What could of been

Created by: Aaron_Dell_Pickle

Team: 2022-23 Montreal Canadiens

Initial Creation Date: Apr. 12, 2023

Published: Apr. 12, 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

Rumors came out a couple of years ago that during the 2016 NHL draft, Habs were to trade Subban to the Oilers in exchange of Draisaitl and the 4 overall selection. Bergevin wanted to draft Dubois with that pick, but when he was drafted 1 spot earlier by Columbus, the trade was cancelled.
Whoever was the GM never trade Mcdonagh for Scott Gomez
Bergevin never trade Sergachev for Douin
Bergevin never draft Kotkaniemi ahead of Tkachuk
Bergevin never trades the pick used to draft Debrincat for Andrew Shaw
Bergevin drafts Forsberg instead of Galchenyuk
Price Never gets career injuries

I know its a much harder job than that to be a GM and he never could of knew how bad these moves would turn out but just to look back for fun

Trades

MTL

Draisaitl, Leon

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Part of the rumored Subban trade at the 2016

EDM

Tierney, Chris

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Never acquiered

MTL

Dubois, Pierre-Luc

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Part of the rumored Subban trade at the 2016 draft

WPG

Gurianov, Denis

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Never acquiered

MTL

McDonagh, Ryan

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Never traded for Scott Gomez

NSH

Hoffman, Mike

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Never signed

MTL

Sergachev, Mikhail

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Never traded for Drouin (I will never forgive you Marc Bergevin)

TBL

Drouin, Jonathan

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Never acquiered

MTL

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Draft Tkachuk with the 3rd overall in 2018
Never trade the debrincat pick for Andrew Shaw

OTT

Armia, Joel

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Walks in FA in 2021

MTL

Lehkonen, Artturi

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Never traded

COL

MTL

Forsberg, Filip

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Drafted 3rd overall at 2012 Draft

NSH

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Never drafted cause we were too good

MTL

2025 7th round pick (ARI)

ARI

Anderson, Josh

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Gone cause he was in the Galchenyuk trade tree

Buyouts

Karl Alzner: $833,333

Retained Salary Transactions

Evgeni Dadonov: $2,500,000 (50%)
Nick Bonino: $1,025,000 (50%)

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
24	$82,500,000	$104,890,713	$1,132,500	$927,500	-$22,390,713

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Draisaitl, Leon $8,500,000$8,500,000 C, LW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 3	Suzuki, Nick $7,875,000$7,875,000 C UFA - 8	DeBrincat, Alex $6,400,000$6,400,000 LW, RW UFA - 1
Tkachuk, Brady $8,205,714$8,205,714 LW UFA - 6	Dubois, Pierre-Luc $6,000,000$6,000,000 C UFA - 1	Forsberg, Filip $8,500,000$8,500,000 LW NMC UFA - 8
Lehkonen, Artturi $4,500,000$4,500,000 LW, RW UFA - 5	Dach, Kirby $3,362,500$3,362,500 C, RW RFA - 4	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	Evans, Jake $1,700,000$1,700,000 C UFA - 3	Ylönen, Jesse $880,833$880,833 RW, LW RFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
McDonagh, Ryan $6,750,000$6,750,000 LD NTC UFA - 4	Sergachev, Mikhail $4,800,000$4,800,000 LD/RD UFA - 1	Price, Carey $10,500,000$10,500,000 G NMC UFA - 4
Matheson, Michael $4,875,000$4,875,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 4	Savard, David $3,500,000$3,500,000 RD UFA - 3	Montembeault, Samuel $1,000,000$1,000,000 G UFA - 2
Xhekaj, Arber $828,333$828,333 LD/RD RFA - 2	Guhle, Kaiden $863,333$863,333 ($420,000$420K) LD/RD RFA - 3
Harris, Jordan $842,500$842,500 ($507,500$508K) LD/RD RFA - 1	Kovacevic, Johnathan $766,667$766,667 RD UFA - 3

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Belzile, Alex $750,000$750,000 C, RW UFA - 1		Monahan, Sean $6,375,000$6,375,000 C, LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 1
Teasdale, Joël $750,000$750,000 RW, LW UFA - 1		Byron, Paul $3,400,000$3,400,000 LW, RW UFA - 1
		Allen, Jake $2,875,000$2,875,000 G UFA - 1

Top Comments

Apr. 12, 2023 at 11:14 a.m.

drambui

Joined: Feb. 2022

Posts: 3,821

Likes: 2,509

the 9th overall pick was going the other way too so no sergachev.

Anddddddd im sure that hall was the one going to be traded and not drai.

But we will never know for sure.

Apr. 12, 2023 at 11:15 a.m.

BadaBing

Go Habs Go

Joined: Oct. 2021

Posts: 1,974

Likes: 466

It would never have happened because you are $22M over the Cap

Apr. 12, 2023 at 11:29 a.m.

Boltsbeathabs

Joined: Jul. 2021

Posts: 6,704

Likes: 2,524

So, you would have traded Subban to both Winnipeg and Edmonton🙄. And never made a single mistake!! oy vie!! Got to love these with hindsight I'm sooo much smarter than the team posts!!

Apr. 12, 2023 at 11:31 a.m.

dannibalcorpse

we miss leo k

Joined: Feb. 2018

Posts: 5,973

Likes: 5,107

Quoting: Boltsbeathabs

So, you would have traded Subban to both Winnipeg and Edmonton🙄. And never made a single mistake!! oy vie!!

I think they're saying the Subban trade was rumored to be Draisaitl & Edmonton's pick in that draft, which would have been PLD. Insane to think that Bergevin would've turned down Drai & #4OA for Subban just because Dubois was off the board, though - as good as PK was, that's just such an incredible overpay we'd *still* be harping on it 7 years later if it came to pass.

Apr. 12, 2023 at 11:38 a.m.

Aaron_Dell_Pickle

Tony Ferguson Fan

Joined: May 2022

Posts: 547

Likes: 348

Quoting: Boltsbeathabs

So, you would have traded Subban to both Winnipeg and Edmonton🙄. And never made a single mistake!! oy vie!! Got to love these with hindsight I'm sooo much smarter than the team posts!!

@Boltsbeathabs when he sees people having fun by looking back at a GM's moves:

Honestly I dont know why you're getting so pissed for nothing, I litterally said in the description: ''I know its a much harder job than that to be a GM and he never could of knew how bad these moves would turn out but just to look back for fun''. Oy vie!!

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