The best they can hope for

Created by: MountRoyal

Team: 2022-23 Montreal Canadiens

Initial Creation Date: Dec. 30, 2022

Published: Jan. 2, 2023

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Legend

Left Handed

Original Team

Waivers Exempt

Right Handed

Position

Trade Clause

Max Perf. Bonus

Expiry Status

Term Remaining

McDavid, Connor

$12,500,000 ( Performance Bonus

$250,000)

NMC

UFA - 5

Description

There is really no market for many of these guys, so the Habs should be happy to get anything in return at all. Other teams take a cheap flier for the playoffs, mostly as injury depth with the very outside chance that a change of scenery helps these players.

Trades

MTL

2025 7th round pick (WSH)

Additional Details:

In hopes that a chance to play on Ovechkin's team can inspire a bit of a rebound out of Dadanov

WSH

Dadonov, Evgeni ($2,500,000 retained)

MTL

Beaucage, Alex

COL

Drouin, Jonathan ($2,750,000 retained)

Additional Details:

He gets out of the high pressure environment of Montreal, though if he has any success, it will more likely be that the talent around him pulls him along with them. He's got just enough intriguing raw talent to make the experiment worth it.

MTL

2024 3rd round pick (MIN)

Additional Details:

Conditions on pick could make it a 2nd with certain number of playoff games played.

MIN

Monahan, Sean ($3,150,000 retained)

MTL

Puljujärvi, Jesse
2023 2nd round pick (EDM)
2025 4th round pick (EDM)

EDM

Edmundson, Joel
2024 7th round pick (EDM)

MTL

Pánik, Richard
2024 3rd round pick (NYI)

NYI

Puljujärvi, Jesse

MTL

Zaitsev, Nikita
2024 2nd round pick (OTT)
2025 2nd round pick (OTT)

OTT

2024 7th round pick (MTL)

Buyouts

Karl Alzner: $833,333

Retained Salary Transactions

Evgeni Dadonov: $2,500,000 (100%)
Jonathan Drouin: $2,750,000 (50%)
Sean Monahan: $3,150,000 (49.41%)

Buried

Richard Pánik: $250,000 ($1,375,000)

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	$75,447,499	$1,132,500	$5,277,500	$7,052,501

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Caufield, Cole $880,833$880,833 ($850,000$850K) LW, RW UFA - 1	Suzuki, Nick $7,875,000$7,875,000 C UFA - 8	Dach, Kirby $3,362,500$3,362,500 C, RW RFA - 4
Slafkovsky, Juraj $950,000$950,000 ($3,500,000$4M) RW, LW RFA - 3	Dvorak, Christian $4,450,000$4,450,000 C UFA - 3	Anderson, Josh $5,500,000$5,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 5
Armia, Joel $3,400,000$3,400,000 RW, LW UFA - 3	Evans, Jake $1,700,000$1,700,000 C UFA - 3	Gallagher, Brendan $6,500,000$6,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 5
Pezzetta, Michael $750,000$750,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Richard, Anthony $750,000$750,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Byron, Paul $3,400,000$3,400,000 LW, RW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Guhle, Kaiden $863,333$863,333 ($420,000$420K) LD/RD RFA - 3	Savard, David $3,500,000$3,500,000 RD UFA - 3	Allen, Jake $2,875,000$2,875,000 G UFA - 1
Matheson, Michael $4,875,000$4,875,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 4	Kovacevic, Johnathan $766,667$766,667 RD UFA - 3	Montembeault, Samuel $1,000,000$1,000,000 G UFA - 2
Xhekaj, Arber $828,333$828,333 LD/RD RFA - 2	Harris, Jordan $842,500$842,500 ($507,500$508K) LD/RD RFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Wideman, Chris $762,500$762,500 RD UFA - 2		Price, Carey $10,500,000$10,500,000 G NMC UFA - 4
Hoffman, Mike $4,500,000$4,500,000 LW UFA - 2
Zaitsev, Nikita $4,500,000$4,500,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 2

Top Comments

Jan. 2, 2023 at 8:41 a.m.

turtlemountain

Joined: Jun. 2015

Posts: 2,697

Likes: 3,013

Even half retained, I don’t see Dadonov or Drouin getting positive value returns. Use those retention spots on Monahan/Edmundson/double retaining for another team.

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Jan. 2, 2023 at 8:41 a.m.

Campabee

Joined: Nov. 2018

Posts: 15,510

Likes: 6,438

You obviously don't follow a lot of hockey, as many as 7 teams have called the Habs this season about Edmundson. His value around the league and many ofthe others you have listed is higher than you think.

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Jan. 2, 2023 at 8:48 a.m.

ricochetii

Go Habs Go

Joined: Mar. 2017

Posts: 10,667

Likes: 4,091

Retention isn't an option unless the return warrants using it. It's a waste of a spot and a 7th round pick isn't worth spending the amount of actual cash to acquire.
It's better to use the slot if possible of course, but you're just throwing money away at that point. A good GM isn't wasting their owner's money like that.
Dadonov and Drouin will in all likelihood simply walk to free agency and that's okay. We aren't losing value because it just isn't there.

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Jan. 2, 2023 at 8:52 a.m.

MountRoyal

Flood Geologist

Joined: May 2016

Posts: 448

Likes: 232

Quoting: Campabee

I would be happy to be wrong, but was feeling pessimistic this morning

Jan. 2, 2023 at 8:53 a.m.

MountRoyal

Flood Geologist

Joined: May 2016

Posts: 448

Likes: 232

Quoting: ricochetii

Its true, I think the biggest value they can provide right now is walking away in the summer and leaving us all that cap room.

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