This draft will be huge for the rebuild

Created by: OldHabsFan61

Team: 2023-24 Montreal Canadiens

Initial Creation Date: Mar. 5, 2023

Published: Mar. 6, 2023

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

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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

I’m taking a guess at who we draft. Obviously everything could change based on lottery outcomes.

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST		YEARS	CAP HIT
Sund, Tony		2	$775,000

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Caufield, Cole	6	$6,250,000
Gurianov, Denis	1	$3,000,000
Allard, Frédéric	3	$825,000
Beaudin, Nicolas	3	$875,000
Harvey-Pinard, Rafaël	2	$950,000
Ylönen, Jesse	2	$900,000
Richard, Anthony	1	$800,000
Blackwood, Mackenzie	1	$3,000,000

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Brassard, Derick		1	$775,000
Toninato, Dominic		1	$775,000

CREATED		YEARS	CAP HIT
Sale, Eduard		3	$900,000
Ritchie, Calum		3	$900,000

Trades

MTL

Ceci, Cody

Additional Details:

Ceci is a likely candidate to be moved for some cap relief. Hoffman better be able to score there if he ever wants to see significant minutes again. Wideman would be a nice bottom pairing rotational piece.

EDM

Hoffman, Mike ($2,250,000 retained)
Wideman, Chris
2023 4th round pick (VGK)

MTL

Blackwood, Mackenzie [RFA Rights]
2024 3rd round pick (NJD)

Additional Details:

If they’re losing Graves as a UFA, Joel would be a nice addition to the left side.

NJD

Edmundson, Joel ($1,750,000 retained)
Pezzetta, Michael [RFA Rights]

MTL

2023 4th round pick (CAR)

CAR

Montembeault, Samuel

Additional Details:

Cheap backup

Buyouts

Karl Alzner: $833,333
Joel Armia: $33,333

Retained Salary Transactions

Mike Hoffman: $2,250,000 (50%)
Joel Edmundson: $1,750,000 (200%)

Buried

Jake Evans: $550,000 ($1,700,000)

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	$84,000,000	$70,340,832	$1,170,000	$4,195,000	$13,659,168

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Caufield, Cole $6,250,000$6,250,000 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	Gurianov, Denis $3,000,000$3,000,000 RW, LW UFA - 1
Harvey-Pinard, Rafaël $950,000$950,000 LW, RW RFA - 2	Dvorak, Christian $4,450,000$4,450,000 C M-NTC UFA - 2
Pitlick, Rem $1,100,000$1,100,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Brassard, Derick $775,000$775,000 C, LW UFA	Gallagher, Brendan $6,500,000$6,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 4
		Ylönen, Jesse $900,000$900,000 RW, LW RFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Guhle, Kaiden $863,333$863,333 ($420,000$420K) LD/RD RFA - 2	Savard, David $3,500,000$3,500,000 RD UFA - 2	Allen, Jake $1,925,000$1,925,000 G M-NTC UFA - 2
Matheson, Michael $4,875,000$4,875,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 3	Ceci, Cody $3,250,000$3,250,000 RD UFA - 2	Blackwood, Mackenzie $3,000,000$3,000,000 G UFA - 2
Xhekaj, Arber $828,333$828,333 LD/RD RFA - 1	Barron, Justin $925,000$925,000 ($275,000$275K) RD RFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Harris, Jordan $1,400,000$1,400,000 LD/RD RFA - 2		Price, Carey $10,500,000$10,500,000 G NMC UFA - 3
Toninato, Dominic $775,000$775,000 C, LW UFA - 2
Richard, Anthony $800,000$800,000 LW, RW UFA - 1

Top Comments

Mar. 6, 2023 at 8:28 p.m.

Suzuki_Cup

Joined: Mar. 2020

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My personnal targets for the draft

#5 (top4 is pretty obvious) : Will Smith (2nd option: Benson)
#12 : Sandin-Pelikka (2nd option: Ryan Leonard) I really feel like Reinbacher will be our pick though.

Would be amazing getting Hrabal in the 2nd round

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Mar. 6, 2023 at 8:32 p.m.

Just_A_Guess

Joined: Apr. 2021

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Quoting: Suzuki_Cup

We should trade our 2nd and 3rd for the 1st that TOR has to make sure we get Hrabal imo.

Mar. 6, 2023 at 8:34 p.m.

Suzuki_Cup

Joined: Mar. 2020

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Quoting: Just_A_Guess

We should trade our 2nd and 3rd for the 1st that TOR has to make sure we get Hrabal imo.

We could. If our 2nd round pick is around 38th ovr, shouldn't cost a 3rd to move up 6 spots. Luckily, we have 3 4th round picks.

Mar. 6, 2023 at 8:48 p.m.

Just_A_Guess

Joined: Apr. 2021

Posts: 4,960

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Quoting: Suzuki_Cup

We could. If our 2nd round pick is around 38th ovr, shouldn't cost a 3rd to move up 6 spots. Luckily, we have 3 4th round picks.

However we need to do it, let's get it done.

Mar. 6, 2023 at 9:03 p.m.

KDev

Joined: Jun. 2022

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Likes: 689

Devils can literally resign Graves or go for any FA that are pretty much all better than Edmunson. If it was a straight swap, Blackwood for Edmunson, now I think that can be considered

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