Thinking outside the box with Carey Price trade

Team: 2021-22 Montreal Canadiens

Initial Creation Date: Jan. 6, 2022

Published: Jan. 7, 2022

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

DISCLAIMER: This only is hypothetical IF Price comes back from injury and plays well like he did prior to this season and the trade happens at the TDL.


- ARI/EDM's portion of Price's actual dollars owed is 7.818M each spread out over 4 years so approx 1.954M actual dollars owed per year. (2.625M x 4 years of cap hit though)

- I included Klefbom only for Arizona to place him on IR so that they can use his cap to reach the cap floor next year. IF this isn't the case, we can just remove him from the deal. I was only trying to sweeten ARI/EDM side with some dead cap/cap relief for either of them next year but its not necessary to the deal here so we can remove it if not wanted.



Breakdown:

ARI gains:
Carey Price's contract cap hit 2.625M/Year, Klefbom, Yamamoto and a CAR 3rd 2022.


EDM gains:
Carey Price @ 2.625M/Year and a TB 4th round pick.


MTL Gains:
Ladd, Koskinen, EDM 1st 2022 and MTL 2nd 2024 (From ARI)



***Habs fans: we are not competing this year or next so Koskinen and Ladd don't affect the rebuild at all. Carey Price will have only 2 years left at that point. 5.25M is a lot of dead cap for two years but we'll hopefully have a young cheap team and not even reaching the cap ceiling anyway so its not a big deal.

Shane Wright will be in the 1st year of his RFA contract in the last year of Price's. Bedard will still be on his ELC. ;)

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