All the right moves Hughes

Created by: jonh514

Team: 2024-25 Montreal Canadiens

Initial Creation Date: Apr. 14, 2024

Published: Apr. 14, 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

The Habs assets that they can spend in order to make this team better are:

-A ton of draft picks which they won't have room to sign if they use them
-A ton of cap space

They actually don't have a lot of players to trade which other teams want. If they can sign a couple of free agents to bolster the top 6 using their cap space, this team can make BIG inroads next year. Here's the moves I see that may be reasonable:

1) Find a way to dump Anderson so we can sign better free agents
2) Sign Monahan & Lindholm to be your veteran 2nd line
3) Give Barron a Harris-style deal and have them duke it out for along with Struble & Xhekaj for the bottom pair

I know most Habs fans only want players around Nick & Cole's ages, but these are the 2 players we can realistically sign without trading away the future.

Free Agent Signings

RFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Barron, Justin		2	$1,400,000
Xhekaj, Arber		2	$1,400,000

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Monahan, Sean		5	$6,250,000
Lindholm, Elias		5	$6,500,000

Trades

MTL

SJS

Anderson, Josh
Evans, Jake
2024 3rd round pick (MIN)
2025 2nd round pick (PIT)
2025 3rd round pick (VAN)

Additional Details:

@RecycleShark led me to believe there may be an appetite to take Anderson's deal.

The compensation is basically covering his overpaid salary over 3 years. He's overpaid by about 2.5M/year based on what he brings to the game.

I will also add that his lack of willingness to work with a mental performance coach was the nail in the coffin for me. After the treatment Armia received and his turnaround... Anderson should be willing to try anything.

I value Evans at about a 3rd or maybe a 2nd. Consider that to be a part of the compensation for taking Anderson along with a 3rd round pick per year

MTL

ANA

Kovacevic, Johnathan

Additional Details:

Anywhere for anything

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
23	$87,500,000	$77,372,083	$1,022,500	$4,727,500	$10,127,917

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	Slafkovsky, Juraj $950,000$950,000 ($3,500,000$4M) RW, LW RFA - 1
Monahan, Sean $6,250,000$6,250,000 C, LW, RW UFA	Dach, Kirby $3,362,500$3,362,500 C, RW RFA - 2	Lindholm, Elias $6,500,000$6,500,000 C, RW UFA
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
Harvey-Pinard, Rafaël $1,100,000$1,100,000 LW, RW RFA - 1	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
Pezzetta, Michael $812,500$812,500 LW, RW UFA - 1

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
Hutson, Lane $950,000$950,000 ($750,000$750K) LD RFA - 2	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	Harris, Jordan $1,400,000$1,400,000 LD/RD RFA - 1
Xhekaj, Arber $1,400,000$1,400,000 LD/RD RFA	Barron, Justin $1,400,000$1,400,000 RD RFA

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
		Price, Carey $10,500,000$10,500,000 G NMC UFA - 2

Top Comments

Apr. 14 at 10:04 a.m.

GeneralLandro

Joined: Jun. 2021

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Likes: 11,920

I can’t really see that getting a team to take in Anderson’s contract

Apr. 14 at 10:07 a.m.

Kyle_Okposo_Lover

Josh Anderson Sucks

Joined: Feb. 2022

Posts: 4,836

Likes: 2,022

A 1st will be needed to dump Anderson

idk why this is an issue for Habs fans right now. You arent contending and wont for at least 2 more seasons

Hold onto him then pay to dump him later when its not as hard. Not team is adding his term, that's the issue. A lot of players are overpaid but few are for 4 years

Jobob77 liked this.

Apr. 14 at 10:11 a.m.

ht42

Joined: Apr. 2022

Posts: 2,437

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Quoting: GeneralLandro

I can’t really see that getting a team to take in Anderson’s contract

If Montreal rentain somes money : the Flyers.

Josh Anderson was the former favorite player of Torts when he was with Columbus at the time.

Apr. 14 at 10:42 a.m.

Jobob77

Joined: Jul. 2021

Posts: 385

Likes: 125

Quoting: ht42

If Montreal rentain somes money : the Flyers.

Josh Anderson was the former favorite player of Torts when he was with Columbus at the time.

Since HuGo arrival, they are collecting assets. They will continue to do so while they are in a rebuilding state. You don’t dump him with a retention because you will be stuck with salary when you are starting to gave a playoffs contending team. The wise thing to do is to keep him and hope he’ll be better next year. He might suprise and have a positive value next year or the year after.

Apr. 14 at 10:43 a.m.

ht42

Joined: Apr. 2022

Posts: 2,437

Likes: 693

Quoting: Jobob77

The scenario is that Montreal will gonna receive Johansen + picks, but MTL will gonna send also somes Draft picks.

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