Habs fan hoping for high pick in draft

Created by: KentMcNally

Team: 2023-24 Montreal Canadiens

Initial Creation Date: Nov. 19, 2023

Published: Nov. 19, 2023

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

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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

Hopefully the last few games have clarified that Montreal will be in a position to draft in the top 5 (at least top 10).
Some Habs fans on this site were proposing keeping Monahan and/or adding players to perhaps squeak in to the playoffs. We are not close to that. We need more high end prospects.
I suggest combining the Edmonton and Pittsburgh first round picks into a trading up scenario in either the 2024 draft or 2025 draft to get into the top 16. Late first round picks won’t help the rebuild nearly as much.

I am really hoping the Habs are in a position to pick one of Celebrini, Eiserman, Demidov, Catton, Lindstrom or Helenius in the 2024 draft. This is the type of top end prospect needed.

Trades

MTL

Bourgault, Xavier
Campbell, Jack
2025 1st round pick (EDM)

EDM

Allen, Jake
2025 3rd round pick (VAN)

MTL

Carter, Jeff

PIT

MTL

2025 1st round pick (PIT)

PIT

Monahan trade

Buyouts

Karl Alzner: $833,333

Retained Salary Transactions

Joel Edmundson: $1,750,000 (50%)
Jeff Petry: $2,343,750 (50%)

Buried

Joel Armia: $2,250,000 ($3,400,000)

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
24	$83,500,000	$81,182,916	$1,170,000	$4,445,000	$2,317,084

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	Gallagher, Brendan $6,500,000$6,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 4
Pearson, Tanner $3,250,000$3,250,000 LW UFA - 1	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
Newhook, Alex $2,900,000$2,900,000 C, LW RFA - 4		Slafkovsky, Juraj $950,000$950,000 ($3,500,000$4M) RW, LW RFA - 2
Harvey-Pinard, Rafaël $1,100,000$1,100,000 LW, RW RFA - 2	Evans, Jake $1,700,000$1,700,000 C UFA - 2
Pezzetta, Michael $812,500$812,500 LW, RW UFA - 2	Carter, Jeff $3,125,000$3,125,000 RW, C NMC UFA - 1	Ylönen, Jesse $775,000$775,000 RW, LW RFA - 1
		Bourgault, Xavier $925,000$925,000 ($250,000$250K) RW RFA - 2

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Matheson, Michael $4,875,000$4,875,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 3	Lindström, Gustav $950,000$950,000 RD RFA - 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	Montembeault, Samuel $1,000,000$1,000,000 G UFA - 1
Guhle, Kaiden $863,333$863,333 ($420,000$420K) LD/RD RFA - 2	Kovacevic, Johnathan $766,667$766,667 RD UFA - 2	Primeau, Cayden $890,000$890,000 G RFA - 2
Xhekaj, Arber $828,333$828,333 LD/RD RFA - 1		Campbell, Jack $5,000,000$5,000,000 G M-NTC UFA - 4

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
	Savard, David $3,500,000$3,500,000 RD UFA - 2	Price, Carey $10,500,000$10,500,000 G NMC UFA - 3
	Dach, Kirby $3,362,500$3,362,500 C, RW RFA - 3
	Wideman, Chris $762,500$762,500 RD UFA - 1

Top Comments

Nov. 19, 2023 at 9:30 a.m.

Campabee

Joined: Nov. 2018

Posts: 15,537

Likes: 6,451

Carter won't waive for Montreal and Monahan is worth more alone

Nov. 19, 2023 at 9:38 a.m.

KentMcNally

Fall River Habs

Joined: Aug. 2021

Posts: 886

Likes: 336

Quoting: Campabee

Carter won't waive for Montreal and Monahan is worth more alone

I tend to agree that Monahan is worth a 1st alone, but the 2 trades were made simply to get the first round picks and avoid a protracted string of posts saying: “Montreal will never get a first for Monahan” or that Edmonton would never do that, so I tried going slightly over the top as far as what the Habs give up. Really just focusing on getting the picks do that they have 6 round picks in the next 3 years.

Nov. 19, 2023 at 10:38 a.m.

Campabee

Joined: Nov. 2018

Posts: 15,537

Likes: 6,451

Quoting: KentMcNally

The bigger issue is Carter still has a NMC and most likely won't waive it for Montreal

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