What a great place for Montreal to be next year

Created by: ColonelX

Team: 2023-24 Montreal Canadiens

Initial Creation Date: Sep. 7, 2022

Published: Sep. 7, 2022

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

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McDavid, Connor

$12,500,000 ( Performance Bonus

$250,000)

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UFA - 5

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With Carey obviously back to LTIR this team will have a staggering 27.7 million dollars of cap space! Monahan, Byron, Dadonov are likely all being traded at the 2023 TDL for future assets, looking at the big picture you get why Hoffman isn't much of a cap issue for next year.
Montreal likely going for a big name in FA or trade market, here are the three more likely from my POV (Every other big agent will either be re-signed or is too old to fit our window).
- Dubois would make sense being back RFA and with Dvorak contracts expiring.
- If a deal can be done (If he express he wants out), Meier would be cementing this left wing with a Meier/Slaf combo.
- Horvat even doe he is often injured would be an excellent 2/3C to get in case Dubois falls through.
- Extra, Comptois could be a buy low type of guy.
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-Heineman, Ylonen and Pinard moves up to the NHL as regulars up front, Guhle comes in as a regular on the back end.
-Heineman and RHP are net front presence for the PP.

Anyone not named Bedard wouldn't start in Montreal right away.

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Caufield, Cole	8	$6,850,000
Harris, Jordan	2	$2,250,000
Pezzetta, Michael	1	$950,000
Primeau, Cayden	2	$1,800,000
Ylönen, Jesse	2	$900,000
Harvey-Pinard, Rafaël	2	$925,000

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Allen, Jake		1	$3,000,000

Trades

MTL

No idea on the market or the type of return we could expect by then. With 10.5 million still free we could certainly retain if needed.

NSH

Hoffman, Mike

Additional Details:

Likely sent away to a team looking for a middle six scoring winger that helps on the powerplay. With retention there should be a

Buyouts

Karl Alzner: $833,333

Buried

Cayden Primeau: $650,000 ($1,800,000)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2023
2024
2025

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$82,500,000	$66,064,166	$1,170,000	$4,195,000	$16,435,834

Roster

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Caufield, Cole $6,850,000$6,850,000 LW, RW UFA - 8	Suzuki, Nick $7,875,000$7,875,000 C UFA - 7	Anderson, Josh $5,500,000$5,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 4
Slafkovsky, Juraj $950,000$950,000 ($3,500,000$4M) RW, LW RFA - 2	Dach, Kirby $3,362,500$3,362,500 C, RW RFA - 3	Gallagher, Brendan $6,500,000$6,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 4
Heineman, Emil $897,500$897,500 LW, RW RFA - 2	Dvorak, Christian $4,450,000$4,450,000 C M-NTC UFA - 2	Ylönen, Jesse $900,000$900,000 RW, LW RFA - 1
	Evans, Jake $1,700,000$1,700,000 C UFA - 2	Harvey-Pinard, Rafaël $925,000$925,000 LW, RW RFA - 2
Pitlick, Rem $1,100,000$1,100,000 LW, RW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Edmundson, Joel $875,000$875,000 LD/RD M-NTC UFA - 1	Matheson, Michael $4,875,000$4,875,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 3	Montembeault, Samuel $1,000,000$1,000,000 G UFA - 1
Harris, Jordan $2,250,000$2,250,000 LD/RD RFA - 2	Savard, David $3,500,000$3,500,000 RD UFA - 2
Guhle, Kaiden $863,333$863,333 ($420,000$420K) LD/RD RFA - 2	Barron, Justin $925,000$925,000 ($275,000$275K) RD RFA - 1	Allen, Jake $3,000,000$3,000,000 G UFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Armia, Joel $3,400,000$3,400,000 RW, LW UFA - 2		Price, Carey $10,500,000$10,500,000 G NMC UFA - 3
Pezzetta, Michael $950,000$950,000 LW, RW UFA - 2
Wideman, Chris $762,500$762,500 RD UFA - 1

Special Teams

Power Play 1
Heineman, E.		Suzuki, N.		Slafkovsky, J.
	Caufield, C.		Harris, J.

Power Play 2
Ylönen, J.		Dach, K.		Anderson, J.
	Pitlick, R.		Barron, J.

Penalty Kill 1
	Dvorak, C.	Pitlick, R.
	Edmundson, J.	Guhle, K.

Penalty Kill 2
	Evans, J.
	Harris, J.	Savard, D.

Top Comments

Sep. 7, 2022 at 2:36 p.m.

Joblow

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Caufield will command more on a 8 year deal. My guess is that he will get around what Suzuki have gotten.

Sep. 7, 2022 at 2:54 p.m.

BadaBing

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Quoting: Joblow

Caufield will command more on a 8 year deal. My guess is that he will get around what Suzuki have gotten.

Depends on what he does this year. If he is at 25-30 goals at the TDL I could see that, if he is at 10-15 goals by the TDL it will be a bridge deal 3 years at approx $4-5M

Sep. 7, 2022 at 2:56 p.m.

Joblow

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Quoting: BadaBing

Depends on what he does this year. If he is at 25-30 goals at the TDL I could see that, if he is at 10-15 goals by the TDL it will be a bridge deal 3 years at approx $4-5M

I am confident that he will be close to 40 goal by the end of the season.

Sep. 7, 2022 at 3:09 p.m.

ColonelX

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Quoting: Joblow

Caufield will command more on a 8 year deal. My guess is that he will get around what Suzuki have gotten.

With Suzuki under 8, Brady Tkachuk just above 8 and now Stutzle slitghly above 8 I can't see Cole making anywhere close to this. Gallagher was signed to a 6.5M deal after back to back 30 goal seasons, anywhere between 6.5 to 7.25 should be expected if he has another good year.

Sep. 7, 2022 at 3:20 p.m.

Andy_Dick

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Quoting: Joblow

I am confident that he will be close to 40 goal by the end of the season.

I agree. Low end will be 30 goals.

I do think though that the contract wont be that much higher than the OP suggests. Gaudreau signed for 9 million as a UFA. Wingers dont get the bag!

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