Montreal Canadiens in 2025-2026

Created by: TheRealisticGuy

Team: 2025-26 Montreal Canadiens

Initial Creation Date: Jul. 27, 2023

Published: Jul. 27, 2023

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

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Waivers Exempt

Right Handed

Position

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Max Perf. Bonus

Expiry Status

Term Remaining

McDavid, Connor

$12,500,000 ( Performance Bonus

$250,000)

NMC

UFA - 5

Description

I expect MTL to finish bottom 10 in 2023
My early ranking for MTL :
#1 : Macklin Celebrini
#2 : Cole Eiserman
#3 : Ivan Demidov
#4 : Artyom Levshunov
#5 : Aron Kiviharju
#6 : Sam Dickinson
#7 : Adam Jiricek
#8 : Konsta Helenius
#9 : Berkly Catton
#10 : Cole Hutson

I don't expect MTL to draft top 5 tho
Closer to 10th than 5th

I think they will go forward, so either Konsta Helenius or Berkly Catton

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Prospects who requires waivers in 2025-2026 : Emil Heineman, Sean Farrell, William Trudeau, Jan Mysak. I don't think the last one will be claimed, but MTL can't risk the other 3 mentioned above.

Prospects who requires waivers in 2026-2027 : Joshua Roy, Riley Kidney, Logan Mailloux & Jayden Struble. Lane Hutson will require waivers as well if he signs a contract at the end of the 2023-2024 season (which I expect). For that reason, I have a couple prospects like Roy & Mailloux still in the AHL developing.

Quick lines in Laval :

Simoneau-Mesar-Roy
Tuch-Kidney-Helenius
Guindon-Kapanen-P.Jones
Xhekaj-Mysak-?

Hutson-Mailloux
Struble-Engstrom
?-?

Fowler
?

My top 5 prospects :

#1 : Lane Hutson
#2 : David Reinbacher
#3 : Owen Beck
#4 : Joshua Roy
#5 : Logan Mailloux

I know there will be a lot of movement, but MTL are still in a critical situation in 2025-2026

Tampa & Boston might regress by then, but too many teams ahead of MTL right now, like BUF, TOR, OTT & we will see with TB FLO & DET

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST	YEARS	CAP HIT
Hutson, Lane	1	$950,000
Fowler, Jacob	3	$925,000
Engström, Adam	2	$897,500
Kapanen, Oliver	3	$836,667
Guindon, Cedrick	2	$828,333
Xhekaj, Florian	3	$828,333
Tuch, Luke	1	$800,000

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Guhle, Kaiden	8	$5,500,000
Slafkovsky, Juraj	8	$5,500,000
Harris, Jordan	2	$3,000,000
Harvey-Pinard, Rafaël	1	$2,500,000
Barron, Justin	1	$1,700,000
Xhekaj, Arber	1	$1,400,000
Ylönen, Jesse	1	$1,500,000
Heineman, Emil	2	$1,100,000
Dobes, Jakub	3	$1,050,000
Trudeau, William	1	$874,125
Farrell, Sean	1	$874,125
Struble, Jayden	2	$805,000
Simoneau, Xavier	1	$800,000
Mysak, Jan	1	$800,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Montembeault, Samuel	1	$3,000,000
Evans, Jake	2	$2,000,000
Kovacevic, Johnathan	2	$1,500,000

CREATED		YEARS	CAP HIT
Helenius, Konsta		3	$950,000
Parker-Jones, John		2	$828,333

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	$86,500,000	$72,195,750	$0	$1,500,000	$14,304,250

Roster

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Slafkovsky, Juraj $5,500,000$5,500,000 RW, LW RFA	Suzuki, Nick $7,875,000$7,875,000 C UFA - 5	Caufield, Cole $7,850,000$7,850,000 LW, RW UFA - 6
Newhook, Alex $2,900,000$2,900,000 C, LW RFA - 2	Dach, Kirby $3,362,500$3,362,500 C, RW RFA - 1	Anderson, Josh $5,500,000$5,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 2
Harvey-Pinard, Rafaël $2,500,000$2,500,000 LW, RW RFA	Beck, Owen $885,000$885,000 C RFA - 1	Gallagher, Brendan $6,500,000$6,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 2
Heineman, Emil $1,100,000$1,100,000 LW, RW RFA	Evans, Jake $2,000,000$2,000,000 C UFA	Ylönen, Jesse $1,500,000$1,500,000 RW, LW RFA

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Matheson, Michael $4,875,000$4,875,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 1	Reinbacher, David $950,000$950,000 ($1,500,000$2M) RD RFA - 1	Montembeault, Samuel $3,000,000$3,000,000 G UFA - 2
Guhle, Kaiden $5,500,000$5,500,000 LD/RD RFA	Barron, Justin $1,700,000$1,700,000 RD RFA	Dobes, Jakub $1,050,000$1,050,000 G RFA
Xhekaj, Arber $1,400,000$1,400,000 LD/RD RFA	Harris, Jordan $3,000,000$3,000,000 LD/RD RFA

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Kovacevic, Johnathan $1,500,000$1,500,000 RD UFA		Price, Carey $10,500,000$10,500,000 G NMC UFA - 1
Trudeau, William $874,125$874,125 LD RFA
Farrell, Sean $874,125$874,125 RW, LW RFA

Special Teams

Power Play 1
Caufield, C.		Newhook, A.		Dach, K.
	Matheson, M.		Suzuki, N.

Power Play 2
Ylönen, J.		Harvey-Pinard, R.		Slafkovsky, J.
	Xhekaj, A.		Barron, J.

Penalty Kill 1
	Evans, J.	Harvey-Pinard, R.
	Matheson, M.	Reinbacher, D.

Penalty Kill 2
	Beck, O.	Anderson, J.
	Guhle, K.	Harris, J.

Top Comments

Jul. 27, 2023 at 2:41 p.m.

TheRealisticGuy

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@jpsnow13 @just_a_guess @drambui

Jul. 27, 2023 at 2:41 p.m.

TheRealisticGuy

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@shanesaw9 @koskinen_the_great @blazingbat11

Jul. 27, 2023 at 2:41 p.m.

TheRealisticGuy

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Thoughts guys ?

Jul. 27, 2023 at 2:50 p.m.

drambui

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if mtl wants to compete at that time, i expect gallagher is gone. most likely bought out. in 2 years i expect to have a bit more prospect up (hopefully roy at the very least). it really depend how fast the guys are developping.

its clear hughes doesnt want to rebuild for too long (with the dach and newhook trades), i bet we finish bottom 8 this year and try to make a push with one or 2 ufa signing the year after.

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Jul. 27, 2023 at 3:34 p.m.

jpsnow13

You know nothing JS

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Edited Jul. 27, 2023 at 3:41 p.m.

General thoughts:

In 3 seasons, Gally will be 34 and done. Placing him on LTIR opens a spot for Roy/Mesar/Rohrer

Evans and Kovacevic will be replaced by guys on ELCs for sure. That makes place for Kapanen/Davidson/Kidney and Mailloux/Hutson/Engstrom

Matheson and/or Harris will be gone IMO. Prime trading assets.

This team needs a big left handed C/LW (if you switch Caufield and Slaf). I'm not sold on Heineman yet.

Montembault will be worth +$5M as a hometown UFA. See Ullmark, Husso, Merzlikins... If I'm KH, I give it to him as the free agent market will be poop. Still need a back up though...

Finally, is Dach 1C in 3 years? He might be...

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