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Created by: MarcBergevin69

Team: 2021-22 Montreal Canadiens

Initial Creation Date: Jul. 4, 2021

Published: Jul. 4, 2021

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

Feel free to leave comments on what you think of these moves.

I think Montreal needs to build off this cup finals appearance, build around the youth, and be mindful of our cap situation. These past years of playoffs have really shown that depth / having players on good contracts can be more important than Star power, to a certain extent. The tabs have star power on the raise with Suzuki and Caufield, and eventually Kotkaniemi. No need to overpay for a Star forward anymore.

Habs sign Oleskiak, 28 years old, to a 3x3 to replace chariot (upgrade) who can be moved if we need cap space for a young prospect defence on an entry level deal if needed. (Guhle)

On defence, Habs let Kulak walk next year and bring in Jordan Harris on an entry level deal. Give Guhle, Norlinder, Struble, Brook and the rest a couple more years to properly develop their game, maybe giving them a couple NHL games here and there.

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Fleury, Cale	1	$800,000
Kotkaniemi, Jesperi	2	$2,000,000
Lehkonen, Artturi	2	$2,500,000
Poehling, Ryan	1	$1,000,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Armia, Joel	2	$2,500,000
Perry, Corey	2	$2,000,000
Danault, Phillip	5	$5,000,000
Oleksiak, Jamie	3	$3,000,000

Trades

MTL

Nichushkin, Valeri

Additional Details:

MTL takes advantage of Colorado's cap situation and acquire a stud 3rd line player.

MTL extends him to a 3x3 after making the trade.

Colorado gets a young D prospect on a two way contract + a pick and move on from Nischushkin to sign their star players.

COL

Fleury, Cale
2021 3rd round pick (CHI)

MTL

Seattle takes a gamble on Drouin. Extremely high skill player, won't be many players like him available.

SEA

Drouin, Jonathan

MTL

2021 3rd round pick (NYR)

Additional Details:

Rangers get a defensemen with playoff experience in hopes to make the post season next year. One year left on his contract, so the cap hit isn't much of a concern.

NYR

Chiarot, Ben

MTL

Cap dump for MTL in preparation to sign Suzuki next year to a 8x8 or something around that.

Ottawa gets a depth player with experience to help make playoff push. Byron can contribute from the bottom 6.

OTT

Byron, Paul
2021 3rd round pick (WSH)

Buyouts

Karl Alzner: $1,958,333

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2021
2022
2023

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
21	$81,500,000	$65,945,120	$597,561	$1,475,000	$15,554,880

Roster

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Toffoli, Tyler $2,125,000$2,125,000 RW, LW UFA - 3	Suzuki, Nick $863,333$863,333 ($537,500$538K) C UFA - 1	Caufield, Cole $880,833$880,833 ($300,000$300K) LW, RW UFA - 2
Nichushkin, Valeri $2,500,000$2,500,000 RW, LW UFA - 1	Kotkaniemi, Jesperi $2,000,000$2,000,000 C UFA - 1	Anderson, Josh $5,500,000$5,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 6
Poehling, Ryan $1,000,000$1,000,000 C, LW UFA - 2	Danault, Phillip $5,000,000$5,000,000 C UFA - 6	Gallagher, Brendan $6,500,000$6,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 6
Armia, Joel $2,500,000$2,500,000 RW, LW UFA - 4	Evans, Jake $750,000$750,000 C UFA - 1	Perry, Corey $2,000,000$2,000,000 RW UFA - 2
Lehkonen, Artturi $2,500,000$2,500,000 LW, RW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Edmundson, Joel $875,000$875,000 LD/RD M-NTC UFA - 3	Petry, Jeff $2,343,750$2,343,750 RD M-NTC, NMC UFA - 4	Price, Carey $10,500,000$10,500,000 G NMC UFA - 5
Romanov, Alexander $894,167$894,167 ($637,500$638K) LD RFA - 1	Weber, Shea $7,857,143$7,857,143 RD UFA - 5	Allen, Jake $2,875,000$2,875,000 G UFA - 2
Oleksiak, Jamie $3,000,000$3,000,000 LD/RD UFA - 5	Kulak, Brett $925,000$925,000 LD/RD UFA - 1

Special Teams

Power Play 1
Perry, C.		Kotkaniemi, J.		Suzuki, N.
	Caufield, C.		Romanov, A.

Power Play 2
Poehling, R.		Toffoli, T.		Gallagher, B.
	Weber, S.		Petry, J.

Jul. 4, 2021 at 6:52 p.m.

coga16

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Bc nuke is cheaper he is the last guy they move bc of cap

Fluery is not waiver exempt, easy decline

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Jul. 4, 2021 at 6:56 p.m.

TheBoyDuddus

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Two years at 3.4m is going to cost you more than. 3rd to get someone to take on. He’s a 4th line player who’s been scratched this season as well. At least a 2nd to take that cap dump.

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Jul. 4, 2021 at 7:02 p.m.

siamro

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If Oleksiak is going to Montreal it would have to be for more than $3M. He could easily get that to stay in Dallas and the taxes are so much less.

Jul. 4, 2021 at 7:03 p.m.

Xqb15a

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The Avs have about $25.5M in cap space assuming they lose Graves (most likely) or Donskoi(2nd most likely) they will have nearly $29M in cap space, the narrative they are tight to the cap just isn’t true. Even assuming they give Makar $10M, Landy $7.5M and Grubauer $6.5M they still have cap space. In addition Nichushkin makes $2.5M, a guy like Compher is a much more likely to be moved in a cap trade because Nichushkin is affordable, and with Jost form 2/3rds of a very solid 3 line that is great metrically and rather in expensive.

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Jul. 4, 2021 at 7:11 p.m.

sensibleguy

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Edited Jul. 5, 2021 at 2:25 a.m.

MTL
Cap dump for MTL in preparation to sign Suzuki next year to a 8x8 or something around that.

Ottawa gets a depth player with experience to help make playoff push. Byron can contribute from the bottom 6.
OTT
Byron, Paul
2021 3rd round pick (WSH)

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Pass, again, and again, and again...

Byron doesn't beat out Formenton, Dadonov, Watson, or Paul for botton6 winger, and he's certainly not beating out Tkachuk, Stützle, CBrown, or Batherson for top6 winger.

If you want to clear cap space, pretend Seattle would take Byron with a draft pick, they might take it to stock their juniors/minors systems

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