Mathias Ekholm trade and cap solution

Created by: Rideordie

Team: 2020-21 Montreal Canadiens

Initial Creation Date: Mar. 17, 2021

Published: Mar. 18, 2021

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

Big trade to get Ek that mtl gives a lot but nash needs to retain 750k salary.
Second trade can be to any team, just to free up the 250k from weal that still appears on the salary cap so that mtl has room to call 1 guy up is needed. Mtl uses a draft pick, could be higher then 5th round, so that an other teams accepts a 250k cap hit.
Also sign Caufield to replace armia

Free Agent Signings

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

Trades

MTL

Ekholm, Mattias ($750,000 retained)

NSH

Armia, Joel
Mete, Victor
Norlinder, Mattias [Reserve List]
2021 1st round pick (MTL)

MTL

2021 7th round pick (CHI)

CHI

Weal, Jordan
2021 5th round pick (MTL)

Buyouts

Karl Alzner: $3,958,333

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2021
2022
2023

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

EMBED

TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
20	$81,500,000	$73,306,309	$0	$3,137,500	$8,193,691

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Toffoli, Tyler $2,125,000$2,125,000 RW, LW UFA - 4	Kotkaniemi, Jesperi $925,000$925,000 ($2,500,000$2M) C UFA - 1	Gallagher, Brendan $3,750,000$3,750,000 RW, LW NMC UFA - 1
Drouin, Jonathan $5,500,000$5,500,000 LW, RW UFA - 3	Suzuki, Nick $863,333$863,333 ($425,000$425K) C UFA - 2	Caufield, Cole $925,000$925,000 LW, RW UFA - 3
Tatar, Tomas $4,800,000$4,800,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Danault, Phillip $3,083,333$3,083,333 C UFA - 1	Anderson, Josh $5,500,000$5,500,000 RW, LW UFA - 7
Lehkonen, Artturi $2,400,000$2,400,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Evans, Jake $750,000$750,000 C UFA - 2	Perry, Corey $750,000$750,000 RW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Ekholm, Mattias $3,000,000$3,000,000 LD/RD UFA - 2	Weber, Shea $7,857,143$7,857,143 RD UFA - 6	Price, Carey $10,500,000$10,500,000 G NMC UFA - 6
Edmundson, Joel $875,000$875,000 LD/RD M-NTC UFA - 4	Petry, Jeff $5,500,000$5,500,000 RD M-NTC, NMC UFA - 1	Allen, Jake $4,350,000$4,350,000 G UFA - 1
Kulak, Brett $925,000$925,000 LD/RD UFA - 2	Romanov, Alexander $894,167$894,167 ($212,500$212K) LD RFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
	Chiarot, Ben $1,750,000$1,750,000 LD/RD M-NTC UFA - 2

Taxi Squad
Byron, Paul $3,400,000$3,400,000 ($2,325,000$2M$2,325,000$2M) LW, RW UFA - 3
Lindgren, Charlie $750,000$750,000 ($0$0$0$0) G UFA - 1
Frolík, Michael $750,000$750,000 ($0$0$0$0) LW, RW UFA - 1
Ouellet, Xavier $737,500$737,500 ($0$0$0$0) LD/RD UFA - 2
Dauphin, Laurent $700,000$700,000 ($0$0$0$0) C UFA - 1

Top Comments

Mar. 18, 2021 at 10:54 a.m.

villenash

Joined: May 2019

Posts: 10,261

Likes: 7,123

That doesn't get Ekholm though -- Armia (UFA) and Mete (have enough LHD coming up the pipeline that are NHL ready next season) don't really fit with NSH and Norlinder isn't enough to get it done.

Mar. 18, 2021 at 10:54 a.m.

coga16

Joined: Jun. 2015

Posts: 20,030

Likes: 12,187

the cost of Ekholm is a first and 2 prospects, not a 1st, a prospect, a pending UFA and a depth dman.. Armia and Mete do not add value to the Preds.

plus once you add in salary retention the cost goes up from the 1st and 2 prospects.

Mar. 18, 2021 at 11:06 a.m.

Kyle_Davidson

Kyle from Chicago

Joined: Feb. 2018

Posts: 9,868

Likes: 5,857

Chicago will take on a bad contract, but give us something better than that.

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Mar. 18, 2021 at 11:11 a.m.

Rideordie

Joined: Dec. 2017

Posts: 164

Likes: 27

Quoting: Stan_Bowman

Chicago will take on a bad contract, but give us something better than that.

Well for 250k cap hit, I don't think you get all that much more. I meen you can switch to a 4th round pick, but in the end its pretty much a free draft pick for chicago

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Mar. 18, 2021 at 11:12 a.m.

Rideordie

Joined: Dec. 2017

Posts: 164

Likes: 27

Quoting: coga16

Well armia and Mete have to go for the salary cap situation and they do have a plus value to the trade. But adding an other prospect is possible also but not a high end one. Maybe Ikonen who was a 2nd round pick but has been injured alot. Still has potential

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