Zegras and Toffoli

Created by: Shanesaw9

Team: 2024-25 Montreal Canadiens

Initial Creation Date: Feb. 6, 2024

Published: Feb. 20, 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

If Celebrini and Lindstrom aren't available, I would try to trade MTL's 2024 1st for Zegras. With Dach's injury, I'd like to acquire another potential C just in case.

Toffoli was a good fit in MTL and since being traded he scored 34 goals and he is on pace for 36 goals this season. He is a positive play driver which MTL needs more of and I think he'd just be a good veteran fit for this team. Good buddies with Evans, Caufield, and Suzuki still, his wife likes MTL, they had a cup run together, and he already signed with them once... lots of reasons for a fit. I used Palat and Killorn as contract comparables.

I don't know what MTL should do with their defense, so I opted not to make any changes at this time. The way I see it Struble has overtaken Harris who is likely gone at some point and Savard is also on the way out with Mailloux next up. Mailloux has probably overtaken Barron as well. Hutson and Reinbacher will be pushing, so they could potentially be replacing Matheson and Barron in the near future, depending on what happens with Kovacevic and how Guhle progresses (can he overtake Matheson?).

Laval Lineup:
Andersson - Gignac - Roy
Heineman - Kidney - Mesar
Davidson - Beck - Simoneau
Tuch - Mysak - Nadeau
Condotta, Legare

Struble - Mailloux
Hutson - Reinbacher
Trudeau - Fluery
Tourigny

Domingue
Dobes

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST	YEARS	CAP HIT
Davidson, Jared	3	$800,000
Hutson, Lane	2	$925,000
Tourigny, Miguël	3	$775,000
Tuch, Luke	2	$800,000

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Xhekaj, Arber	2	$1,500,000
Légaré, Nathan	1	$775,000
Andersson, Lias	1	$775,000
Barron, Justin	2	$1,500,000

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Toffoli, Tyler		4	$6,500,000
Domingue, Louis		2	$925,000

Trades

MTL

Zegras, Trevor

ANA

Farrell, Sean
2024 1st round pick (MTL)

MTL

Anywhere

ANA

Allen, Jake

Retained Salary Transactions

Jeff Petry: $2,343,750 (50%)

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
23	$87,500,000	$80,461,250	$1,022,500	$3,920,000	$7,038,750

Roster

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
Zegras, Trevor $5,750,000$5,750,000 C, LW RFA - 2	Dach, Kirby $3,362,500$3,362,500 C, RW RFA - 2	Toffoli, Tyler $6,500,000$6,500,000 RW, LW UFA
Newhook, Alex $2,900,000$2,900,000 C, LW RFA - 3	Dvorak, Christian $4,450,000$4,450,000 C M-NTC UFA - 1	Armia, Joel $3,400,000$3,400,000 RW, LW UFA - 1
Harvey-Pinard, Rafaël $1,100,000$1,100,000 LW, RW RFA - 1	Evans, Jake $1,700,000$1,700,000 C UFA - 1	Anderson, Josh $5,500,000$5,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 3
Pezzetta, Michael $812,500$812,500 LW, RW UFA - 1		Gallagher, Brendan $6,500,000$6,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 3

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Guhle, Kaiden $863,333$863,333 ($420,000$420K) LD/RD RFA - 1	Barron, Justin $1,500,000$1,500,000 RD RFA	Montembeault, Samuel $3,150,000$3,150,000 G UFA - 3
Matheson, Michael $4,875,000$4,875,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 2	Savard, David $3,500,000$3,500,000 RD UFA - 1	Primeau, Cayden $890,000$890,000 G RFA - 1
Xhekaj, Arber $1,500,000$1,500,000 LD/RD RFA	Kovacevic, Johnathan $766,667$766,667 RD UFA - 1
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

Special Teams

Power Play 1
Slafkovsky, J.		Matheson, M.		Caufield, C.
	Newhook, A.		Suzuki, N.

Power Play 2
Zegras, T.		Barron, J.		Dach, K.
	Dvorak, C.		Toffoli, T.

Penalty Kill 1
	Harvey-Pinard, R.	Evans, J.
	Guhle, K.	Savard, D.

Penalty Kill 2
	Slafkovsky, J.	Suzuki, N.
	Xhekaj, A.	Kovacevic, J.

Top Comments

Feb. 20 at 11:35 a.m.

ht42

Joined: Apr. 2022

Posts: 2,460

Likes: 698

Toffoli signed at 4,25M because he wanted to play for Montreal. He refused a higher offer from LA to play with the Canadiens.

Don't expect him to sign over than 4,25M if he decide to come back to MTL.

Feb. 20 at 11:52 a.m.

Blazingbat11

Molson beer is meh

Joined: Jan. 2017

Posts: 3,873

Likes: 1,783

Quoting: ht42

A lot of circumstances would dictate that Toffoli would get a higher salary / cap hit then his previous contract, even if he takes a "discount" for MTL. Overall, with the salary cap rising, the equivalent of signing for $4.25mil aav in 2020 is probably in the $5mil aav range in 2024.

but if we do use the Palat and Killorn contracts as comparables, then yes, $6mil+ aav at the very least to get it done. But honestly, I think that's justifiable for Toffoli. I doubt anyone would think he isn't worth that money.
I still think at least one of Armia, Dvorak, Anderson, or Gallagher would need to be moved out in order to bring in another vet. Habs still need to make space for younger players. Speaking of....there's no way Roy isn't on the team moving forward, especially next season. Only way he gets sent down now, is to bolster Laval's playoff push. Other than that, Roy easily slots into the Habs middle 6.

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Feb. 20 at 11:54 a.m.

Black61

Joined: Sep. 2020

Posts: 2,645

Likes: 1,686

You want another C then proceed to trade for a guy who cant play C at the nhl level. Lol no way the habs give up a top 10 pick for zegras

Feb. 20 at 12:16 p.m.

Shibbal18

Joined: Jan. 2016

Posts: 25,244

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Sabres have a significantly higher need for Nadeau than Norlinder

Feb. 20 at 12:40 p.m.

Shanesaw9

Habs 2010

Joined: May 2020

Posts: 1,548

Likes: 974

Edited Feb. 20 at 1:03 p.m.

Quoting: Blazingbat11

I still think at least one of Armia, Dvorak, Anderson, or Gallagher would need to be moved out in order to bring in another vet. Habs still need to make space for younger players. Speaking of....there's no way Roy isn't on the team moving forward, especially next season. Only way he gets sent down now, is to bolster Laval's playoff push. Other than that, Roy easily slots into the Habs middle 6.

Armia is probably the only one out of that bunch that is tradeable. I disagree regarding Roy, he hasn't shown that he is ready for the NHL yet and even in Laval he has not really dominated outside of his hot start. Looks like he has more to learn, particularly defensively, I think he needs more seasoning.

5 forward contracts are up after next season, that seems like the ideal time to integrate Roy into the lineup.

Quoting: Black61

You want another C then proceed to trade for a guy who cant play C at the nhl level. Lol no way the habs give up a top 10 pick for zegras

I don't want another C, I want another C option. Should Dach get re-injured Zegras can move to C. Why is it out of the question that Zegras is worth a top 10 pick? He was literally a top 10 pick in his own draft and in a redraft he would be top 5. You hope guys like Demidov, Catton, Eiserman etc. hit like Zegras.

By the way, Zegras has put up similar results 5v5 playing C as Suzuki so...

- ZEGRAS: 47.14 GF%, 47.09 xGF%
- SUZUKI: 46.65 GF%, 47.47 xGF%

Quoting: Shibbal18

Sabres have a significantly higher need for Nadeau than Norlinder

The sabres have a significantly higher need for Nadeau... who is playing in the ECHL? Right... I think this is just a trade involving 2 prospects that need a change of scenery. Throwing around the term "significant" when debating a trade for an ECHL'r is Capfriendly at its finest.

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