Patch is out, let's rebuild

Created by: Chuckforit

Team: 2018-19 Montreal Canadiens

Initial Creation Date: Sep. 10, 2018

Published: Sep. 10, 2018

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Let's not kid ourselves, we are going no where this year without a miracle.

Since Weber is out until december, Byron and Shaw as well, we don't stand a chance against the Antlantic division.

I was at the season tickets holder summit at the Bell Center yesterday and the whole Paccioretty case was supposedly dealt with as they were dealing with his agent and blablabla...

Now, we all know how those discussions where going... But that's not the point. The point is; This organisation is so opaque in terms of truth, they should be audited by Muller and be thrown off Twitter.

The Patch trade is great for the future, but at the same time proves that Bergevin gets rid of anyone who is slitly discouraged by this team's tenure.

Let's pretend that we are 'optimistic' about this season, as Geoff Molson said yesterday during the summit. Heck, the food and the drinks options are better at the Bell Center now! This'll make the team losing way more acceptable!

Jokes aside, we need to make way to the younger prospects and clean out the remaining Bob Gainey - Pierre Gauthier era players. Plekanec can stay for this season and retire as a Canadiens, but starting next season it's all out for the young guns.

Tanking is an option, but Jack Hughes will be tough to get if we don't end the season last place.

I would make recurrent changes in the line up this season for the prospects we have, such as:

Audette - C (Last season as a RFA)
Jake Evans - C
Lukas Vejdemo - C, LW, RW
Will Bitten - C
Antoine Waked - RW
Jeremiah Addison - LW
Kenny Agostino - LW
Michael Chaput - C

Victor Mete - LHD (Give him a chance to create some offence)
Noah Juulsen - RHD (Same as Mete)
Julius Honka - RHD (Schlemko was dead weight)
Brett Lernout - RHD
Xavier Ouellet - LHD
Ryan Sproul - RHD (UFA pick up)
The 2 LHD slovenian dudes (I ain't writing their names)

Charlie Lindgren - G
Michael McNiven - G
Alec Dillon - G (RFA hostile offer to LA, they probably won't match it since he played for the University of Victoria in his last rookie contract year).

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All in all, lack of transparency and utter refusal to admit that we are rebuilding is what got us here.

Free Agent Signings

RFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Dillon, Alec		3	$650,000

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Sproul, Ryan		2	$850,000

Trades

MTL

Honka, Julius

DAL

Schlemko, David

Buyouts

Steve Mason: $1,366,667

Retained Salary Transactions

Max Pacioretty: $450,000 (10%)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2019
2020
2021

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LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
33	$79,500,000	$65,905,511	$0	$2,587,500	$13,594,489

Roster

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Drouin, Jonathan $5,500,000$5,500,000 LW, RW UFA - 5	Danault, Phillip $3,083,333$3,083,333 C UFA - 3	Gallagher, Brendan $3,750,000$3,750,000 RW, LW UFA - 3
Domi, Max $3,150,000$3,150,000 C, RW UFA - 2	Plekanec, Tomas $2,250,000$2,250,000 ($1,250,000$1M) C UFA - 1	Tatar, Tomas $4,800,000$4,800,000 LW, RW UFA - 3
Lehkonen, Artturi $839,166$839,166 LW, RW UFA - 1	Peca, Matthew $1,300,000$1,300,000 LW, C UFA - 2	Armia, Joel $1,850,000$1,850,000 RW, LW UFA - 1
Deslauriers, Nicolas $950,000$950,000 LW, RW UFA - 2	De La Rose, Jacob $900,000$900,000 C, LW UFA - 2	Scherbak, Nikita $863,333$863,333 ($175,000$175K) LW, RW UFA - 1
Hudon, Charles $650,000$650,000 C, LW, RW UFA - 1	Froese, Byron $650,000$650,000 C UFA - 1	McCarron, Michael $874,125$874,125 RW, C UFA - 1
	Audette, Daniel $668,333$668,333 C UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Alzner, Karl $4,625,000$4,625,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 4	Petry, Jeff $5,500,000$5,500,000 RD M-NTC, NMC UFA - 3	Price, Carey $10,500,000$10,500,000 G NMC UFA - 8
Benn, Jordie $1,100,000$1,100,000 LD/RD UFA - 1	Juulsen, Noah $863,333$863,333 ($425,000$425K) RD UFA - 2	Niemi, Antti $950,000$950,000 G UFA - 1
Mete, Victor $748,333$748,333 ($182,500$182K) LD/RD UFA - 2	Honka, Julius $863,333$863,333 ($500,000$500K) RD UFA - 1	Lindgren, Charlie $750,000$750,000 G UFA - 3
Reilly, Mike $725,000$725,000 LD UFA - 1	Lernout, Brett $653,333$653,333 RD UFA - 1	McNiven, Michael $682,222$682,222 ($55,000$55K) G UFA - 2
Ouellet, Xavier $700,000$700,000 LD/RD UFA - 1	Sproul, Ryan $850,000$850,000 RD UFA	Dillon, Alec $650,000$650,000 G RFA
Moravčík, Michal $925,000$925,000 LD RFA - 2
Sklenička, David $925,000$925,000 LD UFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
		Shaw, Andrew $3,900,000$3,900,000 C, RW UFA - 4
		Weber, Shea $7,857,143$7,857,143 RD UFA - 8
		Byron, Paul $1,166,667$1,166,667 LW, RW UFA - 1

Special Teams

Power Play 1
Drouin, J.		Danault, P.		Gallagher, B.
	Petry, J.		Alzner, K.

Power Play 2
Domi, M.		Plekanec, T.		Tatar, T.
	Juulsen, N.		Mete, V.

Penalty Kill 1
	Plekanec, T.	Gallagher, B.
	Alzner, K.	Petry, J.

Penalty Kill 2
	Danault, P.	Deslauriers, N.
	Benn, J.	Honka, J.

Top Comments

Sep. 10, 2018 at 11:27 a.m.

Herms17

Pass it to Lucic

Joined: Apr. 2018

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wait, how are you getting Honka for Schlemko?

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Sep. 10, 2018 at 11:44 a.m.

shiver6am

Joined: Jul. 2018

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Yeah I think you've missed entirely what Julius Honka's trade value is. He would be a central piece in acquiring EK from OTT.

Sep. 10, 2018 at 12:11 p.m.

ThatGuy

Sports and Tacos

Joined: Apr. 2018

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Montreal, with a healthy Carey Price, will always be in the running for a playoff spot. If you want to truly rebuild, you guys would need to trade him away..

Also,

Quoting: shiver6am

Yeah I think you've missed entirely what Julius Honka's trade value is. He would be a central piece in acquiring EK from OTT.

This is False. He might be a piece. But he's no where near the central piece or the trade would've happened a long time ago.

Sep. 10, 2018 at 3:02 p.m.

NuttySquirrel

Joined: Feb. 2017

Posts: 258

Likes: 50

Quoting: ThatGuy

Montreal, with a healthy Carey Price, will always be in the running for a playoff spot. If you want to truly rebuild, you guys would need to trade him away..

Also,

This is False. He might be a piece. But he's no where near the central piece or the trade would've happened a long time ago.

I think he was being sarcastic

Sep. 10, 2018 at 4:35 p.m.

ThatGuy

Sports and Tacos

Joined: Apr. 2018

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Quoting: NuttySquirrel

I think he was being sarcastic

lol didn't catch the sarcasm

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