Bedard Fast Rebuild

Created by: Shanesaw9

Team: 2023-24 Montreal Canadiens

Initial Creation Date: Apr. 30, 2023

Published: May 4, 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

Habs win the lottery in back to back seasons with their 8.5% chance and draft Connor Bedard.

This encourages Hughes to trade and sign Dubois now, rather than later.

The additions of Bedard and Dubois sell Killorn on the idea of playing for his hometown habs after TB cannot afford him, he becomes a veteran leader for MTL's group. Hoffman is bought out to make room for Killorn.

Lastly, MTL adds a RHD and someone to help the powerplay, moving Edmundson and Harris in the process.

If Bedard plays wing instead:
Caufield - Suzuki - Dach
Killorn - Dubois - Bedard

Or if they want to load up an offensive line and a defensive line:
Caufield - Dubois - Bedard
Killorn - Suzuki - Dach

As Slafkovsky develops and Killorn declines with age they will swap roles in the top 6.

Regarding the salary cap moving forward, Forbes and CapFriendly projects $87.5 - $88M in 2024-25 and $92M in 2025-26 as the player's escrow will be paid, ending the flat cap.

Toronto was able to allocate $40.5M to their top 4 forwards (49% of $81.5M). If MTL uses 49% on their top 6 in 2025-26 that projects to $45.7M. Caufield / Dubois / Suzuki account for $23.75M, that leaves $21.95M to sign Bedard, Dach, and Slafkovsky (who is likely a longer term project and would probably bridge at around $3.5M - so likely $18.45M for Bedard & Dach). That's accounting for 6 players instead of 4 like the leafs did... so there would still be more wiggle room if necessary, easily another $2M. Although challenging, the cap would be manageable.

WPG TRADE
- Generally agreed it will be Dvorak, 17th Overall, and a prospect like Kidney. I'm trying Armia + Gurianov's rights instead of Dvorak here. If WPG needs Dvorak thats fine, habs take a chance and sign Monahan cheap. If FLA beats the leafs and the pick becomes 29th, then the habs would trade their 2024 1st Top 10 protected instead.

BUF TRADE
- Based off a Buffalo fan's post. Habs could keep Edmundson if I'm wrong and he is untradeable, but I think he's gone.

LAK TRADE
- LA has a surplus of RHD, Durzi will be available. Not sure if they would want Harris or not, but the idea here is Durzi in Harris out - don't get hung up on trade value (Harris could go anywhere too it doesn't have to be LA). Habs could also keep Harris and rotate their young D in Laval until there is an injury.

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST		YEARS	CAP HIT
Nissen Dichow, Frederik		3	$775,000

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Beaudin, Nicolas	2	$775,000
Caufield, Cole	8	$7,750,000
Harvey-Pinard, Rafaël	2	$1,200,000
Pezzetta, Michael	2	$1,000,000
Teasdale, Joël	2	$775,000
Dubois, Pierre-Luc	8	$8,125,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Belzile, Alex	2	$950,000
Richard, Anthony	1	$775,000
Killorn, Alex	3	$6,000,000

CREATED		YEARS	CAP HIT
Bedard, Connor		3	$950,000
Overages, Bonus		1	$1,170,000

Trades

MTL

Dubois, Pierre-Luc [RFA Rights]

WPG

Armia, Joel
Gurianov, Denis [RFA Rights]
Kidney, Riley
2023 1st round pick (FLA)

MTL

Nadeau, Olivier
2023 2nd round pick (BUF)

BUF

Edmundson, Joel ($1,750,000 retained)
Tuch, Luke [Reserve List]

Retained Salary Transactions

Joel Edmundson: $1,750,000 (200%)

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

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

EMBED

TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
24	$83,500,000	$78,785,833	$1,170,000	$4,195,000	$4,714,167

Roster

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Killorn, Alex $6,000,000$6,000,000 RW, LW UFA - 4	Suzuki, Nick $7,875,000$7,875,000 C UFA - 7	Caufield, Cole $7,750,000$7,750,000 LW, RW UFA - 8
Dubois, Pierre-Luc $8,125,000$8,125,000 C UFA - 8	Bedard, Connor $950,000$950,000	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	Dvorak, Christian $4,450,000$4,450,000 C M-NTC UFA - 2	Anderson, Josh $5,500,000$5,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 4
Harvey-Pinard, Rafaël $1,200,000$1,200,000 LW, RW RFA - 2	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 $1,000,000$1,000,000 LW, RW UFA - 2	Belzile, Alex $950,000$950,000 C, RW UFA - 2

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Matheson, Michael $4,875,000$4,875,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 3	Barron, Justin $925,000$925,000 ($275,000$275K) RD RFA - 1	Montembeault, Samuel $1,000,000$1,000,000 G UFA - 1
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
Xhekaj, Arber $828,333$828,333 LD/RD RFA - 1	Durzi, Sean $1,700,000$1,700,000 LD/RD RFA - 1
	Kovacevic, Johnathan $766,667$766,667 RD UFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Overages, Bonus $1,170,000$1,170,000		Price, Carey $10,500,000$10,500,000 G NMC UFA - 3

Taxi Squad
Beck, Owen $885,000$885,000 ($0$0$0$0) ($80,000$80K) C RFA - 3
Mesar, Filip $918,333$918,333 ($0$0$0$0) RW, C RFA - 3

Special Teams

Power Play 1
Suzuki, N.		Dubois, P.		Bedard, C.
	Caufield, C.		Matheson, M.

Power Play 2
Killorn, A.		Dach, K.		Dvorak, C.
	Durzi, S.		Slafkovsky, J.

Penalty Kill 1
	Killorn, A.	Suzuki, N.
	Guhle, K.	Savard, D.

Penalty Kill 2
	Harvey-Pinard, R.	Evans, J.
	Matheson, M.	Barron, J.

Top Comments

May 4, 2023 at 7:10 p.m.

Stadel

Joined: Jun. 2015

Posts: 3,339

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Im sorry but which goofy sabres fan is trading a good forward prospect and a 2nd to add another lefty whose reputation far exceeds his actual value?

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May 4, 2023 at 7:16 p.m.

OldNYIfan

Once a Kings Fan Too

Joined: Jun. 2018

Posts: 40,476

Likes: 25,375

Sean Durzi for Jordan Harris is a perfectly acceptable framework. I think that Montreal would have to add, but as you say, let's not get hung up on trade value. It's a valid and conceivable exchange.

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May 4, 2023 at 7:20 p.m.

Shanesaw9

Habs 2010

Joined: May 2020

Posts: 1,548

Likes: 974

Quoting: Stadel

Im sorry but which goofy sabres fan is trading a good forward prospect and a 2nd to add another lefty whose reputation far exceeds his actual value?

One that wanted tough guys haha, Edmundson retained might be close to a 2nd, sure Buffalo is trading Nadeau but they are also getting Luke Tuch back, gonna be interesting to see if the Tuch bro's get to play on a line together at the world cup

Edmundson can stay in MTL if there is no market for him, like I said, I'm just assuming the habs will try to move him.

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May 4, 2023 at 7:22 p.m.

Stadel

Joined: Jun. 2015

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Quoting: Shanesaw9

All Sabres ACGMs are the absolute worst. Including my own. Edmundson isn't right for the Sabres, I assume someone will deal for him though.

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May 4, 2023 at 8:16 p.m.

ohmyjlord

Joined: Sep. 2017

Posts: 611

Likes: 498

Liking this !

I'm againt dealing FLA's pick (assuming it stays at #17) in a Dubois trade in general, but if we get to keep Dvorak and can get rid of Armia instead, I'm up for it. I'm still not sold on the idea of bringing in Killorn though. I fear his next contract might be too much, too long. Plus, RHP actually reminds me of a younger (and a lot cheaper) Killorn in some ways. Guess you can't really be mad about acquiring a good asset for free, as a UFA...but I wonder if that $6.0m couldn't be invested in a younger player, via trade. Like a Boeser or something. I get what you're going for though, as Boeser and Killorn aren't the same type of player at all.

What would be your plan for goaltender in this scenario ?

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