GM Hughes draft day deal

Created by: Billy739

Team: 2023-24 Montreal Canadiens

Initial Creation Date: Dec. 18, 2022

Published: Dec. 18, 2022

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Both Deals done at the Draft before the Seasons started.
While pending UFA's will be moved later this post focuses on getting the roster ready for opening day.

My Target is Quinton Byfield former 2nd OA pick.
My logic is Berniers , Mctavish and Slafkovsky has been taken in the next 2 drafts top 3 overall.
2/3 long out produced and paced Byfield while Slafkovsky is on pace to by 2nd week Janrurary.
Byfields in his 3rd year pro and sent down but unlike Dach is set backs arent injury related.

Byfields good , really good in my opinion he could become one of the league best 2nd line Centers.
That said its going to take 2-3 years of struggling with consistency or a team going all in on him like MTL did Dach.

MTL as it stands has the 9th and 15th overall fluxuating back and forth around 11th-13th overall.
With MTL already losing without Monahan now will likely drop further with 5th-9th OA pick.
FLA has won half the last 10 games its been like that all season fluxuating between 12th-15th OA.

I see MTL Trading their pick from FLA likely 13th OA to LAK for Byfield.
Similar to Dach for 13th overall pick for CHI to get Nazar.
Unlike Dach i think Byfield not only gets 13th OA pick but also Farrel.
Farrel lead team USA in the Olympics with just 1 point off Slafkovsky's tournament lead in 3 less games.
Farrell has the NCAA's 2nd highst PPG total virtually tied for 1st in the NCAA.
Ahead of former top 3 picks and future top 3 picks like Fantilli who's just behind Farrell.

LAK get a NCAA Sophmore who overachieve's playing for his National Team at the top levels.
LAK get MTL's first prospect since Caufield to lead his country in scoring while being favorite to win the Hobey Baker Award.

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Caufield, Cole	8	$7,650,000
Pezzetta, Michael	2	$885,000
Harris, Jordan	2	$1,850,000
Harvey-Pinard, Rafaël	2	$850,000
Puljujärvi, Jesse	1	$3,450,000

Trades

MTL

Byfield, Quinton

Additional Details:

This bundle gives LAK a top Playmaking Prospect whom Currently sits on one of the NCAA's best line's with CGY Coronato and LAK Lafferriere .

Our Skills Coach and Head Coach spent camp comparing to St Louis. They point out his vision and his ability to execute it as his strength's.

At every level so far he's been top of the league surrounded by some of the biggest names in the past 2-3 drafts and the next couple. Regardless of size or skill level Farrell leads his team past them by elevating the play of all those around him especially Laferriere.

Both Farrell and Laferriere would likely be joining Kupari and Turcotte in the AHL soon. If they can click with even 1 of those center's i expect a similar level of success (while Farrell's good at Center it takes away his speed advantage one of his biggest strengths)

This is a big return giving LAK a top pick .
I think how deep this draft is gets LAK interested.
Dach stuggled alot but did more as a rookie drafted only a year early then Byfield has done to date in his 3 seasons he had the shot at starting in the NHL.

Not saying Byfields done , he's not.
Just pointing out similar value in a trade executed in percisely the same way for the same reasons with a prospect taken a year later.

LAK

Farrell, Sean [Reserve List]
2023 1st round pick (FLA)

Additional Details:

-13th OA pick (same as Dach got 1 for 1)
-Farrell who is the first MTL Prospect since Caufield to lead his Nation in Scoring while being a favorite for the Hobey Baker Award.

MTL

Foegele, Warren
Puljujärvi, Jesse [RFA Rights]
2023 1st round pick (EDM)

Additional Details:

EDM gets
-Edmundson
-Ylonen who is also a young RW roughly the same age.
-capdump Foegele
-with the money saved not signing JP that takes care of Eddy's cap hit the 2.75m from Foegele leaving is what EDM Cleared on top of.

EDM gives up
-RFA who's played 6/7 years required to be UFA who wont sign term. He's struggling in a system that doesnt fit him much like Bennet did for years in CGY only finding his true potential after leaving. He got 3m last time Arbitration will give him more next time.

-Late 1st rounder EDM makes sure of before trading it in the final day at the draft.

EDM

Edmundson, Joel
Ylönen, Jesse [RFA Rights]

Additional Details:

Trade at the Draft to EDM for JP and their 1st round pick 27th OA in this scenario for Edmundson with MTL taking Warren Foegele as a capdump to offset the cap

Buyouts

Karl Alzner: $833,333

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

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$82,500,000	$72,240,833	$1,170,000	$6,570,000	$10,259,167

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Caufield, Cole $7,650,000$7,650,000 LW, RW UFA - 8	Suzuki, Nick $7,875,000$7,875,000 C UFA - 7	Dach, Kirby $3,362,500$3,362,500 C, RW RFA - 3
Slafkovsky, Juraj $950,000$950,000 ($3,500,000$4M) RW, LW RFA - 2	Byfield, Quinton $894,167$894,167 ($2,650,000$3M) LW, C RFA - 1	Puljujärvi, Jesse $3,450,000$3,450,000 RW UFA - 2
Anderson, Josh $5,500,000$5,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 4	Dvorak, Christian $4,450,000$4,450,000 C M-NTC UFA - 2
Hoffman, Mike $4,500,000$4,500,000 LW UFA - 1	Evans, Jake $1,700,000$1,700,000 C UFA - 2	Gallagher, Brendan $6,500,000$6,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 4
Pezzetta, Michael $885,000$885,000 LW, RW UFA - 2		Armia, Joel $3,400,000$3,400,000 RW, LW UFA - 2
		Foegele, Warren $2,750,000$2,750,000 LW, RW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Guhle, Kaiden $863,333$863,333 ($420,000$420K) LD/RD RFA - 2	Matheson, Michael $4,875,000$4,875,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 3	Allen, Jake $1,925,000$1,925,000 G M-NTC UFA - 2
	Savard, David $3,500,000$3,500,000 RD UFA - 2	Montembeault, Samuel $1,000,000$1,000,000 G UFA - 1
Harris, Jordan $1,850,000$1,850,000 LD/RD RFA - 2	Kovacevic, Johnathan $766,667$766,667 RD UFA - 2
Xhekaj, Arber $828,333$828,333 LD/RD RFA - 1	Wideman, Chris $762,500$762,500 RD UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
		Price, Carey $10,500,000$10,500,000 G NMC UFA - 3

Top Comments

Dec. 18, 2022 at 11:04 p.m.

NHLfan10506

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If LAK ever move Byfield while on ELC, it would be for darn good established player. Farrell is great and pick is nice. But I think this falls short.

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Dec. 18, 2022 at 11:12 p.m.

DucharmetheDOMinator

v5 Minnesota GM

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I like the idea. And The value is great....but...if LA were to trade Byfield it would be for someone like chychrun or Meier etc

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Dec. 18, 2022 at 11:14 p.m.

DucharmetheDOMinator

v5 Minnesota GM

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For the oilers deal, I like the idea, but at this point ylonen = puli. Foegle as a cap dump and a late 1st, won't be enough to get Kent Hughes to trade him. Maybe oilers add Broberg and Habs add Norlinder , and / or Bourgaault is swapped for the 1st

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Dec. 18, 2022 at 11:22 p.m.

Lochness1202

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Is Farrell actually a favorite for Hobey Baker??? Not sure….

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Dec. 18, 2022 at 11:22 p.m.

OldNYIfan

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Here's the first reason why your statement that Byfield and Farrell have "similar value" is mistaken: Byfield, 6'4", 215 pounds, big hitter, already playing in professional hockey despite the fact that he's younger than Farrell; Farrell, 5'8", 175 pounds, unsigned prospect playing in the NCAA.

Here's the second reason why your statement that Byfield and Farrell have "similar value" is mistaken: Byfield -- automatically becomes your best center prospect, without much quality ahead of him; Farrell, far behind well-developed prospects like Grundstrom, Anderson-Dolan, Turcotte and Fa-gem-o if we're talking about LW, Madden, Helenius and Pinelli if we're talking about center (although I will admit that if Farrell makes it to the NHL, he has a higher ceiling than any of them and might turn out to be the next Clayton Keller).

Here's the third reason why your statement that Byfield and Farrell have "similar value" is mistaken: we have sufficient depth at all of the forward positions that Farrell wouldn't interest us; our major weakness for which we would consider trading Byfield is at LhD. IF (and it's a big IF) we agreed with your analysis that Byfield will take much longer to develop, we'd only be interested in trading for Kaiden Guhle or Arber Xhekaj.

Finally, we tend to be patient with our prospects. (See Vilardi and Turcotte.) I highly doubt that we'd give up on Byfield this quickly.

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