BLOCKBUSTER PHILLY TRADE TOMORROW PLUS OFFSEASON ZEGRAS TRADE

Created by: nilees24

Team: 2023-24 Montreal Canadiens

Initial Creation Date: Mar. 7, 2024

Published: Mar. 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

If the Habs 2024 1st round pick is the 1.02, would Anaheim consider trading Zegras to get it? This would give the Ducks 2 Top-5 picks in this year's draft.

Flyers are in need of a reliable back-up goalie and a healthy veteran defenseman for a playoff run.

2024 Off-Season Free Agent Departures:
Tanner Pearson (UFA)
Mattias Norlinder (RFA)
Filip Cederqvist (RFA)
Nathan Légaré (RFA)
Colin White (UFA)
Mitchell Stephens (UFA)
Philippe Maillet (UFA)
Brady Keeper (UFA)
Chris Wideman (UFA)
*All these players are on Injured Reserve (IR) on the 'Long-Term Outlook' tab.

2024 Off-Season RFA signings:
Arber Xhekaj - (5-year / 11.25 million) 2.25 MILL PER YEAR
Justin Barron - (1-year / 850k)
Lias Andersson - (2-year / 1.55 million) 775K PER YEAR

2024 NHL Draft - Trade 27th overall pick in 2024 NHL Draft (from WPG) plus 2025 1st Round pick (from CGY) to trade up to the 13th overall pick in 2024 NHL Draft (to SEA) to acquire Tij Iginla (C).
2024 NHL Draft - 64th overall pick (from COL) acquire Alexis Bernier (RD).
**All 8 reserve list signings occur after 2024 Trade Deadline and/or during 2024-Off Season.

Projected cap hit at start of 2024-25 Season:
$80.1 million

Trade candidates at 2025 Trade Deadline should Canadiens struggle during 2024/25 Season:
Christian Dvorak (UFA) - final year of contract (50% salary retention candidate)
Joel Armia (UFA) - final year of contract (50% salary retention candidate)
Jake Evans (UFA) - final year of contract
Michael Pezzetta (UFA) - final year of contract
Johnathan Kovacevic (UFA) - final year of contract

2025 Off-Season Reserve List signings (x8):
Oliver Kapanen (C)
Rhett Pitlick (LW)
Florian Xhekaj (LW)
Adam Engström (LD)
Ty Murchison (LD)
Quentin Miller (G)
Player drafted from 2025 2nd round pick (from MTL)
Player drafted from 2025 2nd round pick (from PIT)

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST	YEARS	CAP HIT
Tuch, Luke	3	$883,333
Guindon, Cedrick	3	$855,000
Davidson, Jared	2	$825,000
Biondi, Blake	2	$825,000
Nurmi, Petteri	2	$825,000
Tourigny, Miguël	2	$825,000

CREATED		YEARS	CAP HIT
Iginla, Tij		3	$950,000
Bernier, Alexis		3	$885,000

Trades

MTL

Kaplan, Devin [Reserve List]
Murchison, Ty [Reserve List]
Petersen, Cal

PHI

Allen, Jake
Savard, David ($1,750,000 retained)

Additional Details:

*Trade at Trade Deadline. Canadiens retain 50% of Savard's contract (2 years remaining). No salary retention for Allen.

**Cal Petersen sent to Laval for the remainder of his contract. Flyers are in need of a reliable back-up goalie for a playoff run.

MTL

Zegras, Trevor

ANA

Harris, Jordan
Ylönen, Jesse
2024 1st round pick (MTL)
2025 1st round pick (MTL)

Additional Details:

*Off-Season trade on the 2024 Draft floor. 2024 1st round pick (from MTL) could be a top-6 pick (perhaps the 1.02 for this scenario).

MTL

2024 1st round pick (SEA)

SEA

2024 1st round pick (WPG)
2025 1st round pick (CGY)

Additional Details:

*Off-Season trade on the 2024 Draft floor. Trade 27th overall pick in 2024 NHL Draft (from WPG) plus 2025 1st Round pick (from CGY) to trade up to the 13th overall pick in 2024 NHL Draft (to SEA) to acquire Tij Iginla (C).

Buyouts

Karl Alzner: $833,333

Retained Salary Transactions

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

Buried

Cal Petersen: $3,850,000 ($5,000,000)

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	$86,183,750	$1,170,000	$4,557,503	-$2,683,750

Roster

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	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	Zegras, Trevor $5,750,000$5,750,000 C, LW RFA - 3	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	Evans, Jake $1,700,000$1,700,000 C UFA - 2	Gallagher, Brendan $6,500,000$6,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 4
Harvey-Pinard, Rafaël $1,100,000$1,100,000 LW, RW RFA - 2	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
Pezzetta, Michael $812,500$812,500 LW, RW UFA - 2		Armia, Joel $3,400,000$3,400,000 RW, LW UFA - 2

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Matheson, Michael $4,875,000$4,875,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 3	Guhle, Kaiden $863,333$863,333 ($420,000$420K) LD/RD RFA - 2	Montembeault, Samuel $1,000,000$1,000,000 G UFA - 1
Struble, Jayden $867,500$867,500 ($57,500$58K) LD RFA - 2	Barron, Justin $925,000$925,000 ($275,000$275K) RD RFA - 1	Primeau, Cayden $890,000$890,000 G RFA - 2
Xhekaj, Arber $828,333$828,333 LD/RD RFA - 1	Kovacevic, Johnathan $766,667$766,667 RD UFA - 2
	Mailloux, Logan $875,000$875,000 ($82,500$82K) RD RFA - 3

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
	Pearson, Tanner $3,250,000$3,250,000 LW UFA - 1	Price, Carey $10,500,000$10,500,000 G NMC UFA - 3
	Norlinder, Mattias $859,167$859,167 ($32,500$32K) LD RFA - 1
	Cederqvist, Filip $850,000$850,000 ($50,003$50K) LW, RW RFA - 1
	Légaré, Nathan $789,167$789,167 ($82,500$82K) RW RFA - 1
	White, Colin $775,000$775,000 C, RW UFA - 1
	Maillet, Philippe $775,000$775,000 C UFA - 1
	Stephens, Mitchell $775,000$775,000 C UFA - 1
	Keeper, Brady $775,000$775,000 RD UFA - 1
	Wideman, Chris $762,500$762,500 RD UFA - 1

Special Teams

Power Play 1
Caufield, C.		Suzuki, N.		Zegras, T.
	Anderson, J.		Matheson, M.

Power Play 2
Slafkovsky, J.		Dach, K.		Roy, J.
	Guhle, K.		Struble, J.

Penalty Kill 1
	Evans, J.	Harvey-Pinard, R.
	Matheson, M.	Kovacevic, J.

Penalty Kill 2
	Newhook, A.	Gallagher, B.
	Xhekaj, A.	Barron, J.

Top Comments

Mar. 7 at 2:30 p.m.

brady_t12

Fantasy Hockey Pro

Joined: Jun. 2016

Posts: 5,226

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You're trading the 2nd overall pick plus another first rounder for Zegras? Bold move...

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Mar. 7 at 2:32 p.m.

AlakHul

Darkblade

Joined: Dec. 2021

Posts: 787

Likes: 399

Celebrini for Zegras?????????????????????? thank god u not the gm lmao

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Mar. 7 at 2:33 p.m.

Jded

Joined: Jun. 2016

Posts: 2,869

Likes: 1,896

You MTL fans need to look at each others proposals. Some version of this has been sent out like 200 times in the last 2 months with the same comments again and again.

Harris and Ylonen are not interesting for ANA at all

The ‘24 MTL 1st could be depending on who falls there (this would be a draft floor trade) but I imagine if the players Verbeek would consider (Lev and Lindstrom) were available, MTL would prefer to just make the selection. Zegras isn’t going anywhere

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Mar. 7 at 2:36 p.m.

AlakHul

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Joined: Dec. 2021

Posts: 787

Likes: 399

Quoting: Jded

Lev and Lindstrom arent falling past 5. I'd be fine with moving the pick if its in the 6-9 range, prob gotta add a bit (habs), but if we get top 2, its def one of Celebrini and Lindstrom, even though Demidov is better than Lindstrom imo.

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Mar. 7 at 2:46 p.m.

JeffGorton

Jeff Gorton

Joined: Oct. 2020

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Every player in the top 10 of this draft is as good (and younger) or better than Zegras

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