Difficult season nex year

Created by: Ste_Catherine_Street

Team: 2023-24 Montreal Canadiens

Initial Creation Date: Apr. 12, 2023

Published: Apr. 12, 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

This team's factors to address:

1-Lack of starpower. Suzuki/Dach/Caufield are great players, but even when healthy they won't provide enough scoring (because the rest of the team won't score).

2-Defense. Mattheson (who has played very well), and Guhle are the only top4 Dman currently on this team. Harris/Xhekaj/Barron need to find their places on top 4 or become expendable. I KNOW they were only rookies this year, all I am saying is this team can't wait more than 1-2 yrs to find two more top4. Also, find some dmen who can play on PP, PPlease!

3-Tending. Who/what is this team's medium or long-term 'tender plan? No one right now. Habs need to find someone who can play while Suzuki/Caufield/Dach are in their prime.

4-Prospects. a) for the love of gawd stop overhyping and rushing prospects. b) logjam of prospects on D and Wing. Not a bad thing, but can't impede their growth.

Even IF Habs stay healthy next year (assuming they dont draft Bedard), they'll be in the 25-30 range again. Maybe 20-25 if Caufield scores 50. Either way, management needs to address these problems.

Buyouts: Armia summer 24, Gallagher summer 25/26

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Caufield, Cole	8	$8,500,000
Harvey-Pinard, Rafaël	2	$1,350,000
Gurianov, Denis	2	$2,500,000
Ylönen, Jesse	2	$900,000

Trades

MTL

Rönni, Topi [Reserve List]

CGY

Edmundson, Joel
Teasdale, Joël [RFA Rights]

MTL

2024 7th round pick (ANA)

ANA

Wideman, Chris

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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TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
22	$83,500,000	$69,724,166	$1,170,000	$695,000	$13,775,834

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Caufield, Cole $8,500,000$8,500,000 LW, RW UFA - 8	Suzuki, Nick $7,875,000$7,875,000 C UFA - 7	Gallagher, Brendan $6,500,000$6,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 4
Hoffman, Mike $4,500,000$4,500,000 LW UFA - 1	Dach, Kirby $3,362,500$3,362,500 C, RW RFA - 3	Anderson, Josh $5,500,000$5,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 4
Harvey-Pinard, Rafaël $1,350,000$1,350,000 LW, RW RFA - 2	Dvorak, Christian $4,450,000$4,450,000 C M-NTC UFA - 2	Gurianov, Denis $2,500,000$2,500,000 RW, LW UFA - 1
Armia, Joel $3,400,000$3,400,000 RW, LW UFA - 2	Evans, Jake $1,700,000$1,700,000 C UFA - 2	Ylönen, Jesse $900,000$900,000 RW, LW RFA - 1
	Pitlick, Rem $1,100,000$1,100,000 LW, RW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Matheson, Michael $4,875,000$4,875,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 3	Savard, David $3,500,000$3,500,000 RD UFA - 2	Allen, Jake $1,925,000$1,925,000 G M-NTC 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	Montembeault, Samuel $1,000,000$1,000,000 G UFA - 1
Xhekaj, Arber $828,333$828,333 LD/RD RFA - 1	Harris, Jordan $1,400,000$1,400,000 LD/RD RFA - 2
	Kovacevic, Johnathan $766,667$766,667 RD UFA - 2

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

Top Comments

Apr. 12, 2023 at 9:12 a.m.

Gmonwy

GO FLAMES GO

Joined: Sep. 2020

Posts: 18,414

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Flames decline due to cap. They have 300k t9 sign 3-5 players

Apr. 12, 2023 at 9:17 a.m.

Ste_Catherine_Street

Joined: Jun. 2019

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Quoting: Gmonwy

Flames decline due to cap. They have 300k t9 sign 3-5 players

Ok, well any comparable team/value really.

Apr. 12, 2023 at 9:51 a.m.

AlakHul

Darkblade

Joined: Dec. 2021

Posts: 786

Likes: 397

Hutson and Barron are top 4, only after a few years of development. The goalie could be Hrabal or Bjarnason too. or a goalie that would be made available, like Hart?
Top 6 pick this year and maybe a move for a young player thats already in nhl with the panther's first.
Habs just need another top dman (24draft is stacked with dmen supposedly), a top 10 pick in that draft would be really good, the top 3 is also really good, Kivi, Celebrini and Eiserman.

Apr. 12, 2023 at 10:30 a.m.

danielcoe

Joined: Jun. 2018

Posts: 1,258

Likes: 283

wow i really dont agree with your view on the habs talent levels and where they will finish next year. Are you ever off and seeing the glass as half empty. With no additions the habs will not finish in the top 10 worst teams as they wont have the injuries again like this year and some of those young players will keep improving and more of the deadwood like byron drouin hoffman and maybe even Armia will be gone replace by HLP and Ylonen and maybe Roy or Beck and the other prospects giving us the best laval team in years with Farrell and Struble and Mesar and Heinemann and others. And beck or armia might be in laval too. When you add this all up and maybe add bedard and dubois and you dont think we will be much better? That is just the most ridiculous thing i have heard this week.

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Apr. 12, 2023 at 10:35 a.m.

danielcoe

Joined: Jun. 2018

Posts: 1,258

Likes: 283

Quoting: AlakHul

top 10next year be hard as i think the habs will battle for a playoff spot and probably fall short and finish between 12-15 worst overall... Too many good young players with loads of upside and now we have HLP and Ylonen who have shown that they are ready so we no longer need Hoffman or Armia and those 2 players are much better than those other 2. Plus Caufield is going explode next year like he was doing this year and Dach will be better too.. imagine if we add dubois as well. so solid and not to mention that none of our defenseman will be rookies

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