Turning the corner CGY and OTT

Created by: HabsRafiki

Team: 2019-20 Montreal Canadiens

Initial Creation Date: Mar. 24, 2019

Published: Apr. 18, 2019

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$12,500,000 ( Performance Bonus

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UFA - 5

Description

If the Habs are going to build on their "rolling 4" strategy that served them will this year, they'll need to find some more grit (Bennett & Lazar) and a PP sniper (Ryan).

Ottawa makes the move to unload Ryan's contract, to purge the team of disenchanted vets, and pick up a hometown kid who never takes a shift off. To cover the $4M salary that Molson would be taking from Melnyk, there's Lajoie. He's a good up and comer, but his offensive icetime will be curtailed by Brannstrom and Chabot and he will lose out to Wolanin for the shut-down role.

For Bennett, Calgary climbs up in the draft by 10 spots (or more) and picks up an extra pick for 2020. Bennett has struggled to live up to his draft-year billing, but he's a solid player with a scrappy nature.

The Flames have a glut at LD (Hanifin and Kylington) and the Habs have a bit of a glut at RD (assuming Juulsen is 100% as he claims), so the swap of Dmen is pretty straight forward.

Lazar baffles me, but I still believe he has NHL potential in the right situation. He was such a good junior player and a great leader. He then had two pretty decent years with the Sens and then the wheels came off his career. Still as a part-timer, he's a scrappy hitter/forechecker which is always in demand on Claude Julien teams. (I left Lazar out of the CGY trade as it's not clear the Flames will tender him an offer)

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST	YEARS	CAP HIT
Poehling, Ryan	3	$925,000
Primeau, Cayden	3	$825,000
Tyszka, Jarret	3	$725,000
Walford, Scott	3	$725,000
Ikonen, Joni	3	$900,000
Ylönen, Jesse	3	$900,000

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Armia, Joel	2	$2,200,000
Audette, Daniel	2	$800,000
Kulak, Brett	2	$1,600,000
Lehkonen, Artturi	4	$3,000,000
Lernout, Brett	2	$780,000
McCarron, Michael	2	$900,000
Olofsson, Gustav	2	$900,000
Ouellet, Xavier	2	$900,000
Lazar, Curtis	2	$950,000
Bennett, Sam	3	$2,450,000

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Folin, Christian		3	$1,200,000
Weal, Jordan		3	$2,200,000

CREATED		YEARS	CAP HIT
Kaski, Oliwer		3	$925,000

Offer Sheets

Offer sheet annual average (AAV) is calculated by dividing the contract value by the lower of: 1. The contract length, or 2. Five years

PLAYER	AAV	COMPENSATION
Lazar, Curtis	$950,000	No Compensation

Trades

MTL

Bennett, Sam [RFA Rights]
Välimäki, Juuso
2019 1st round pick (CGY)

CGY

Brook, Josh
Deslauriers, Nicolas
2019 1st round pick (MTL)
2020 3rd round pick (MTL)

MTL

OTT

Buyouts

Steve Mason: $1,366,667
Dale Weise: $1,183,333
Karl Alzner: $1,069,444

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

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$81,500,000	$77,806,586	$0	$2,745,000	$3,693,414

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Drouin, Jonathan $5,500,000$5,500,000 LW, RW UFA - 4	Domi, Max $3,150,000$3,150,000 C, RW UFA - 1	Shaw, Andrew $3,900,000$3,900,000 C, RW UFA - 3
Tatar, Tomas $4,800,000$4,800,000 LW, RW UFA - 2	Danault, Phillip $3,083,333$3,083,333 C UFA - 2	Gallagher, Brendan $3,750,000$3,750,000 RW, LW UFA - 2
Ryan, Bobby $7,250,000$7,250,000 RW, LW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 3	Kotkaniemi, Jesperi $925,000$925,000 ($2,500,000$2M) C UFA - 2	Armia, Joel $2,200,000$2,200,000 RW, LW UFA - 2
Lehkonen, Artturi $3,000,000$3,000,000 LW, RW UFA - 2	Weal, Jordan $2,200,000$2,200,000 C, RW, LW UFA - 2	Bennett, Sam $2,450,000$2,450,000 C UFA - 2

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Kulak, Brett $1,600,000$1,600,000 LD/RD UFA - 3	Petry, Jeff $5,500,000$5,500,000 RD M-NTC, NMC UFA - 2	Price, Carey $10,500,000$10,500,000 G NMC UFA - 7
Mete, Victor $748,333$748,333 LD/RD UFA - 1	Weber, Shea $7,857,143$7,857,143 RD UFA - 7	Lindgren, Charlie $750,000$750,000 G UFA - 2
Lajoie, Maxime $710,000$710,000 ($70,000$70K) LD RFA - 2	Juulsen, Noah $863,333$863,333 ($175,000$175K) RD UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Peca, Matthew $1,300,000$1,300,000 LW, C UFA - 1
Lazar, Curtis $950,000$950,000 RW, C UFA - 1
Folin, Christian $1,200,000$1,200,000 RD UFA - 1

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Apr. 18, 2019 at 1:13 p.m.

sens65

Joined: Mar. 2018

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if im ottawa i think i accept
because we have too many d prospects for all of them to play

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Apr. 18, 2019 at 1:15 p.m.

Flames22

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Huge no from the Flames. Calgary refused to trade Valimaki for Mark Stone, no way that trade him because of an apparent glut at LD. He is the team's next #1 dman, so if you want him, you're talking Price with retained money just to start the conversation.

And don't sleep on Bennett either. He's better than his point totals suggest.

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Apr. 18, 2019 at 1:26 p.m.

skriko

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like bennett or ferland or both in a Habs jersey next year, any way to get that done

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Apr. 18, 2019 at 1:32 p.m.

HabsRafiki

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Quoting: Flames22

Thanks!! I like this answer, but I want to tease it out a bit with you. First, I really like Bennett, but he is underused in Calgary (not undervalued) and is a depreciating asset. The Flames had no first rounder last year, so the chance to move up in the draft would be meaningful, I suspect, based on what I've read about the "depth" of the top 15 in this year's prospects. Realistically, on performance, Bennett is worth a second rounder, so the swap of first and a third would be a decent payoff.

Second, a question, if Valimaki is untouchable (which I get), would Kylington be available? I would think that might work, too. Unless Hanifin has run afoul of fans, he's still the best horse in the Flames stable. Giordano, though old on paper, is showing no signs of slowing down and is under contract for the next 3 years. So really there's only room for one rookie on the left side, so without a move, you'll eventually lose one to waivers or expansion. On the right, there's Rasmus Andersson but with Hamilton and Fox gone, there' no one else in the pipeline. Brook is a good Western boy who would fit the Calgary style perfectly.

As for Mark Stone, there was never any talk of him staying in Canada after this summer, so he would have been a rental. I wouldn't trade Valimaki for a rental. That's what picks are for.

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Apr. 18, 2019 at 1:37 p.m.

math731

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Brook might be better than Valimaki, not a chance MTL give the 15th overall on top of that.

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