Steady rebuild - MN trade

Created by: MTLaveragefan

Team: 2024-25 Montreal Canadiens

Initial Creation Date: Mar. 13, 2024

Published: Mar. 13, 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

Looking at Minnesota, They have a good RD with Spurgeon and Faber, but it's looking week on the LD and they don't have a good LHD PMD.

PLUS, they are tight with the cap, but still want to compete.

With Matheson at the hight of his value, it could be wise to trade him out (even if I think he could stick around an extra year and it wouldn't hurt).

With a Top 15 pick OR Yurov, MN could probably make an enticing offer to KH for Matheson.

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST	YEARS	CAP HIT
Engström, Adam	3	$900,000
Hutson, Lane	3	$900,000
Kapanen, Oliver	3	$900,000
Tuch, Luke	3	$900,000

RFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Barron, Justin		2	$2,100,000
Xhekaj, Arber		4	$2,400,000

Trades

MTL

Gaudreau, Frédérick
2024 1st round pick (MIN)
2024 2nd round pick (MIN)

MIN

Matheson, Michael
2024 2nd round pick (COL)

Additional Details:

Great PMD- LHD on a dirt cheap contract (4.8M$) - can instantly slot on the top pair with Faber or Spurgeon.

Retained Salary Transactions

Jeff Petry: $2,343,750 (50%)
Jake Allen: $1,925,000 (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	$70,626,250	$1,022,500	$3,977,500	$16,873,750

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
Newhook, Alex $2,900,000$2,900,000 C, LW RFA - 3	Dach, Kirby $3,362,500$3,362,500 C, RW RFA - 2	Roy, Joshua $835,000$835,000 LW, RW RFA - 2
Anderson, Josh $5,500,000$5,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 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	Gaudreau, Frédérick $2,100,000$2,100,000 C, LW M-NTC UFA - 4	Evans, Jake $1,700,000$1,700,000 C 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	Savard, David $3,500,000$3,500,000 RD UFA - 1	Montembeault, Samuel $3,150,000$3,150,000 G UFA - 3
Xhekaj, Arber $2,400,000$2,400,000 LD/RD RFA	Mailloux, Logan $875,000$875,000 RD RFA - 2	Primeau, Cayden $890,000$890,000 G RFA - 1
Harris, Jordan $1,400,000$1,400,000 LD/RD RFA - 1	Barron, Justin $2,100,000$2,100,000 RD RFA
Struble, Jayden $867,500$867,500 ($57,500$58K) LD RFA - 1	Kovacevic, Johnathan $766,667$766,667 RD UFA - 1