Cap dump and moving up in the draft

Created by: KentMcNally

Team: 2023-24 Montreal Canadiens

Initial Creation Date: Jun. 1, 2023

Published: Jun. 1, 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

Montreal jumps to #14 AND leaves some decent cap space ($6.5M) to pick up another cap dump from a playoff team at the trade deadline in order to get another late first round pick in 2024 (which would help with the loss of some of Montreal's 2nd and 3rd round picks in the trades below).
This team finishes out of the playoffs and gets a lottery pick next year for sure.

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Caufield, Cole	7	$8,000,000
Harvey-Pinard, Rafaël	3	$2,500,000
Ylönen, Jesse	3	$1,750,000
Pezzetta, Michael	3	$1,500,000
Gurianov, Denis	2	$1,900,000

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Klingberg, John		1	$3,000,000

Trades

MTL

Murray, Matt
2023 1st round pick (BOS)

TOR

Dvorak, Christian ($1,450,000 retained)
2023 3rd round pick (MTL)

MTL

2025 3rd round pick (OTT)

OTT

Edmundson, Joel
2025 2nd round pick (MTL)

MTL

Granlund, Mikael
2023 1st round pick (PIT)

PIT

Kidney, Riley
2023 1st round pick (FLA)
2023 1st round pick (BOS)

MTL

2023 4th round pick (TOR)

NSH

Armia, Joel ($1,200,000 retained)
2023 4th round pick (PIT)
2023 4th round pick (VGK)
2024 3rd round pick (MTL)

MTL

2023 5th round pick (BUF)

BUF

Allen, Jake
Evans, Jake
Kovacevic, Johnathan
2024 2nd round pick (COL)
2025 3rd round pick (MTL)

Buyouts

Karl Alzner: $833,333

Retained Salary Transactions

Christian Dvorak: $1,450,000 (32.58%)
Joel Armia: $1,200,000 (35.29%)

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
23	$83,500,000	$76,932,499	$1,170,000	$4,195,000	$6,567,501

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Caufield, Cole $8,000,000$8,000,000 LW, RW UFA - 8	Suzuki, Nick $7,875,000$7,875,000 C UFA - 7	Slafkovsky, Juraj $950,000$950,000 ($3,500,000$4M) RW, LW RFA - 2
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 $2,500,000$2,500,000 LW, RW RFA - 2	Granlund, Mikael $5,000,000$5,000,000 C, RW UFA - 2	Gallagher, Brendan $6,500,000$6,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 4
Pezzetta, Michael $1,500,000$1,500,000 LW, RW UFA - 2	Pitlick, Rem $1,100,000$1,100,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Ylönen, Jesse $1,750,000$1,750,000 RW, LW RFA - 1
		Gurianov, Denis $1,900,000$1,900,000 RW, LW 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	Montembeault, Samuel $1,000,000$1,000,000 G UFA - 1
Harris, Jordan $1,400,000$1,400,000 LD/RD RFA - 2	Barron, Justin $925,000$925,000 ($275,000$275K) RD RFA - 1	Murray, Matt $4,687,500$4,687,500 G M-NTC UFA - 1
Guhle, Kaiden $863,333$863,333 ($420,000$420K) LD/RD RFA - 2	Xhekaj, Arber $828,333$828,333 LD/RD RFA - 1
Klingberg, John $3,000,000$3,000,000 RD UFA - 1	Wideman, Chris $762,500$762,500 RD UFA - 1

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

Top Comments

Jun. 1, 2023 at 10:08 a.m.

Leafsfan98

Leafs going to Leafs

Joined: Dec. 2022

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Edited Jun. 1, 2023 at 10:17 a.m.

No thanks, Leafs would rather buy Murray out and save the 1st/not having to take on Dvorak

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Jun. 1, 2023 at 10:09 a.m.

OkMan

Joined: Jul. 2021

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Likes: 1,571

I don’t think anyone wants to help you out with that Joel Armia problem. You’re stuck with him now lmao. Best just to accept it

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Jun. 1, 2023 at 10:11 a.m.

littlejerryseinfeld

Joined: Nov. 2017

Posts: 28,053

Likes: 14,666

What is Buffalo supposed to do with those 3 players? We already have 8 defensemen and 3 goalies on our 23 man roster

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Jun. 1, 2023 at 10:16 a.m.

KentMcNally

Fall River Habs

Joined: Aug. 2021

Posts: 895

Likes: 338

Edited Jun. 1, 2023 at 10:24 a.m.

Quoting: OkMan

I don’t think anyone wants to help you out with that Joel Armia problem. You’re stuck with him now lmao. Best just to accept it

Maybe so. I just know that Nashville loves their Finnish and Swedish players. (Plus Armia is only costing Nashville $2.2M, not the full salary).

Maybe we could trade him to the Finnish National team, where Armia always lights it up..... and then he returns to Montreal and returns to being Habs Joel Armia.

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Jun. 1, 2023 at 10:19 a.m.

KentMcNally

Fall River Habs

Joined: Aug. 2021

Posts: 895

Likes: 338

Quoting: littlejerryseinfeld

What is Buffalo supposed to do with those 3 players? We already have 8 defensemen and 3 goalies on our 23 man roster

I thought that Allen could be insurance for the young goalies and Evans is a good 4th line guy.

Kovacevic can bounce between the AHL and NHL on a "as needed" basis.

Buffalo giving up a 5th rounder (unlikely to ever play in the league) and getting NHL players + a second round pick (given the cap space the Sabres have) does not seem atrocious to me.

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