Ugh I guess

Created by: Kotkaniemi15

Team: 2020-21 Montreal Canadiens

Initial Creation Date: Mar. 29, 2021

Published: Mar. 29, 2021

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

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McDavid, Connor

$12,500,000 ( Performance Bonus

$250,000)

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UFA - 5

Description

In the 31 Thoughts blog Elliotte Friedman wrote that Bergevin was working on something involving moving Lehkonen to create cap space. Now I absolutely hate the idea of parting with Lehky, although acquiring Ekholm would lessen the pain a bit.

Also, Tuch can probably be swapped out with Myšák, Farrell, Struble, or Harris if any of them fit better for the Predators. Also if they wanted a player instead of the 2nd, they could have Brook or Poehling too.

And yes, the cap does work out, it just means that Montréal will likely have around $700K in performance bonus overages next year.

Trades

MTL

Ekholm, Mattias

NSH

Tuch, Luke [Reserve List]
2021 1st round pick (MTL)
2021 2nd round pick (TBL)

MTL

Traded somewhere for something. :’(

NSH

Lehkonen, Artturi

Buyouts

Karl Alzner: $3,958,333

Buried

Jordan Weal: $325,000 ($1,400,000)

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

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
22	$81,500,000	$76,341,309	$0	$3,137,500	$5,158,691

Roster

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Tatar, Tomas $4,800,000$4,800,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Danault, Phillip $3,083,333$3,083,333 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	Anderson, Josh $5,500,000$5,500,000 RW, LW UFA - 7
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	Armia, Joel $2,600,000$2,600,000 RW, LW UFA - 1
Byron, Paul $3,400,000$3,400,000 LW, RW UFA - 3	Staal, Eric $1,625,000$1,625,000 C M-NTC UFA - 1	Perry, Corey $750,000$750,000 RW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Ekholm, Mattias $3,750,000$3,750,000 LD/RD UFA - 2	Petry, Jeff $5,500,000$5,500,000 RD M-NTC, NMC UFA - 1	Price, Carey $10,500,000$10,500,000 G NMC UFA - 6
Chiarot, Ben $1,750,000$1,750,000 LD/RD M-NTC UFA - 2	Weber, Shea $7,857,143$7,857,143 RD UFA - 6	Allen, Jake $4,350,000$4,350,000 G UFA - 1
Edmundson, Joel $875,000$875,000 LD/RD M-NTC UFA - 4	Romanov, Alexander $894,167$894,167 ($212,500$212K) LD RFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Kulak, Brett $925,000$925,000 LD/RD UFA - 2
Mete, Victor $735,000$735,000 LD/RD UFA - 1

Taxi Squad
Frolík, Michael $750,000$750,000 ($0$0$0$0) LW, RW UFA - 1
Evans, Jake $750,000$750,000 ($0$0$0$0) C UFA - 2
Ouellet, Xavier $737,500$737,500 ($0$0$0$0) LD/RD UFA - 2
Lindgren, Charlie $750,000$750,000 ($0$0$0$0) G UFA - 1

Special Teams

Power Play 1
Kotkaniemi, J.		Gallagher, B.		Perry, C.
	Petry, J.		Tatar, T.

Power Play 2
Weber, S.		Toffoli, T.		Staal, E.
	Drouin, J.		Suzuki, N.

Penalty Kill 1
	Danault, P.	Armia, J.
	Ekholm, M.	Weber, S.

Penalty Kill 2
	Suzuki, N.	Byron, P.
	Chiarot, B.	Petry, J.

Top Comments

Mar. 29, 2021 at 2:45 p.m.

Kyle_Davidson

Kyle from Chicago

Joined: Feb. 2018

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Nashville won't sell guys with term, or at least that would be dumb of them.

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Mar. 29, 2021 at 2:47 p.m.

Tarlam01

Juraj Slapshotsky

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I love Lekhonen on a bottom 6 role. He's clearly a really good piece and I'd like to have him for the upcoming seasons. Let's be real there is at least one of Danault and Tatar that will sign elsewhere and Armia is probably out too... But man he's been not good this year... On top of that there are no space for him rn in the lineup. Swapping Byron and him is the only option and tbh I don't know if Lehkonen is that of an uppgrade on Byron... Byron has been good on a 4th line role (Not saying his salary fits what he gives but yeah...)

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Mar. 29, 2021 at 2:50 p.m.

Kotkaniemi15

Former Hockey Fan

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Quoting: Tarlam01

I completely understand why he’s a healthy scratch this year. Although I don’t want to move him because I like him a lot as a player, and also because we’ll likely lose Staal, Armia, and Tatar in free agency like you said.

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Mar. 29, 2021 at 2:53 p.m.

Kotkaniemi15

Former Hockey Fan

Joined: Jun. 2017

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Quoting: Stan_Bowman

Nashville won't sell guys with term, or at least that would be dumb of them.

I guess we’ll see. The team definitely has been better of late, but is Poile really going to lose some value from players just so they can get destroyed by the Lightning, Panthers, or Hurricanes in the 1st round? I don’t know.

I have no idea which other defenseman Montréal would be willing to move Lehkonen to acquire though.

Mar. 29, 2021 at 3:29 p.m.

AnalyticalGM

AA21

Joined: Jul. 2018

Posts: 346

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Quoting: Kotkaniemi15

Its a weak draft class, some prospects haven't played, scouts have limited travel/attendance. Hard to value 2021 draft picks equivalent to a normal year.

Also preds want an elite prospect, preferably a forward. Without Caufeld being involved MTL is not getting Ekholm. (and I would not expect MTL to move Caufeld anytime soon)

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