4 pts from drafting 16th overall

Created by: MTLaveragefan

Team: 2023-24 Montreal Canadiens

Initial Creation Date: Feb. 7, 2024

Published: Feb. 7, 2024

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

What the hell boys... stop. Please stop, we NEED that top 6 talent... Don't you dare start wining as a last ditch effort to make the playoff.

We are 4 pts from drafting 16th - It's too close for my taste. Lets trade to guarrentee a tank. Get unmotivated vets on expiring contract to take the place of hungry call-ups.

Send Armia to the AHL before he goes on his late-season heater to get us out of the top 5.

AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, play Anderson with CC and Zuke to anihilate their mojo.

Give Covid and food poisoning to Monty - he steals too many games.

Bring Wideman back from Robidas Island.

Send Struble down and bring Norlinder up.

Curse Evans by playing him with Pearson and Gally 18min a night.

Trades

MTL

Carter, Jeff

PIT

2024 7th round pick (WSH)

MTL

Vlasic, Marc-Édouard ($250,000 retained)

SJS

Gallagher, Brendan

MTL

Faksa, Radek
2024 2nd round pick (DAL)

DAL

2025 3rd round pick (VAN)

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
23	$83,500,000	$71,026,250	$1,170,000	$3,952,500	$12,473,750

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	Anderson, Josh $5,500,000$5,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 4
Pearson, Tanner $3,250,000$3,250,000 LW UFA - 1	Evans, Jake $1,700,000$1,700,000 C UFA - 2	Ylönen, Jesse $775,000$775,000 RW, LW RFA - 1
Slafkovsky, Juraj $950,000$950,000 ($3,500,000$4M) RW, LW RFA - 2	Newhook, Alex $2,900,000$2,900,000 C, LW RFA - 4	Harvey-Pinard, Rafaël $1,100,000$1,100,000 LW, RW RFA - 2
Pezzetta, Michael $812,500$812,500 LW, RW UFA - 2	Faksa, Radek $3,250,000$3,250,000 C, LW M-NTC UFA - 2	Carter, Jeff $3,125,000$3,125,000 RW, C NMC UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Matheson, Michael $4,875,000$4,875,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 3	Savard, David $3,500,000$3,500,000 RD UFA - 2	Allen, Jake $1,925,000$1,925,000 G M-NTC UFA - 2
Guhle, Kaiden $863,333$863,333 ($420,000$420K) LD/RD RFA - 2	Kovacevic, Johnathan $766,667$766,667 RD UFA - 2	Montembeault, Samuel $1,000,000$1,000,000 G UFA - 1
Vlasic, Marc-Édouard $6,750,000$6,750,000 LD/RD M-NTC UFA - 3	Wideman, Chris $762,500$762,500 RD UFA - 1	Primeau, Cayden $890,000$890,000 G RFA - 2
Harris, Jordan $1,400,000$1,400,000 LD/RD RFA - 2	Norlinder, Mattias $859,167$859,167 ($32,500$32K) LD RFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
		Price, Carey $10,500,000$10,500,000 G NMC UFA - 3
		Dvorak, Christian $4,450,000$4,450,000 C M-NTC UFA - 2
		Dach, Kirby $3,362,500$3,362,500 C, RW RFA - 3

Top Comments

Feb. 7 at 10:07 a.m.

KentMcNally

Fall River Habs

Joined: Aug. 2021

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What about trading Matheson and Savard too, if they are going to go into full tank mode?

Feb. 7 at 11:01 a.m.

MTLaveragefan

I post sometimes

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Quoting: KentMcNally

What about trading Matheson and Savard too, if they are going to go into full tank mode?

On the book - but I see Matheson as useful next season and Savard is not making us win games right now.

Feb. 7 at 11:12 a.m.

BDHockey

Joined: Nov. 2023

Posts: 998

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Don't you worry about the culture that this creates for a team and locker room though? Sure it is easy to say that tanking helps get higher draft picks, but I think when you have young players like Slaf, Suzuki, and Caulfield there is something to be said about creating a culture of losing.

Feb. 7 at 11:41 a.m.

MTLaveragefan

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Quoting: BDHockey

I think we can already see that these kids do not give up. CC and Zuke got a taste of the cup final - they want to go back.

I want them to lose while still competing... but still losing by 1 or 2 goals because of inexperience or lazy vets that will be gone.

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Feb. 7 at 12:01 p.m.

BDHockey

Joined: Nov. 2023

Posts: 998

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Quoting: MTLaveragefan

Fair enough. I just feel like tanking robs young players of really good mentorship and experience, but I wish all the best to you guys. For what it is worth I'm not super impressed with this draft year.

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