Rebuild Over

Created by: Campabee

Team: 2023-24 Montreal Canadiens

Initial Creation Date: Feb. 28, 2024

Published: Mar. 2, 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

Hughes wants to be a playoff team next year so he goes nuclear on the rebuild overpaying for highly skilled guys, some that are a bit of reclamation projects. You can look at these moves as blowing up the future or ruining the salary structure of the team but Hughes and Gorton have never cared about conventional wisdom, they have just made the moves that are required to make the team better, more competitive now and for the long-term. Adding 3 under 26 top 9 forwards builds onto the young core especially when 2 of them are additional top line quality forwards, the ends justify the means.

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST	YEARS	CAP HIT
Fowler, Jacob	3	$950,000
Hutson, Lane	3	$950,000
Engström, Adam	3	$875,000

Trades

MTL

Zegras, Trevor

ANA

Newhook, Alex
2024 1st round pick (MTL)

Additional Details:

Top 2 protected

MTL

LAK

Dvorak, Christian
Harris, Jordan
2024 1st round pick (WPG)

MTL

CGY

Additional Details:

Not resigned

MTL

Andersson, Rasmus

CGY

Barron, Justin
Mesar, Filip
Pearson, Tanner
2025 1st round pick (CGY)

MTL

CGY

Evans, Jake

Additional Details:

To a playoff team for depth

Buyouts

Karl Alzner: $833,333

Retained Salary Transactions

Joel Edmundson: $1,750,000 (50%)
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

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$83,500,000	$79,277,083	$1,170,000	$4,327,500	$4,222,917

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	Zegras, Trevor $5,750,000$5,750,000 C, LW RFA - 3
Slafkovsky, Juraj $950,000$950,000 ($3,500,000$4M) RW, LW RFA - 2	Dach, Kirby $3,362,500$3,362,500 C, RW RFA - 3	Roy, Joshua $835,000$835,000 ($57,500$58K) LW, RW RFA - 3
Anderson, Josh $5,500,000$5,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 4	Dubois, Pierre-Luc $8,500,000$8,500,000 C UFA - 8	Kaliyev, Arthur $894,167$894,167 ($212,500$212K) RW, LW RFA - 1
Armia, Joel $3,400,000$3,400,000 RW, LW UFA - 2	Beck, Owen $885,000$885,000 ($80,000$80K) C RFA - 3	Gallagher, Brendan $6,500,000$6,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 4

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Guhle, Kaiden $863,333$863,333 ($420,000$420K) LD/RD RFA - 2	Andersson, Rasmus $4,550,000$4,550,000 RD UFA - 3	Montembeault, Samuel $1,000,000$1,000,000 G UFA - 1
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
Struble, Jayden $867,500$867,500 ($57,500$58K) LD RFA - 2	Xhekaj, Arber $828,333$828,333 LD/RD RFA - 1	Primeau, Cayden $890,000$890,000 G RFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Pezzetta, Michael $812,500$812,500 LW, RW UFA - 2		Price, Carey $10,500,000$10,500,000 G NMC UFA - 3
Kovacevic, Johnathan $766,667$766,667 RD UFA - 2

Top Comments

Mar. 2 at 9:59 a.m.

Caniac2000

Joined: May 2018

Posts: 19,559

Likes: 5,044

Canes decline. Primeau would be a 5th string goalie and Perets is waiver exempt. No

Mar. 2 at 10:04 a.m.

Campabee

Joined: Nov. 2018

Posts: 15,558

Likes: 6,460

Quoting: Caniac2000

Canes decline. Primeau would be a 5th string goalie and Perets is waiver exempt. No

LMAO, You mean a great backup/tandem, Freddie is done for the year, Raanta sucks, Martin is the current backup and is a lot worse than Primeau, so bad I fact that the Canes got him because he literally has such little value that he was put on waivers cause Noone even wanted to pay a 7th for him.

Mar. 2 at 10:05 a.m.

seanrushton

Joined: Apr. 2023

Posts: 4,334

Likes: 1,237

Quoting: Campabee

Yeah

LMAO, You mean a great backup/tandem, Freddie is done for the year, Raanta sucks, Martin is the current backup and is a lot worse than Primeau, so bad I fact that the Canes got him because he literally has such little value that he was put on waivers cause Noone even wanted to pay a 7th for him.

Ummm... Freddie is literally coming back any day... our GM said he's gonna play sometime this week

Mar. 2 at 10:06 a.m.

Campabee

Joined: Nov. 2018

Posts: 15,558

Likes: 6,460

Quoting: seanrushton

Ummm... Freddie is literally coming back any day... our GM said he's gonna play sometime this week

My apologies then last I had heard he was done, then I guess the Canes don't need a backup, good to know

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Mar. 2 at 10:12 a.m.

seanrushton

Joined: Apr. 2023

Posts: 4,334

Likes: 1,237

Quoting: Campabee

My apologies then last I had heard he was done, then I guess the Canes don't need a backup, good to know

Your good

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