New Third Pairing Next Year

Created by: Anus_McLeod

Team: 2024-25 Colorado Avalanche

Initial Creation Date: Apr. 4, 2024

Published: Apr. 4, 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

Similar to my other recent ACGMs but a little different.

The team would need to have a lot of confidence in Kovalenko and/or Foudy to go this route, as one of them would need to be 3C. Having Landeskog on the wing would be a huge help and set them up for success.

Moving Colton not only frees cap to sign Mitts, but it also allows them to make an offer to Drouin. He'd have to take less to stay, but I do think that's a possibility.

Free Agent Signings

RFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Mittelstadt, Casey		6	$6,000,000

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Aho, Sebastian		1	$900,000
Drouin, Jonathan		1	$2,000,000

Trades

COL

MTL

Colton, Ross
2024 4th round pick (COL)

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
22	$87,700,000	$87,672,917	$0	$57,500	$27,083

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Drouin, Jonathan $2,000,000$2,000,000 LW, RW UFA	MacKinnon, Nathan $12,600,000$12,600,000 C NMC UFA - 7	Rantanen, Mikko $9,250,000$9,250,000 RW, C M-NTC UFA - 1
Lehkonen, Artturi $4,500,000$4,500,000 LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 3	Mittelstadt, Casey $6,000,000$6,000,000 LW, C RFA	Nichushkin, Valeri $6,125,000$6,125,000 RW, LW NMC UFA - 6
Landeskog, Gabriel $7,000,000$7,000,000 LW, C NMC UFA - 5	Foudy, Jean-Luc $847,500$847,500 C RFA - 1	Kovalenko, Nikolai $896,250$896,250 ($57,500$58K) RW RFA - 1
Wood, Miles $2,500,000$2,500,000 LW M-NTC UFA - 5	Evans, Jake $1,700,000$1,700,000 C UFA - 1	O'Connor, Logan $1,050,000$1,050,000 RW, LW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Toews, Devon $7,250,000$7,250,000 LD NMC UFA - 7	Makar, Cale $9,000,000$9,000,000 RD UFA - 3	Georgiev, Alexandar $3,400,000$3,400,000 G UFA - 1
Girard, Samuel $5,000,000$5,000,000 LD/RD M-NTC UFA - 3	Manson, Josh $4,500,000$4,500,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 2	Annunen, Justus $837,500$837,500 G RFA - 2
Aho, Sebastian $900,000$900,000 LD UFA	Kovacevic, Johnathan $766,667$766,667 RD UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Wagner, Chris $775,000$775,000 RW, C UFA - 1
Middleton, Keaton $775,000$775,000 LD UFA - 1

Top Comments

Apr. 4 at 2:19 p.m.

JeffGorton

Jeff Gorton

Joined: Oct. 2020

Posts: 2,228

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Habs do not want Ross Colton unless there are multiple 1st rounders in return. He is a cap dump for the Habs.

Apr. 4 at 2:21 p.m.

Antorche

Joined: Aug. 2023

Posts: 34

Likes: 11

Mtl declines IMO I just dont see a justification to take a guy that makes 4M per year. Yes he's an upgrade in term of pts production but he would be a 3C or 2C if someone is injured but he never reached 40 pts in his career. Even if value wise it's fair, I just don't see the point of doing that for MTL.

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Apr. 4 at 2:30 p.m.

habitantlecolon

Le patriote

Joined: Dec. 2018

Posts: 6,381

Likes: 1,415

We would prefer Lehkonen and not trading Evans!

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Apr. 4 at 2:32 p.m.

batman

fromtherivertothesea

Joined: Jul. 2023

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Lehkonen for Evans and Kovacevic

Apr. 4 at 2:34 p.m.

batman

fromtherivertothesea

Joined: Jul. 2023

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Quoting: habitantlecolon

We would prefer Lehkonen and not trading Evans!

I was telling myself the same thing with Jake Evans. But I realized that Evans is probably going to get traded next deadline. He’s slotted in the 4C role, a slot where Owen Beck should replace him.

Realized this while looking at our 2024-25 team

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