IF Crosby came next offseason

Created by: Caufield

Team: 2025-26 Montreal Canadiens

Initial Creation Date: Mar. 12, 2024

Published: Mar. 12, 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

MTL draft Catton in 2024, likely stays a year down somewhere (maybe a similar play to what SEA did with Wright) and he comes in strong in 2025-26.

Re resign most of the RFAs, but for the sake of time, I'll sign the top ones

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST	YEARS	CAP HIT
Hutson, Lane	3	$975,000
Fowler, Jacob	3	$975,000
Xhekaj, Florian	3	$975,000
Engström, Adam	3	$975,000

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Slafkovsky, Juraj	8	$7,100,000
Guhle, Kaiden	8	$6,500,000
Barron, Justin	2	$1,500,000
Harris, Jordan	2	$1,500,000
Xhekaj, Arber	2	$1,500,000
Harvey-Pinard, Rafaël	2	$1,500,000
Struble, Jayden	2	$2,500,000

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Crosby, Sidney		2	$9,000,000
Perbix, Nick		4	$3,600,000

CREATED		YEARS	CAP HIT
Catton, Berkly		3	$975,000

Trades

MTL

BUF

Barron, Justin

Additional Details:

likely traded, BUF is an option

MTL

BOS

Matheson, Michael

Additional Details:

I think once Hutson is a good PP QB, Matheson is traded

MTL

2024 2nd round pick (CGY)

CGY

Harris, Jordan

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
24	$83,500,000	$78,037,500	$0	$1,557,500	$5,462,500

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Caufield, Cole $7,850,000$7,850,000 LW, RW UFA - 6	Suzuki, Nick $7,875,000$7,875,000 C UFA - 5	Slafkovsky, Juraj $7,100,000$7,100,000 RW, LW RFA
Roy, Joshua $835,000$835,000 LW, RW RFA - 1	Crosby, Sidney $9,000,000$9,000,000 C UFA	Dach, Kirby $3,362,500$3,362,500 C, RW RFA - 1
Catton, Berkly $975,000$975,000	Newhook, Alex $2,900,000$2,900,000 C, LW RFA - 2	Anderson, Josh $5,500,000$5,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 2
Harvey-Pinard, Rafaël $1,500,000$1,500,000 LW, RW RFA	Beck, Owen $885,000$885,000 C RFA - 1	Gallagher, Brendan $6,500,000$6,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 2

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Guhle, Kaiden $6,500,000$6,500,000 LD/RD RFA	Mailloux, Logan $875,000$875,000 RD RFA - 1	Montembeault, Samuel $3,150,000$3,150,000 G UFA - 2
Hutson, Lane $975,000$975,000 LD RFA - 1	Reinbacher, David $950,000$950,000 ($1,500,000$2M) RD RFA - 1	Fowler, Jacob $975,000$975,000 G RFA
Struble, Jayden $2,500,000$2,500,000 LD RFA	Perbix, Nick $3,600,000$3,600,000 RD UFA
Xhekaj, Arber $1,500,000$1,500,000 LD/RD RFA

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Xhekaj, Florian $975,000$975,000 LW, RW RFA - 2		Price, Carey $10,500,000$10,500,000 G NMC UFA - 1
Mesar, Filip $918,333$918,333 RW, C RFA - 1
Kidney, Riley $836,667$836,667 ($57,500$58K) C RFA - 1

Top Comments

Mar. 12 at 9:01 p.m.

wojme

Joined: Jun. 2017

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I'm assuming he does that every off-season.

Mar. 12 at 9:08 p.m.

Claesson4Norris

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Not sure which is more silly, Crosby choosing MTL, or Crosby playing 2nd fiddle to Nick Suzuki

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Mar. 12 at 9:11 p.m.

Caufield

Sennecke is a gem

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Quoting: Claesson4Norris

Not sure which is more silly, Crosby choosing MTL, or Crosby playing 2nd fiddle to Nick Suzuki

Why wouldn't he go to MTL? Every reason to go. He's gonna be 38 by that time, Suzuki is gonna outplay him

Mar. 12 at 9:15 p.m.

Claesson4Norris

Joined: Jan. 2018

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Quoting: Caufield

Why wouldn't he go to MTL? Every reason to go. He's gonna be 38 by that time, Suzuki is gonna outplay him

If he goes anywhere it's to play with MacKinnon imo, but I don't think he goes anywhere

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Mar. 12 at 9:17 p.m.

Caufield

Sennecke is a gem

Joined: Sep. 2022

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Quoting: Claesson4Norris

If he goes anywhere it's to play with MacKinnon imo, but I don't think he goes anywhere

It's becoming a bit salty in PIT. Def nowhere near certain he leaves, but it could happen. Reports tend to point towards either MTL or COL as the team he would go to, so definitely there is realism to Crosby to MTL

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