Habs shouldn't trade Price/Weber : Here's why

Created by: HockeyWise

Team: 2018-19 Montreal Canadiens

Initial Creation Date: Sep. 10, 2018

Published: Sep. 10, 2018

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

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Left Handed

Original Team

Waivers Exempt

Right Handed

Position

Trade Clause

Max Perf. Bonus

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Term Remaining

McDavid, Connor

$12,500,000 ( Performance Bonus

$250,000)

NMC

UFA - 5

Description

Habs need to keep those two guys. Yes they could get picks and prospects and rebuild from scratch but that's not necessarily gonna work. My example is the Edmonton Oilers. They had almost no veteran players to help out all their top 5 picks from 2010 to 2015, struggled and struggled, and we can still argue that it's still the case today. Young players playing around great Veterans like Weber, Price, Gallagher, Petry will help their development. They need mentors. It will also make the team half decent so they don't get destroyed every single game. It will provide them more confidence and will to play the game. Otherwise the team will look like the Sabres and Oilers, and spend 5 years (being generous) and still not make the playoffs.

Trades

MTL

ANA

Additional Details:

Here's what the Trade Block should be (not implying we should trade all of them)

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

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
20	$79,500,000	$58,248,809	$0	$2,032,500	$21,251,191

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Drouin, Jonathan $5,500,000$5,500,000 LW, RW UFA - 5	Shaw, Andrew $3,900,000$3,900,000 C, RW UFA - 4	Gallagher, Brendan $3,750,000$3,750,000 RW, LW UFA - 3
	Danault, Phillip $3,083,333$3,083,333 C UFA - 3	Armia, Joel $1,850,000$1,850,000 RW, LW UFA - 1
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	Scherbak, Nikita $863,333$863,333 ($175,000$175K) LW, RW UFA - 1
Byron, Paul $1,166,667$1,166,667 LW, RW UFA - 1	Peca, Matthew $1,300,000$1,300,000 LW, C UFA - 2
Deslauriers, Nicolas $950,000$950,000 LW, RW UFA - 2	De La Rose, Jacob $900,000$900,000 C, LW UFA - 2
Hudon, Charles $650,000$650,000 C, LW, RW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
	Weber, Shea $7,857,143$7,857,143 RD UFA - 8	Price, Carey $10,500,000$10,500,000 G NMC UFA - 8
	Petry, Jeff $5,500,000$5,500,000 RD M-NTC, NMC UFA - 3	Niemi, Antti $950,000$950,000 G UFA - 1
	Juulsen, Noah $863,333$863,333 ($425,000$425K) RD UFA - 2
Mete, Victor $748,333$748,333 ($182,500$182K) LD/RD UFA - 2
Ouellet, Xavier $700,000$700,000 LD/RD UFA - 1

Top Comments

Sep. 10, 2018 at 7:44 p.m.

F50marco

Joined: May 2015

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I'm all for trading Lehkonen if the return is nice but he should not be "shopped" as if he's any of the other guys on that list. Lehkonen is a good, young, cost controlled player. You don't put guys like him on the trade block.

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Sep. 10, 2018 at 7:54 p.m.

HockeyWise

Joined: Nov. 2017

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Likes: 209

Quoting: F50marco

I think we have a surplus at LW and should trade Lehkonen while other teams still see upside in him to get the most value. But yeah shouldn't be on a trade block you're right.

Sep. 10, 2018 at 7:56 p.m.

alexgoodyear

Joined: May 2017

Posts: 248

Likes: 29

If we have a surplus at LW the last guy traded should be Lehkonen... this guys going to be a big player on the team going forward. Also I think they should keep Tatar. Good cap hit and has potential for a 25-25 season

Sep. 10, 2018 at 8:14 p.m.

Bigphil

Joined: Jul. 2018

Posts: 1,005

Likes: 243

Good presentation of Price and Weber role. I think the same way.

Sep. 10, 2018 at 8:20 p.m.

F50marco

Joined: May 2015

Posts: 19,572

Likes: 6,716

Quoting: HockeyWise

I think we have a surplus at LW and should trade Lehkonen while other teams still see upside in him to get the most value. But yeah shouldn't be on a trade block you're right.

Yup agreed on the surplus at that position for sure. Gonna need to figure that out eventually. The nice thing about wingers is they can play both sides pretty easily though. So I'm not too worried.

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