Who needs draft picks

Created by: jonh514

Team: 2024-25 Montreal Canadiens

Initial Creation Date: Mar. 31, 2024

Published: Mar. 31, 2024

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McDavid, Connor

$12,500,000 ( Performance Bonus

$250,000)

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UFA - 5

Description

Draft picks are for teams who plan to lose next year. Habs want to compete and win!

This is a playoff team IMO.

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Necas, Martin	6	$7,500,000
Barron, Justin	2	$1,400,000
Xhekaj, Arber	2	$1,400,000

Trades

MTL

Crouse, Lawson

Additional Details:

20 goal winger with size who "more or less" does what Josh Anderson was supposed to do.

ARI

Harvey-Pinard, Rafaël
Kovacevic, Johnathan
2024 1st round pick (WPG)
2025 3rd round pick (NJD)

Additional Details:

This offer is in line with what the Habs paid for Dach & Newhook.

I do not know why the Yotes want to get rid of Crouse, but I see a ton of Crouse trades for less than this value.

MTL

Necas, Martin [RFA Rights]

Additional Details:

Habs get a speedy top 6 winger who can finish to round out their lines

CAR

Farrell, Sean
2024 1st round pick (MTL)

Additional Details:

6 OA pick
Farrell needs a little more seasoning but he's gonna be a good bottom 6 NHLer next year or in 2025

MTL

ANA

Evans, Jake

Additional Details:

Traded anywhere for a 3rd round pick or better

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

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LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$87,500,000	$80,647,083	$1,022,500	$3,977,500	$6,852,917

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Crouse, Lawson $4,300,000$4,300,000 LW, RW UFA - 3	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
Caufield, Cole $7,850,000$7,850,000 LW, RW UFA - 7	Dach, Kirby $3,362,500$3,362,500 C, RW RFA - 2	Necas, Martin $7,500,000$7,500,000 RW RFA
Roy, Joshua $835,000$835,000 LW, RW RFA - 2	Newhook, Alex $2,900,000$2,900,000 C, LW RFA - 3	Armia, Joel $3,400,000$3,400,000 RW, LW UFA - 1
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	Gallagher, Brendan $6,500,000$6,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 3

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

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Pezzetta, Michael $812,500$812,500 LW, RW UFA - 1		Price, Carey $10,500,000$10,500,000 G NMC UFA - 2
Gignac, Brandon $775,000$775,000 C UFA - 1
Harris, Jordan $1,400,000$1,400,000 LD/RD RFA - 1

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Mar. 31 at 9:29 a.m.

Campabee

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One major flaw, to be a playoff team Dach needs to be healthy for a full season and I am not convinced he can be

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Mar. 31 at 9:41 a.m.

jonh514

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Quoting: Campabee

One major flaw, to be a playoff team Dach needs to be healthy for a full season and I am not convinced he can be

I think in that case we have both Necas and Newhook who can jump in at 2C and then we can call up Beck from Laval. How does that sound?

Mar. 31 at 9:45 a.m.

Campabee

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Quoting: jonh514

I think in that case we have both Necas and Newhook who can jump in at 2C and then we can call up Beck from Laval. How does that sound?

Is Necas a viable center? I would think if he was the Canes would use him there over KK. Newhook IMO is not a good center, he just doesn't read the play well enough for me

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Mar. 31 at 9:49 a.m.

jonh514

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Quoting: Campabee

Is Necas a viable center? I would think if he was the Canes would use him there over KK. Newhook IMO is not a good center, he just doesn't read the play well enough for me

Necas has played center before. I think, like Newhook, he's a better winger, but the point is we have options.

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Mar. 31 at 9:51 a.m.

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Quoting: jonh514

Necas has played center before. I think, like Newhook, he's a better winger, but the point is we have options.

I personally would probably try swapping Dach for PLD (even though it's not a popular move on here amongst Habs fans)

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