A Offseason Trade I would bet money on happening

Created by: Black61

Team: 2024-25 Montreal Canadiens

Initial Creation Date: Mar. 17, 2024

Published: Mar. 17, 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

If you had to ask me today to name one trade that I had to bet on happening between today and puck drop next season this would be it.

Arizona has now for a few years collected insurance contracts to avoid meeting the salary floor. The deadline where they basically dumped a bunch of salary for essentially no return also supports this notion.

Little and vorachek are up this year so they need to find a new contract that has a cap hit that far exceeds the actual payout.

Price's deal depending on which reports you believe is covered somewhere between 85 and 100 percent. So even on the low end if hes traded after summer signing bonus the coyotes get 21 million in cap spend for at most 1.5 million.

Habs get a bit of flexibility in not dealing with ltir and the broke coyotes can avoid spending actual money.

Maybe some minor pick movement but thats the basis.

Trades

MTL

ARI

Price, Carey

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
19	$83,500,000	$68,838,750	$1,022,500	$3,977,500	$14,661,250

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	Gallagher, Brendan $6,500,000$6,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 3
Harvey-Pinard, Rafaël $1,100,000$1,100,000 LW, RW RFA - 1	Newhook, Alex $2,900,000$2,900,000 C, LW RFA - 3	Anderson, Josh $5,500,000$5,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 3
Roy, Joshua $835,000$835,000 LW, RW RFA - 2	Evans, Jake $1,700,000$1,700,000 C UFA - 1	Armia, Joel $3,400,000$3,400,000 RW, LW UFA - 1
Pezzetta, Michael $812,500$812,500 LW, RW UFA - 1		Slafkovsky, Juraj $950,000$950,000 ($3,500,000$4M) RW, LW RFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Matheson, Michael $4,875,000$4,875,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 2	Savard, David $3,500,000$3,500,000 RD UFA - 1	Montembeault, Samuel $3,150,000$3,150,000 G UFA - 3
Harris, Jordan $1,400,000$1,400,000 LD/RD RFA - 1	Kovacevic, Johnathan $766,667$766,667 RD UFA - 1	Primeau, Cayden $890,000$890,000 G RFA - 1
Struble, Jayden $867,500$867,500 ($57,500$58K) LD RFA - 1
Guhle, Kaiden $863,333$863,333 ($420,000$420K) LD/RD RFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
	Dvorak, Christian $4,450,000$4,450,000 C M-NTC UFA - 1
	Dach, Kirby $3,362,500$3,362,500 C, RW RFA - 2

Top Comments

Mar. 17 at 5:10 p.m.

palhal

LongtimeLeafsufferer

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Good thought. The LTIR doesn't affect the cap in the 24/25 or 25/26 if the salary and bonuses don't go over 87.7m in 24/25..
But you're right.....Arizona might go "LTIR hunting" this summer.

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Mar. 17 at 5:14 p.m.

MountRoyal

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Joined: May 2016

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Makes a lot of sense!

Mar. 17 at 5:17 p.m.

Black61

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Quoting: palhal

Good thought. The LTIR doesn't affect the cap in the 24/25 or 25/26 if the salary and bonuses don't go over 87.7m in 24/25..
But you're right.....Arizona might go "LTIR hunting" this summer.

Arizona will just put price on regular IR just like Weber currently is for them. They wont come remotely close to spending actually money to need to wprry abput ltir.

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Mar. 17 at 5:20 p.m.

Yotes269

Joined: Apr. 2021

Posts: 2,173

Likes: 1,000

We have an entire defense to sign, plus hayton, we’re not going to be near the floor or in need of price.

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Mar. 17 at 5:21 p.m.

ginandtacos

Joined: Jun. 2016

Posts: 839

Likes: 958

This makes sense, it's time for MTL to move on. But it might be more than minor pick movement to incentivize ARI to take it. I know ARI is an LTIR dumping ground but MTL is still asking another franchise to do them a favor, so.

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