Improving at C

Created by: KentMcNally

Team: 2021-22 Montreal Canadiens

Initial Creation Date: Oct. 7, 2021

Published: Oct. 7, 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

If Chicago falls off the pace in 2023 (with Kane and Toews being a year older and more susceptible to injury, plus Fleury possibly gone) the 2023 1st round pick from Chicago could be quite good for Montreal. Strome can step in as a 3C for now to see how he does.
Some people have said that Poehling is not overly impressive at camp so far, but with a new team maybe he does better.

Trades

MTL

Strome, Dylan
2023 1st round pick (CHI)

CHI

Drouin, Jonathan ($1,000,000 retained)
Poehling, Ryan
2022 3rd round pick (ANA)
2022 3rd round pick (CAR)
2023 2nd round pick (MTL)

Buyouts

Karl Alzner: $1,958,333

Retained Salary Transactions

Jonathan Drouin: $1,000,000 (18.18%)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2022
2023
2024

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

EMBED

TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
24	$81,500,000	$75,745,120	$597,561	$1,475,000	$5,754,880

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Toffoli, Tyler $2,125,000$2,125,000 RW, LW UFA - 3	Suzuki, Nick $863,333$863,333 ($537,500$538K) C UFA - 1	Caufield, Cole $880,833$880,833 ($300,000$300K) LW, RW UFA - 2
	Dvorak, Christian $4,450,000$4,450,000 C UFA - 4	Anderson, Josh $5,500,000$5,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 6
Hoffman, Mike $4,500,000$4,500,000 LW UFA - 3	Evans, Jake $750,000$750,000 C UFA - 1	Gallagher, Brendan $6,500,000$6,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 6
Lehkonen, Artturi $1,150,000$1,150,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Paquette, Cédric $950,000$950,000 C, LW, RW UFA - 1
Perreault, Mathieu $950,000$950,000 LW, RW, C UFA - 1	Strome, Dylan $3,000,000$3,000,000 C UFA - 1	Armia, Joel $3,400,000$3,400,000 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	Savard, David $3,500,000$3,500,000 RD UFA - 4	Allen, Jake $2,875,000$2,875,000 G UFA - 2
Kulak, Brett $925,000$925,000 LD/RD UFA - 1	Niku, Sami $750,000$750,000 LD/RD UFA - 1	Montembeault, Samuel $750,000$750,000 G UFA - 1
Romanov, Alexander $894,167$894,167 ($637,500$638K) LD RFA - 1	Wideman, Chris $750,000$750,000 RD UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
	Weber, Shea $7,857,143$7,857,143 RD UFA - 5
	Byron, Paul $3,400,000$3,400,000 LW, RW UFA - 2

Top Comments

Oct. 7, 2021 at 8:43 a.m.

Campabee

Joined: Nov. 2018

Posts: 15,557

Likes: 6,455

I don't see anywhere where we are "improving at center", no trade is even proposed, no waiver claim, no FA signing and no prospect being called up. What is the plan? Also IF Chicago struggles with Toews and Kane being a year older they go into rebuild mode and are not giving up a 1st round pick and especially not for Poehling if that was the idea.

Oct. 7, 2021 at 9:36 a.m.

SociallyHawkward

Joined: Apr. 2019

Posts: 5,669

Likes: 5,843

Take out the hawks 1st and one of the 3rds for mtl and Chicago might consider it

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Oct. 7, 2021 at 9:57 a.m.

Kyle_Davidson

Kyle from Chicago

Joined: Feb. 2018

Posts: 9,871

Likes: 5,858

Why would we give up a first in this deal?

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Oct. 7, 2021 at 10:06 a.m.

Drakin1978

Joined: Jan. 2018

Posts: 430

Likes: 96

i think the way the hawks are building, they might want poehling, a 2nd or 3rd and a player with an expiring contract that they can decide on if they want to extend if we need to give up to make room, lehkonen maybe

Oct. 7, 2021 at 10:07 a.m.

Drakin1978

Joined: Jan. 2018

Posts: 430

Likes: 96

Quoting: Drakin1978

or 2x3rds and we trade someone to another team. I would wait on Drouin so we can see what he brings this year. He has a high offensive upside given the chance and with the line this year he will have that.

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