Taking a look in Buffalos cupboard 2024-2025

Created by: MTLaveragefan

Team: 2024-25 Montreal Canadiens

Initial Creation Date: Jan. 18, 2024

Published: Jan. 18, 2024

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

TT, Tuch, Skinner, Cozens, Mitts, JJP, Benson, Kulich, savoie, ostlund, Quinn and Rosen.

Thats 12 players for 6 top roster spots. hell.. it's 11 players for 9 top roster players. Some of these players will eventually be the odd-man out in BUF's line-up.

I'm pretty sure some of them, if not most of them are intouchable - I understand... but like Dr. Schultz said to Mr. Candy in Django :

''Well, you won't sell your best. You won't even sell your second best, but your third best? You don't wanna sell either, but if I made you an offer so ridiculous, you'd be forced to consider it?"

Habs need that missing top 6 piece. and I think the Sabres have one to spare. I wounder if the following offer could pry one of those young buck from Buffalo.

Let me know what you think.

(Habs fans - I know it's probably an overpayment )

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST		YEARS	CAP HIT
Hutson, Lane		3	$900,000

RFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Xhekaj, Arber		4	$2,500,000
Ylönen, Jesse		1	$1,500,000

Trades

MTL

Quinn, Jack

BUF

Barron, Justin [RFA Rights]
Beck, Owen
Tuch, Luke [Reserve List]

Additional Details:

Beck is prototype 2-way scoring center who excels on the draw and on defense AND a pest) could be a great addition to BUF's line-up over time.

Barron is a two-way RHD with top 4 potential.

Luke Tuch is a decent prospect AND Alex Tuch's brother

Retained Salary Transactions

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

EMBED

TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
22	$87,500,000	$70,857,083	$1,022,500	$4,770,000	$16,642,917

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Caufield, Cole $7,850,000$7,850,000 LW, RW UFA - 7	Suzuki, Nick $7,875,000$7,875,000 C UFA - 6	Slafkovsky, Juraj $950,000$950,000 ($3,500,000$4M) RW, LW RFA - 1
Newhook, Alex $2,900,000$2,900,000 C, LW RFA - 3	Dach, Kirby $3,362,500$3,362,500 C, RW RFA - 2	Quinn, Jack $863,333$863,333 ($850,000$850K) RW, LW RFA - 1
Roy, Joshua $835,000$835,000 LW, RW RFA - 2	Dvorak, Christian $4,450,000$4,450,000 C M-NTC UFA - 1	Anderson, Josh $5,500,000$5,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 3
Harvey-Pinard, Rafaël $1,100,000$1,100,000 LW, RW RFA - 1	Evans, Jake $1,700,000$1,700,000 C UFA - 1	Gallagher, Brendan $6,500,000$6,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 3
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 - 2	Savard, David $3,500,000$3,500,000 RD UFA - 1	Allen, Jake $1,925,000$1,925,000 G M-NTC UFA - 1
Guhle, Kaiden $863,333$863,333 ($420,000$420K) LD/RD RFA - 1	Kovacevic, Johnathan $766,667$766,667 RD UFA - 1	Montembeault, Samuel $3,150,000$3,150,000 G UFA - 3
Xhekaj, Arber $2,500,000$2,500,000 LD/RD RFA	Mailloux, Logan $875,000$875,000 RD RFA - 2
Harris, Jordan $1,400,000$1,400,000 LD/RD RFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
		Price, Carey $10,500,000$10,500,000 G NMC UFA - 2

Top Comments

Jan. 18 at 11:00 a.m.

wojme

Joined: Jun. 2017

Posts: 7,693

Likes: 5,910

I can promise you one thing, Jack Quinn isn't going anywhere anytime soon

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Jan. 18 at 11:03 a.m.

Shibbal18

Joined: Jan. 2016

Posts: 25,255

Likes: 9,043

You looked at the Sabres prospects, made a point to mention how many forwards they have, then trade 2 worse forward prospects for probably the best of the Sabres prospect group... (And a meh d prospect)

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Jan. 18 at 11:04 a.m.

littlejerryseinfeld

Joined: Nov. 2017

Posts: 27,908

Likes: 14,586

Get out of that cupboard.

No

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Jan. 18 at 11:14 a.m.

jonh514

HuGo is a Boss GM

Joined: Dec. 2021

Posts: 7,064

Likes: 3,079

Typical fan responses here. No none of our prospects are for sale. We'll play them on the 4th line and wait until they publicly request a trade gosh darn it!

Your post makes a lot of sense, but they need defense not forwards. None of our forwards are better than what they have. But our D pipeline might be second to none.

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Jan. 18 at 11:22 a.m.

Nick_SUCCzuki

Suczuking Kotkaniemi

Joined: Mar. 2021

Posts: 324

Likes: 125

Not sure why Buffalo would want those guys. Would rather try to center a deal around our many defensemen (like Harris, Barron, ect)

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