Moving up at the draft

Created by: KentMcNally

Team: 2023-24 Montreal Canadiens

Initial Creation Date: Apr. 2, 2024

Published: Apr. 2, 2024

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

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Original Team

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Right Handed

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McDavid, Connor

$12,500,000 ( Performance Bonus

$250,000)

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UFA - 5

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If things remained as they are now and Montreal holds the #23 pick and New Jersey holds the #11 pick would New Jersey be willing to trade that pick to Montreal?

The Devils thought that they could be very good this year and that fell apart due to goaltending and defence, but perhaps they are close to competing and not overly interested in waiting for that #11 pick to be a key contributor in 3 or 4 years if they are in a win now mode.

Do Devil fans consider Palat a cap dump (he kind of looks like one to me, given his salary and his production, but I have not watched him much this year)?

If the trade package is not right, how should it be changed (by either team)?

Trades

MTL

Palat, Ondrej
2024 1st round pick (NJD)

NJD

Farrell, Sean
Matheson, Michael
2024 1st round pick (WPG)
2025 2nd round pick (MTL)
2025 2nd round pick (PIT)

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

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$83,500,000	$76,935,416	$1,170,000	$4,035,000	$6,564,584

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
Palat, Ondrej $6,000,000$6,000,000 LW, RW NMC UFA - 4

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
Xhekaj, Arber $828,333$828,333 LD/RD RFA - 1

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

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Apr. 2 at 10:20 a.m.

ht42

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Devils will likely gonna trade their 1st round pick for a top goalie like Markstrom.

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Apr. 2 at 10:29 a.m.

KentMcNally

Fall River Habs

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Quoting: ht42

Devils will likely gonna trade their 1st round pick for a top goalie like Markstrom.

I could see that happening. Although, it is rare for such a high pick to be traded for a goalie, but maybe Calgary and New Jersey work out some other details in a larger trade scenario.

Apr. 2 at 10:37 a.m.

ht42

Joined: Apr. 2022

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Quoting: KentMcNally

I could see that happening. Although, it is rare for such a high pick to be traded for a goalie, but maybe Calgary and New Jersey work out some other details in a larger trade scenario.

It's a ideal scenario for CGY because they will likely gonna want to draft Iginla.

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Apr. 2 at 10:48 a.m.

MoSeider53

Future Norris guy

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Both Devils and Palat say hell no.

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Apr. 2 at 10:51 a.m.

NJDevils1317

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First, no way Palat waives for MTL. Second, why would the Devils be going after quantity over quality? Third, which was addressed in other posts, I can not see the Devils trading a top 15 pick for two years of Markstrom. It is not as if the market is that hot for him that other teams would be offering anything close to that ballpark. Markstrom probably goes for a conditional 2nd at best becoming a 1st if a team reaches the conference finals.

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