Thinking outside the box Shea Weber trade

Team: 2021-22 Montreal Canadiens

Initial Creation Date: Jan. 7, 2022

Published: Jan. 7, 2022

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Notes

- Weber is only owed 6M over the final 4 years of the contract which comes out to 1.5M a year which most is paid out by insurance. Gives Arizona 7.8M in cap to reach cap floor for the next 4 years though. Even if Weber did come back miraculously, that's still only 1.5M in actual dollars per year on avg for a 7.8M cap hit.
- Kessel is only owed 1M in actual dollars this final year of his contract so at the TDL the amount ARI/MTL actually on the hook for is very low so they want to retain as much as possible to help the 3rd teams cap situation. Team that gets Kessel gets him at 1.7M cap hit but only like 50K in actual salary owed for a playoff run.


**Habs get rid of Webers contract and get their 2024 2nd back in exchange for retaining 1.7M of cap and like 50K of actual dollars.
**Arizona gets full value for a Kessel trade since cap space is hard to find this year for contenders, while adding a big cap hit, low salary contract to their books for 4 years.
**NYR get playoff performer Kessel for only 1.7M cap hit and like 50K in actual dollars for a couple picks.

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