryan	3	$925,000
Romanov, Alexander	3	$925,000
Ylönen, Jesse	3	$850,000
Primeau, Cayden	3	$850,000

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Armia, Joel	5	$2,500,000
Lehkonen, Artturi	5	$2,750,000
Reilly, Mike	3	$900,000
Kulak, Brett	3	$1,100,000
Hudon, Charles	2	$750,000

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Benn, Jordie		3	$1,200,000

CREATED		YEARS	CAP HIT
Harley, Thomas		3	$925,000

Trades

MTL

Nurse, Darnell
2020 3rd round pick (EDM)

Additional Details:

Nurse solidifies Montreal LD. Proven top 4 guy with some good offense and grit. Defensively not quite as sharp.

EDM

Additional Details:

Assume Juulsen's eye injury heals fully, he's a solid top 4 defensive D-man for Oilers going forward. Lekhonen proven good defensive top 6-9 forward with new contract.

MTL

Lucic, Milan ($2,000,000 retained)
Safin, Ostap
2020 2nd round pick (EDM)
2021 1st round pick (EDM)

Additional Details:

Habs take on $16M worth of Lucic over 4 years, in return for decent LW/RW prospect and future picks

EDM

Kulak, Brett

Additional Details:

Kulak helps to fill the gap on 2nd or 3rd pair Left D for Oilers with Nurse gone. And of course they gain some cap flexibility to make other moves to build around McDavid-Draisatl-RNH

MTL

2019 5th round pick (NYI)
2021 6th round pick (NYI)

Additional Details:

Could be going to any team - just moving a few roster spots for late draft picks

NYI

Buyouts

Steve Mason: $1,366,667

Buried

David Schlemko: $1,025,000 ($2,100,000)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2019
2020
2021
2022

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
30	$83,000,000	$81,385,475	$0	$3,665,000	$1,614,525

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Domi, Max $3,150,000$3,150,000 C, RW UFA - 1	Danault, Phillip $3,083,333$3,083,333 C UFA - 2	Drouin, Jonathan $5,500,000$5,500,000 LW, RW UFA - 4
	Kotkaniemi, Jesperi $925,000$925,000 ($2,500,000$2M) C UFA - 2	Gallagher, Brendan $3,750,000$3,750,000 RW, LW UFA - 2
Tatar, Tomas $4,800,000$4,800,000 LW, RW UFA - 2	Poehling, Ryan $925,000$925,000 C, LW UFA - 2	Armia, Joel $2,500,000$2,500,000 RW, LW UFA - 2
Byron, Paul $3,400,000$3,400,000 LW, RW UFA - 4	Shaw, Andrew $3,900,000$3,900,000 C, RW UFA - 3
Lucic, Milan $3,250,000$3,250,000 LW, RW NMC UFA - 4	Suzuki, Nick $863,333$863,333 ($425,000$425K) C UFA - 3	Evans, Jake $925,000$925,000 ($425,000$425K) C UFA - 1
		Ylönen, Jesse $850,000$850,000 RW, LW RFA

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Nurse, Darnell $3,200,000$3,200,000 LD UFA - 1	Weber, Shea $7,857,143$7,857,143 RD UFA - 7	Price, Carey $10,500,000$10,500,000 G NMC UFA - 7
Mete, Victor $748,333$748,333 LD/RD UFA - 1	Petry, Jeff $5,500,000$5,500,000 RD M-NTC, NMC UFA - 2	Lindgren, Charlie $750,000$750,000 G UFA - 2
Reilly, Mike $900,000$900,000 LD UFA - 2	Fleury, Cale $771,666$771,666 ($132,500$132K) RD RFA - 2	Primeau, Cayden $850,000$850,000 G RFA - 3
Romanov, Alexander $925,000$925,000 LD RFA - 3	Benn, Jordie $1,200,000$1,200,000 LD/RD UFA - 2
Harley, Thomas $925,000$925,000	Brook, Josh $795,000$795,000 ($182,500$182K) RD UFA - 3

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Alzner, Karl $4,625,000$4,625,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 3
Chaput, Michael $675,000$675,000 C UFA - 1
Deslauriers, Nicolas $950,000$950,000 LW, RW UFA - 1

Top Comments

Feb. 6, 2019 at 9:27 p.m.

Jfstompers

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You need to add pieces to keep up with toronto and Tampa and Boston even so you sure you want lucic and his dead money. I mean he's really really not good

Feb. 6, 2019 at 9:53 p.m.

LobbysOilers

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so we're retaining 33% of that contract AND paying a 1st and 2nd and a prospect? wow you might be on something strong. nobody needs to get rid of a player that badly. also you cant get nurse for that unless you added the 1st and 2nd rounders and a prospect

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Feb. 6, 2019 at 10:47 p.m.

mk458

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That first oilers trade is brutal. Nurse is a 6'4" fast skating, hard hitting, defensively sound, offensively gifted top 4 dman who's on pace for 42 points this season. If you want him be prepared to give up something of value. I don't see the Oilers giving him up unless you give us a legit top line winger back. Gallagher at least, but even then, I'd rather have nurse, who's still an rfa after this contract. Just being honest. Nurse is just too good to give up unless we get a great return

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Feb. 6, 2019 at 11:42 p.m.

RoadRunner72

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Edited Feb. 7, 2019 at 12:29 a.m.

Quoting: mk458

Thanks for the honesty. You may be right, that he's too good to give up. But I don't think the value is all that far off. Maybe the 3rd rounder goes MTL to Edmonton instead. Essentially the Oilers get two young and relatively proven players for the price of one. They have a lot of gaps to fill with competent players, and I have no doubt Lekhonene and Juulsen are both very competent NHL players just a step down from Nurse's level.

Feb. 6, 2019 at 11:49 p.m.

RoadRunner72

Lets Make a Deal

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Edited Feb. 7, 2019 at 12:29 a.m.

Quoting: Jfstompers

You need to add pieces to keep up with toronto and Tampa and Boston even so you sure you want lucic and his dead money. I mean he's really really not good

Oh I know he's really really not good these days. I see him all the time where I live, and it's even worse when you're in the arena. But that's why there's a high cost attached to move him out. Lucic can still play a reasonable 3-4 line role and be useful, but he's just way overpaid for the type of player he is now.

I think Montreal can handle some relatively dead money if the price is right - they should not be trying to really compete with Toronto & Tampa in the next couple years, that's a waste of effort. Assuming guys like Tatar and Petry are moved out before they go UFA next year, the Habs shouldn't be hurting for cap space for a couple more years.

Because i'm showing 30 guys on the "depth chart" the cap hit shown is misleading. If you send the younger guys back to junior and AHL and get the roster down to 23, it's actually about $7M in cap space still available in 2019-20

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