2021 Keeping the band together

Created by: Wreckless

Team: 2021-22 Montreal Canadiens

Initial Creation Date: Apr. 13, 2021

Published: Apr. 13, 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

The Lehkonen contract is the minimum he would be allowed to be awarded in arbitration, 85% of his current year salary. His numbers this season do not make a legitimate case for more.
Specifically re: KK’s contract, I wouldn’t be surprised if players coming out of ELC sign for close to their 1 year qualifying offers. The Dahlin, Svechnikov, and Brady Tkatchuk contract negotiations will be absolutely fascinating to watch unfold.
$25mm total contract value for Danault is hardly something to sneeze at for a center who’s acutely challenged re: finding the back of the net.
We could move out Byron/Kulak to Seattle or others by attaching draft picks, but hopefully we don’t need to if RFAs across the league are signing for lower $ post-COVID.

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Fleury, Cale	2	$750,000
Poehling, Ryan	2	$750,000
Lehkonen, Artturi	1	$1,870,000
Kotkaniemi, Jesperi	1	$1,925,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Danault, Phillip	6	$4,166,667
Tatar, Tomas	1	$4,000,000
Armia, Joel	4	$2,400,000
Staal, Eric	1	$800,000
Perry, Corey	1	$800,000

CREATED		YEARS	CAP HIT
DeAngelo, Tony		1	$750,000

Buyouts

Karl Alzner: $1,958,333

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	$69,156,787	$597,561	$1,475,000	$12,343,213

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Drouin, Jonathan $5,500,000$5,500,000 LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 2	Suzuki, Nick $863,333$863,333 ($537,500$538K) C UFA - 1	Anderson, Josh $5,500,000$5,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 6
Caufield, Cole $880,833$880,833 ($300,000$300K) LW, RW UFA - 2	Kotkaniemi, Jesperi $1,925,000$1,925,000 C UFA - 1	Gallagher, Brendan $6,500,000$6,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 6
Tatar, Tomas $4,000,000$4,000,000 LW, RW UFA - 2	Danault, Phillip $4,166,667$4,166,667 C UFA - 6	Toffoli, Tyler $2,125,000$2,125,000 RW, LW UFA - 3
Lehkonen, Artturi $1,870,000$1,870,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Evans, Jake $750,000$750,000 C UFA - 1	Armia, Joel $2,400,000$2,400,000 RW, LW UFA - 4

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Edmundson, Joel $875,000$875,000 LD/RD M-NTC UFA - 3	Petry, Jeff $2,343,750$2,343,750 RD M-NTC, NMC UFA - 4	Price, Carey $10,500,000$10,500,000 G NMC UFA - 5
Chiarot, Ben $1,750,000$1,750,000 LD/RD M-NTC UFA - 1	Weber, Shea $7,857,143$7,857,143 RD UFA - 5	Allen, Jake $2,875,000$2,875,000 G UFA - 2
Romanov, Alexander $894,167$894,167 ($637,500$638K) LD RFA - 1	Fleury, Cale $750,000$750,000 RD RFA - 1

Taxi Squad
Staal, Eric $800,000$800,000 ($0$0$0$0) C UFA
Byron, Paul $3,400,000$3,400,000 ($2,275,000$2M$2,275,000$2M) LW, RW UFA - 2
Perry, Corey $800,000$800,000 ($0$0$0$0) RW UFA - 2
Kulak, Brett $925,000$925,000 ($0$0$0$0) LD/RD UFA - 1
DeAngelo, Tony $750,000$750,000 ($0$0$0$0)
Primeau, Cayden $880,833$880,833 ($0$0$0$0) G RFA - 1

Top Comments

Apr. 13, 2021 at 9:26 a.m.

CLR

Best gm

Joined: Feb. 2018

Posts: 997

Likes: 303

You underpaid Kk, Danault, Tatar, lehkonen

Apr. 13, 2021 at 9:26 a.m.

DarcyTucker

TuckerKaberleSundin

Joined: Dec. 2020

Posts: 1,252

Likes: 630

Except you underpaid everyone like crazy, it's not even close to be realistic

Apr. 13, 2021 at 9:29 a.m.

palhal

LongtimeLeafsufferer

Joined: Jul. 2015

Posts: 59,438

Likes: 22,639

Though I like a lot of the Canadians prospects, IMO no way should they keep this band together. Just not good enough even in the North Division. Then when the Atlantic divlsion returns not nearly good enough. Denault/Tatar gotta go and get some new blood...though I like Tatar and Denault.

Apr. 13, 2021 at 9:33 a.m.

markmws

Mark

Joined: May 2018

Posts: 751

Likes: 323

I'm not going to comment on the team, but on your team's explanation. I think it'll be a fascinating offseason for RFAs: What will their term be and for how much? I think Hughes and Pettersson will also be really interesting. I completely doubt this will happen (just me dreaming), but could you imagine Seattle offer-sheeting Pettersson? They might get enough picks from other teams to make it worth it. Again, would never happen, but it would be pretty sweet to see.

Apr. 13, 2021 at 9:49 a.m.

BorisBagels211

BorisBagel

Joined: Dec. 2016

Posts: 554

Likes: 78

DeAngelo no just no

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