Derniere pour Lafreniere

Created by: Blazingbat11

Team: 2020-21 Montreal Canadiens

Initial Creation Date: Aug. 28, 2019

Published: Aug. 28, 2019

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Legend

Left Handed

Original Team

Waivers Exempt

Right Handed

Position

Trade Clause

Max Perf. Bonus

Expiry Status

Term Remaining

McDavid, Connor

$12,500,000 ( Performance Bonus

$250,000)

NMC

UFA - 5

Description

First of all, I highly doubt MTL finishes last or in a position where their odds of winning the draft lottery are high. But since this is ACGM, let's have fun and speculate that MTL miss the playoffs by whatever amount of points and miraculously win the draft lottery.

Welcome Alexis Lafreniere!

Secondly, I'm fairly confident that if MTL miss the playoffs... again... Marc Bergevin gets fired. He will not be given a 4th chance to fix his f**%-ups.

Thirdly, players I have placed in the LTIR section are not injured. They are the players that would be traded at the trade deadline if MTL have a crap 2019 season, or during the 2020 offseason if the Habs marginally miss the playoffs. I'm not doing "actual" trades for these players as they would only be for picks and prospects, use your imagination on what you think they'd get...

Fourthly, the trade I'm "actually" attempting on here is moving Drouin. The reason for this is if MTL have a crap season / miss the playoffs kind of year, Drouin would be 99% taking most of the blame for the teams shortcomings, since it would be his 3rd season with the team having not accomplished much, and unrealistic expectations given to him by both the fanbase AND the organization. There must always be "that guy" that people love to blame. Drouin is that guy for MTL. Because of another lackluster season, His value would be diminished to the point where almost all Habs fans would not be happy with what the return would be, but... you know...c'est la vie...

Fifthly (is that even a real word?), guys like Price, Weber, and Byron will not be traded for any kind of rebuild. They will be used as the veteran presence and help insulate a young team. Their contract will a secondary purpose to stay above the cap floor during the rebuilding years as well. Someone like Gallagher will also be included in this group, but would need a contract extension, if an agreement cannot be made, he will be put on the 2020-21 season trade block. Same for Danault.

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST		YEARS	CAP HIT
Caufield, Cole		3	$925,000
Romanov, Alexander		3	$925,000

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Domi, Max	4	$7,000,000
Evans, Jake	2	$925,000
Juulsen, Noah	2	$2,500,000
Mete, Victor	2	$2,500,000

CREATED		YEARS	CAP HIT
Laferniere, Alexis		3	$925,000

Trades

MTL

Ratcliffe, Isaac
2020 2nd round pick (PHI)
2021 7th round pick (PHI)

PHI

Drouin, Jonathan

Buyouts

Karl Alzner: $3,958,333

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

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$83,000,000	$58,897,974	$0	$4,010,000	$24,102,026

Roster

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Laferniere, Alexis $925,000$925,000	Kotkaniemi, Jesperi $925,000$925,000 ($2,500,000$2M) C UFA - 1	Caufield, Cole $925,000$925,000 LW, RW UFA - 3
Domi, Max $7,000,000$7,000,000 C, RW UFA - 2	Danault, Phillip $3,083,333$3,083,333 C UFA - 1	Gallagher, Brendan $3,750,000$3,750,000 RW, LW NMC UFA - 1
Ratcliffe, Isaac $780,833$780,833 ($82,500$82K) LW UFA - 2	Poehling, Ryan $925,000$925,000 ($850,000$850K) C, LW UFA - 1	Suzuki, Nick $863,333$863,333 ($425,000$425K) C UFA - 2
Byron, Paul $3,400,000$3,400,000 LW, RW UFA - 3	Evans, Jake $925,000$925,000 C UFA - 2	Weal, Jordan $1,400,000$1,400,000 C, RW, LW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Mete, Victor $2,500,000$2,500,000 LD/RD UFA - 1	Weber, Shea $7,857,143$7,857,143 RD UFA - 6	Price, Carey $10,500,000$10,500,000 G NMC UFA - 6
Romanov, Alexander $925,000$925,000 LD RFA - 2	Juulsen, Noah $2,500,000$2,500,000 RD UFA - 1	Lindgren, Charlie $750,000$750,000 G UFA - 1
Chiarot, Ben $1,750,000$1,750,000 LD/RD M-NTC UFA - 2	Brook, Josh $795,000$795,000 ($132,500$132K) RD UFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Kulak, Brett $925,000$925,000 LD/RD UFA - 2		Tatar, Tomas $4,800,000$4,800,000 LW, RW UFA - 1
Teasdale, Joël $763,333$763,333 RW, LW UFA - 2		Petry, Jeff $5,500,000$5,500,000 RD M-NTC, NMC UFA - 1
Fleury, Cale $771,666$771,666 ($20,000$20K) RD RFA - 1		Lehkonen, Artturi $2,400,000$2,400,000 LW, RW UFA - 1
		Armia, Joel $2,600,000$2,600,000 RW, LW UFA - 1
		Reilly, Mike $1,500,000$1,500,000 LD UFA - 1

Special Teams

Power Play 1
Caufield, C.		Kotkaniemi, J.		Laferniere, A.
	Weber, S.		Brook, J.

Power Play 2
Suzuki, N.		Domi, M.		Gallagher, B.
	Mete, V.		Romanov, A.

Penalty Kill 1
	Danault, P.	Gallagher, B.
	Romanov, A.	Weber, S.

Penalty Kill 2
	Poehling, R.	Byron, P.
	Chiarot, B.	Juulsen, N.

Top Comments

Aug. 28, 2019 at 8:45 p.m.

AndrewLadd

Bo Horvat enjoyer

Joined: Mar. 2019

Posts: 10,711

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I don’t think MB is getting fired. I think he had a good year as a GM last year, even though MTL missed the playoffs

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Aug. 28, 2019 at 8:52 p.m.

Kotkaniemi15

Former Hockey Fan

Joined: Jun. 2017

Posts: 13,144

Likes: 10,516

Hate the description, love the title (though not when applying to the Canadiens).

Aug. 28, 2019 at 8:53 p.m.

Blazingbat11

Molson beer is meh

Joined: Jan. 2017

Posts: 3,828

Likes: 1,749

Quoting: AndrewLadd

I don’t think MB is getting fired. I think he had a good year as a GM last year, even though MTL missed the playoffs

I disagree. Bergevin said last season that the goal was to make the playoffs. They failed at that. The leeway given to him was due to the prospect pool he managed to build up in such a short time span which, granted, is pretty incredible considering 2 years ago everyone, including Habs fans, were saying MTL had one of the weakest prospect pools in the the NHL.

The goal this season is to make the playoffs again. He said it himself. Same as the owner. He won't really have the "hey look at the prospect pool I've built" card when it's already one of the top 5 prospect pools in the NHL. No playoffs again would mean no playoffs 4 out of the last 5 years. He won't survive that.

Aug. 28, 2019 at 8:56 p.m.

Blazingbat11

Molson beer is meh

Joined: Jan. 2017

Posts: 3,828

Likes: 1,749

Quoting: EthanK24

Hate the description, love the title (though not when applying to the Canadiens).

I did go a lot harsher than usual didn't I? lol

but if the Habs 2019 season does go up in flames (fingers crossed it doesn't), I don't think it's an unrealistic scenario.... and it still gives MTL Lafreniere (YAY!)

Aug. 28, 2019 at 9:22 p.m.

ChiHawk

Joined: Apr. 2017

Posts: 19,028

Likes: 9,330

Chicago barely misses the playoffs again, gets a lottery pick, and ends up with the #1 OA....because the lottery is fixed! rock on

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