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Team: 2022-23 Montreal Canadiens

Initial Creation Date: Dec. 20, 2021

Published: Dec. 20, 2021

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

As we saw last offseason Arizona did try to take on contracts that paid lees than their cap hit to save money.

Well the habs have a very nice piece for them in Shea Weber. He still has 31.4 million in cap hit and will likely never cost them a actual dollar as the insurance would cover his salary. Putting him on IR immediately means they dont have to actually spend that money. Even if they somehow have to pay the salary he is only owed 6 million total.

This is doubly important because especially next year if Chycrun is gone by then they could still be roughly 35 million from the floor. That is a lot of cap space to cvoer in a situation that good players probably dont want to go to. This is where the rest of the trade comes in.

Byron- retained at 50 percent brings his cap hit down to 1.7 million. Byron is a competent NHLer and gives them a asset to move next deadline.

Hoffman and Armia- both solid nhlers who have decent enough cap hits on not aggressively long deals that can help them reach the floor.

It is important to note that over the life of all 4 players deals the cap hit is 52.3 million while salary expenditure is 23 million.

Habs get cap flexibility and Arizona gets cap that cost less than 50 cents on the dollar so they spend less actual money