Moving up to 1st overall

Created by: JeffGorton

Team: 2023-24 Montreal Canadiens

Initial Creation Date: Mar. 24, 2024

Published: Mar. 24, 2024

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

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McDavid, Connor

$12,500,000 ( Performance Bonus

$250,000)

NMC

UFA - 5

Description

This is with the assumption that the Sharks get 1st overall

Trades

MTL

2024 1st round pick (SJS)

Additional Details:

Sharks are most likely wanting to pick a Dmen, since their future forward group is actually half decent (and the 2025 draft being weak defensively). At pick 5, one of Levshunov, Parekh, Silyaev or Dickinson will be available

SJS

Barron, Justin
Xhekaj, Arber
Xhekaj, Florian [Reserve List]
2024 1st round pick (MTL)
2025 1st round pick (CGY)
2025 3rd round pick (VAN)

Additional Details:

Habs have 5th overall

MTL

2024 1st round pick (MIN)

Additional Details:

Any team with a pick between 13th and 17th overall (Minny is a placeholder as they are one of the teams that could use a LHD with PP specialty)

MIN

Matheson, Michael
2024 1st round pick (WPG)

Additional Details:

Habs use this pick to draft Terik Parascak

Buyouts

Karl Alzner: $833,333

Retained Salary Transactions

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

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
21	$83,500,000	$70,107,083	$1,170,000	$4,035,000	$13,392,917

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	Gallagher, Brendan $6,500,000$6,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 4
Pearson, Tanner $3,250,000$3,250,000 LW UFA - 1	Newhook, Alex $2,900,000$2,900,000 C, LW RFA - 4	Anderson, Josh $5,500,000$5,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 4
Harvey-Pinard, Rafaël $1,100,000$1,100,000 LW, RW RFA - 2	Evans, Jake $1,700,000$1,700,000 C UFA - 2	Armia, Joel $3,400,000$3,400,000 RW, LW UFA - 2
Roy, Joshua $835,000$835,000 ($57,500$58K) LW, RW RFA - 3	White, Colin $775,000$775,000 C, RW UFA - 1	Slafkovsky, Juraj $950,000$950,000 ($3,500,000$4M) RW, LW RFA - 2
Pezzetta, Michael $812,500$812,500 LW, RW UFA - 2		Ylönen, Jesse $775,000$775,000 RW, LW RFA - 1

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

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
	Dvorak, Christian $4,450,000$4,450,000 C M-NTC UFA - 2	Price, Carey $10,500,000$10,500,000 G NMC UFA - 3
	Dach, Kirby $3,362,500$3,362,500 C, RW RFA - 3
	Wideman, Chris $762,500$762,500 RD UFA - 1

Top Comments

Mar. 24 at 4:15 p.m.

dgibb10

I Love J Boqvist

Joined: Jan. 2023

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Yeah that is not nearly enough to get celebrini.

Replace Xhekaj, Xhekaj, Barron, and the 3rd with another top 10 pick and you'd be there value wise.

The gap between 1st and 5th value wise is about equivalent to somewhere betwen the 3rd and 4th overall pick

Now tell me, if you had 4th overall and a team offered you a contender's 2025 1st, 3rd, Barron, and Xhekaj, would you trade it?

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Mar. 24 at 4:21 p.m.

JeffGorton

Jeff Gorton

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Quoting: dgibb10

Yeah that is not nearly enough to get celebrini.

Arent you one of the folks that said Monahan wasnt getting a 1st? You dont seem to learn that you have no idea about value or simply ignore all context with trades. Its time NHL fans sat down and listened to Habs fans who have been proven right more often than wrong

Mar. 24 at 4:22 p.m.

SlickWilly

Joined: Nov. 2017

Posts: 3,232

Likes: 2,168

I guess it really depends on what's gonna happen with that Calgary pick. My favorite pick value tool is puckpedia, and according to them, a fair trade up from 5 to 1 would be something like

SJ Sharks receive : 2024 5th overall, 2024 6th overall, 2024 58th overall
MTL receives : 2024 1st overall

If you think whoever holds the 6th overall pick would accept Barron, Xhekaj squared, and calgary's 2025 1st rounder for it, then its probably of fair value. I think the Sharks in this specific instance would probably prefer more quality over quantity, especially if youre trading the 1st overall pick

Mar. 24 at 4:23 p.m.

Kyle_Okposo_Lover

Josh Anderson Sucks

Joined: Feb. 2022

Posts: 4,822

Likes: 2,011

Islanders would do a pick swap. Lets say 14OVR for 30OVR and Matheson.

Mar. 24 at 4:25 p.m.

dgibb10

I Love J Boqvist

Joined: Jan. 2023

Posts: 11,933

Likes: 3,148

Quoting: JeffGorton

I said NJD wouldn't pay a 1st for Monahan because he is too slow and doesn't fill a need
I said that there is no way a fringe playoff team offers an unprotected 1st for Monahan
I said Monahan wouldn't return a 1st+

No team is trading celebrini.

let alone for a collection of spare parts.

The historical value of a 1st overall is equivalent to 4th overall+5th overall combined.

Now tell me, would you trade your 5th overall pick for Arber Xhekaj and a contender's 1st?

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