In Kent we trust - 2023 Offseason

Created by: TheRealisticGuy

Team: 2023-24 Montreal Canadiens

Initial Creation Date: Jun. 29, 2023

Published: Jun. 29, 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

After the draft, thoughts :

#5 : David Reinbacher RHD : Good pick, but I would have take Matvei Michkov over David Reinbacher. MTL need help on the top 6 and Michkov potential was too big to pass on IMO. Anyway, David Reinbacher will be a real solid defenseman, will log a tons of minutes next to Lane Hutson or Kaiden Guhle in the future

#69 : Jacob Fowler G : Great pick, in my book he is a top 5 goalie in the draft with the likes of Hrabal, Bjarnsson, Gajan & Augustine. Happy with this pick

#101 : Florian Xhekaj LW : Horrible pick. Nice story, just way too early

#110 : Bogdan Konyushkov RHD : Overager who put up 25 points (I think) in the KHL and finished top 3 in rookie of the year in the KHL. So I'm OK with this pick even tho he is 20 yo

#128 : Quentin Miller G : Meh, don't know much

#133 : Samuel Harris LW : Bad pick IMO, overager not doing anything special. But hey, let's wait

#144 : Yevgeni Volokhin G : I like this pick, another goalie but was great in the MHL

#165 : Filip Eriksson C : Nothing to say

#197 : Luke Mittelstadt LHD : I like this pick, I had him in the 3rd round

Now that the draft is done, I think one of Edmundson, Hoffman, Dvorak or Armia will be moved. We will see. If not, not a big deal.

Laval Rocket lines after MTL waive Rem Pitlick, Alex Belzile & Chris Wideman (RHP is still waivers exempt)

RHP-Belzile-Roy
Farrell-Kidney-Pitlick
Heineman-Gignac-Simoneau
Condotta-Mysak-Teasdale
P-Jones
McKay

Trudeau-Beaudin
Struble-Wideman
Norlinder-Mailloux
Galipeau
Tourigny

Primeau
Dobes

I could see MTL bringing back Anthony Richard & Gabriel Bourque

IMO Reinbacher will go back in the SL for one year, but I wouldn't be surprise if he starts in the AHL. Owen Beck fight for a roster spot in training camp, if he doesn't crack the lineup, he goes back in the OHL. Mesar will either go back in the OHL or start in the AHL

I left Edmundson on the IR because of his back problems

I expect MTL to be a bottom 10 team again next year

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST		YEARS	CAP HIT
Reinbacher, David		3	$950,000

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Newhook, Alex	3	$3,000,000
Harvey-Pinard, Rafaël	2	$825,000
Ylönen, Jesse	2	$825,000
Beaudin, Nicolas	1	$775,000
Teasdale, Joël	1	$775,000
Condotta, Lucas	1	$775,000

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Belzile, Alex		2	$800,000

Buyouts

Karl Alzner: $833,333

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2024
2025
2026

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$83,500,000	$71,671,666	$1,170,000	$4,210,000	$11,828,334

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Caufield, Cole $7,850,000$7,850,000 LW, RW UFA - 8	Suzuki, Nick $7,875,000$7,875,000 C UFA - 7	Dach, Kirby $3,362,500$3,362,500 C, RW RFA - 3
Newhook, Alex $3,000,000$3,000,000 C, LW RFA - 4	Monahan, Sean $1,985,000$1,985,000 ($15,000$15K) C, LW, RW UFA - 1	Anderson, Josh $5,500,000$5,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 4
Hoffman, Mike $4,500,000$4,500,000 LW UFA - 1	Dvorak, Christian $4,450,000$4,450,000 C M-NTC UFA - 2	Gallagher, Brendan $6,500,000$6,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 4
Slafkovsky, Juraj $950,000$950,000 ($3,500,000$4M) RW, LW RFA - 2	Evans, Jake $1,700,000$1,700,000 C UFA - 2	Armia, Joel $3,400,000$3,400,000 RW, LW UFA - 2

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	Montembeault, Samuel $1,000,000$1,000,000 G UFA - 1
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	Allen, Jake $1,925,000$1,925,000 G M-NTC UFA - 2
Xhekaj, Arber $828,333$828,333 LD/RD RFA - 1	Harris, Jordan $1,400,000$1,400,000 LD/RD RFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Ylönen, Jesse $825,000$825,000 RW, LW RFA - 1	Edmundson, Joel $875,000$875,000 LD/RD M-NTC UFA - 1	Price, Carey $10,500,000$10,500,000 G NMC UFA - 3
Pezzetta, Michael $812,500$812,500 LW, RW UFA - 2
Kovacevic, Johnathan $766,667$766,667 RD UFA - 2

Taxi Squad
Reinbacher, David $950,000$950,000 ($0$0$0$0) RD RFA - 3
Mesar, Filip $918,333$918,333 ($0$0$0$0) RW, C RFA - 3
Beck, Owen $885,000$885,000 ($0$0$0$0) ($80,000$80K) C RFA - 3

Top Comments

Jun. 29, 2023 at 3:51 p.m.

drambui

Joined: Feb. 2022

Posts: 3,842

Likes: 2,515

i'll bet rhp starts in the big league. at worst someone is injured and he'll have a spot.

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Jun. 29, 2023 at 3:51 p.m.

Campabee

Joined: Nov. 2018

Posts: 15,628

Likes: 6,499

The thing with Michkov is he supposedly told teams he wouldn't sign with more than a handful and would just stay in Russia if they drafted him. Picking him would have really wasted a pick

Jun. 29, 2023 at 3:55 p.m.

A_321_EGAKROD

Joined: May 2023

Posts: 35

Likes: 20

4th line minutes will bury Slaf, and RHP is too good for the AHL tbh, I'd move Hoffman and use RHP in the NHL

Jun. 29, 2023 at 4:00 p.m.

Billy739

Joined: Dec. 2017

Posts: 6,590

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Florian Xhekaj was the one pick i was excited about
Agreed way too early that said Power Forwards like him went early
Danil But went 12th OA where most of the Pro Analysts had him 22-48th OA(2 people had him top 20 but it was the 2 that were way off overall in their 1st round predictions.)

My point i guess is his brother didnt break out till he packed on muscle and filled out his massive frame adding a couple inches.(thats when MTL called him)
Florian is 2 years younger than Arber was when we found him and as such is there's 52lbs of muscle difference between the brothers.

Arber's Draft Profile has him at 6'1 and 180lbs
Florian at his age is 6'2 176lbs
Expect a Growth spurt and Mama Xhekaj to be lighting up twitter extatic right now

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Jun. 29, 2023 at 4:01 p.m.

TheRealisticGuy

Habs4Ever

Joined: May 2022

Posts: 4,297

Likes: 1,737

Quoting: drambui

i'll bet rhp starts in the big league. at worst someone is injured and he'll have a spot.

Quoting: A_321_EGAKROD

4th line minutes will bury Slaf, and RHP is too good for the AHL tbh, I'd move Hoffman and use RHP in the NHL

Guys I just went the most realistically, but yes during training camp + preseason games, some players get injured. So I am not worried with Harvey-Pinard, but in a world where everyone comes out healthy, him and Barron not having to go through waivers, they are prime candidate to be sent down.
Slafkovsky played a lot on the 4th line last year, I don't like it but management think this is better than being in the AHL
Moving Hoffman isn't easy, we all hate him but he plays nonetheless

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