What if the plan wouldve worked

Created by: ColonelX

Team: 2019-20 Montreal Canadiens

Initial Creation Date: Mar. 10, 2020

Published: Mar. 10, 2020

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Let's assume that Marc's plan would've worked during the offseason, let's have a look what the team would've look like. Maybe his plan was good but just derailed because of multiple reasons.

Is this team making the playoffs?

My point of view is that the backend would look pretty similar to what we've got now, Chiarot isn't as good offensively but is better in his zone this year so it's a push. It's in front where it becomes interesting to me. I said to myself that adding Aho would be good but one player couldn't save that team yet his addition put's everyone back in a great position for success. Danault becomes our shutdown 2C, Suzuki can take minutes on the third line with very good wingers and Domi boost our LW. We could argue that the RW is still meh especially if Kovy isn't signing in Montreal but with prospects like Caufield and Ylönen it'd be a short term issue.

Trades

MTL

Gardiner, Jake

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Well known that Montreal made him an offer with more money on the table.

CAR

Chiarot, Ben

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Wouldn't sign Chiarot because Gardiner would be in Montreal.

MTL

Aho, Sebastian

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Offersheet works and he's in.

CAR

2020 1st round pick (MTL)
2020 2nd round pick (MTL)
2020 3rd round pick (MTL)

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Byebye picks

MTL

McElhinney, Curtis

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Confirmed that Montreal made an offer with good money on the table but wasn't willing to give him 2 years which was a dealbreaker.

TBL

Kinkaid, Keith

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Wouldn't sign Kinkaid with MC in town!

MTL

Scandella, Marco

STL

2020 2nd round pick (STL)

MTL

Cousins, Nick

VGK

2021 4th round pick (VGK)

MTL

Thompson, Nate

PHI

2021 5th round pick (PHI)

MTL

Kovalchuk, Ilya

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Don't know if he would've signed in Montreal but let's assume he did.

WSH

2020 3rd round pick (WSH)

MTL

ANA

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Cap casualty, would send assets but not important in this thread.

Buyouts

Steve Mason: $1,366,667

Retained Salary Transactions

Marco Scandella: $2,000,000 (50%)
Ilya Kovalchuk: $350,000 (50%)

Buried

Karl Alzner: $3,550,000 ($4,625,000)

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2020
2021
2022

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
22	$81,500,000	$79,569,475	$0	$557,500	$1,930,525

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Drouin, Jonathan $5,500,000$5,500,000 LW, RW UFA - 4	Aho, Sebastian $8,454,000$8,454,000 C UFA - 5	Gallagher, Brendan $3,750,000$3,750,000 RW, LW UFA - 2
Tatar, Tomas $4,800,000$4,800,000 LW, RW UFA - 2	Danault, Phillip $3,083,333$3,083,333 C UFA - 2	Kovalchuk, Ilya $350,000$350,000 LW, RW UFA - 1
Domi, Max $3,150,000$3,150,000 C, RW UFA - 1	Suzuki, Nick $863,333$863,333 ($425,000$425K) C UFA - 3	Armia, Joel $2,600,000$2,600,000 RW, LW UFA - 2
Byron, Paul $3,400,000$3,400,000 LW, RW UFA - 4	Thompson, Nate $1,000,000$1,000,000 C UFA - 1	Cousins, Nick $1,000,000$1,000,000 LW, C UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Gardiner, Jake $4,050,000$4,050,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 4	Weber, Shea $7,857,143$7,857,143 RD UFA - 7	Price, Carey $10,500,000$10,500,000 G NMC UFA - 7
Scandella, Marco $2,000,000$2,000,000 LD UFA - 1	Petry, Jeff $5,500,000$5,500,000 RD M-NTC, NMC UFA - 2
Mete, Victor $748,333$748,333 LD/RD UFA - 1	Fleury, Cale $771,666$771,666 ($132,500$132K) RD RFA - 2	McElhinney, Curtis $1,300,000$1,300,000 G UFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Belzile, Alex $700,000$700,000 C, RW UFA - 1
Kulak, Brett $925,000$925,000 LD/RD UFA - 3

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Mar. 10, 2020 at 2:03 p.m.

F50marco

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I did this exercise myself a little while back also.

The Habs would probably have been a playoff contender for sure. I mean simply adding Aho alone should have given the Habs a couple extra wins. Had MB pulled it all off, the team would have probably been closer to what he had envisioned, barring crazy injuries of course.

Problem is so much weighed on that OS working and yet he gave a half hearted one. So it backfired and thus became a negative aspect with nothing positive coming from it.

I don't hate MB and lots of what he has done has been good. But it seems he can't stop himself from making a terrible move right at crucial junctures of his career as GM of the Habs. Great micro GM, terrible macro GM IMO. He needs a president of hockey ops to reel him in when he gets too over the too. Molson doesn't want to involve himself in the team too much so he lets MB have full reigns but I think that is a detriment to this team right now.

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Mar. 10, 2020 at 7:36 p.m.

ColonelX

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Quoting: F50marco

I don't hate MB and lots of what he has done has been good. But it seems he can't stop himself from making a terrible move right at crucial junctures of his career as GM of the Habs. Great micro GM, terrible macro GM IMO. He needs a president of hockey ops to reel him in when he gets too over the too. Molson doesn't want to involve himself in the team too much so he lets MB have full reigns but I think that is a detriment to this team right now.

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