Montreal Canadiens 2021-22 opening night

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Created by: HockeyFan7L

Team: 2021-22 Montreal Canadiens

Initial Creation Date: Aug. 12, 2021

Published: Aug. 12, 2021

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

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First post on the site:)

Welcome habs fans and other teams fans (except bruins and leafs one ahah) this is my 2021-22 prediction for the opening night roster for the Montreal Canadiens. Pretty simple for this one I juste made my lines and sign the two remaining RFA :

Jesperi Kotkaniemi (bridge deal : 2x 2,5m) and Ryan Poehling (prove deal 1x 0,9m)

This year will be a diffucult one with the return of the real divisions the habs will be in fight with Tampa Bay, Boston, Toronto, Florida and the poor Ottawa and Detroit. I think the top 3 will be very hard to make so for the habs I will predict a 4th or 5th place with a participation into the Stanley Cup playoff.

My prediction

1. Florida Panthers
2. Tampa Bay Lightning
3. Boston Bruins
4. Montreal Canadiens
5. Toronto Maples leafs
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6. Ottawa Senators
7. Detroit Red Wings

Free Agent Signings

RFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Kotkaniemi, Jesperi		2	$2,500,000
Poehling, Ryan		1	$900,000

Buyouts

Karl Alzner: $1,958,333

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2022
2023
2024

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$81,500,000	$66,687,977	$597,561	$1,475,000	$14,812,023

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
Hoffman, Mike $4,500,000$4,500,000 LW UFA - 3	Kotkaniemi, Jesperi $2,500,000$2,500,000 C UFA - 1	Gallagher, Brendan $6,500,000$6,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 6
Drouin, Jonathan $5,500,000$5,500,000 LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 2	Evans, Jake $750,000$750,000 C UFA - 1	Anderson, Josh $5,500,000$5,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 6
Lehkonen, Artturi $1,150,000$1,150,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Paquette, Cédric $950,000$950,000 C, LW, RW UFA - 1
		Armia, Joel $3,400,000$3,400,000 RW, LW UFA - 4

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
Chiarot, Ben $1,750,000$1,750,000 LD/RD M-NTC UFA - 1	Savard, David $3,500,000$3,500,000 RD UFA - 4	Allen, Jake $2,875,000$2,875,000 G UFA - 2
Kulak, Brett $925,000$925,000 LD/RD UFA - 1	Romanov, Alexander $894,167$894,167 ($637,500$638K) LD RFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Perreault, Mathieu $950,000$950,000 LW, RW, C UFA - 1	Byron, Paul $3,400,000$3,400,000 LW, RW UFA - 2	Weber, Shea $7,857,143$7,857,143 RD UFA - 5
Wideman, Chris $750,000$750,000 RD UFA - 1
Dea, Jean-Sébastien $750,000$750,000 C UFA - 1

Special Teams

Power Play 1
Caufield, C.		Gallagher, B.		Hoffman, M.
	Petry, J.		Suzuki, N.

Power Play 2
Toffoli, T.		Anderson, J.		Kotkaniemi, J.
	Romanov, A.		Drouin, J.

Penalty Kill 1
	Evans, J.	Lehkonen, A.
	Edmundson, J.	Petry, J.

Penalty Kill 2
	Paquette, C.	Armia, J.
	Chiarot, B.	Savard, D.

Aug. 12, 2021 at 11:59 p.m.

Kotkaniemi15

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Welcome to CapFriendly!

The KK and Poehling contracts are exactly what I’d expect as well.

This is a good prediction of what opening night might look like. The only change I might make is to split up Savard and Chiarot to give the two defensive defensemen a counterpart who provides a little offense.

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Aug. 13, 2021 at 12:13 a.m.

FiveForFighting

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Nailed it. As it stands, if nothing changes, this is the lineup and the line combinations 100%. I would simply put Poehling instead of Dea as a scratch because hes entering his D +5 year and he deserves to be with the team. Wild card is Norlinder at camp that could force Kulak out of the lineup. If thats the case, I expect the D to be :

Edmundson Petry
Chariot Norlinder
Romanov Savard

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Aug. 13, 2021 at 12:32 a.m.

habitantlecolon

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Hey salut bienvenue sur le site !! Tu va voir c'est mieux que HFboards ou autre car ici y'a pas la limite linguistique, but beware sometime people bite hard when they are not happy. As for your roster, I would only swap Paquette and Evans for firsts few games to see if the veteran can outperform the kids and then give a chance to Evans or even Poehling.

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Aug. 13, 2021 at 8:17 a.m.

OldmanWebber

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You are signing Poehling to a prove it 1 year deal than not letting him prove it? I think he makes the opening night roster to be honest!

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Aug. 14, 2021 at 10:24 p.m.

Habs4ever

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Quoting: OldmanWebber

You are signing Poehling to a prove it 1 year deal than not letting him prove it? I think he makes the opening night roster to be honest!

I don't know if Poehling makes opening roster but I'm glad someone is finally mentioning him. His speed, size, shot and smarts were impressive last season in Laval. He is knocking on the door.

Aug. 14, 2021 at 10:35 p.m.

ricochetii

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I'd put Poehling in over Paquette opening night.
I'm not sure if it's better to have him watch first then throw him in cold, or let him hit the ground running, but I'd like to see him get a real opportunity as early as possible.

I'll also caution again about playing Drouin (or Hoffman) with Evans, whatever line that might be. Evans is our defacto Danault replacement, and you don't necessarily want either player in those tougher assignments.

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Aug. 15, 2021 at 12:31 a.m.

HockeyFan7L

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Quoting: Kotkaniemi15

Thanks you! And I know the second pair are too much defensive and not mobile.. But maybe we will have a surprise and Romanov will surprise us and deserve his place on the 2nd pair, to be honest I hope it will happen

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Aug. 15, 2021 at 12:34 a.m.

HockeyFan7L

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Quoting: FiveForFighting

I really think we will have a battle between Dea and Poehling, but at worst, Poehling can start at Laval and dominate and get a call. I hope Poehling can do a little of the work that Danault was doing

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Aug. 15, 2021 at 12:39 a.m.

HockeyFan7L

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Quoting: habitantlecolon

Heyy c'est cool qui a des québécois ici, j'étais pas trop sûr alors j'avais écrit mon texte en anglais

J'ai hâte de voir ça, il va avoir beaucoup de poste à gagner cette année autant qui va jouer sur la 3 entre Paquette Evans ou Poehling ou même être dans le 13-14 attaquants dans la NHL (Dea, Poehling, Ylonen), perso si Poehling gagne pas sa place sur le top 12 j'espère qu'il va jouer quelque matchs à Laval pour dominer (je sais pas si il peut ou qu'il doit passer par le ballotage).

Aug. 15, 2021 at 12:45 a.m.

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HockeyFan7L

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Quoting: ricochetii

Personally I think if you put Drouin with Evans is not really bad because we won't just see a trio against the opposit big trios anymore, I don't think Evans can do the job Danault was doing. Everyone will have to get be in the mix (Suzuki, KK and Evans)

Aug. 15, 2021 at 1:13 a.m.

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ricochetii

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Quoting: HockeyFan7L

Evans will not be as effective as Danault, but he will be inheriting defensive zone draws. You don't want wingers with him that aren't known for their two-way game.

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Aug. 15, 2021 at 1:01 p.m.

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habitantlecolon

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Quoting: HockeyFan7L

Heyy c'est cool qui a des québécois ici, j'étais pas trop sûr alors j'avais écrit mon texte en anglais

Plus de 60% ici peuvent écrire français usuellement (côté fan canadiens) mais ne le font pas par peur de vivre du speak white ou les insolences comme sur HFBOARDS. Je fais partie des anciens du forum du tricolore ou de capgeek où c'était encore possible de chatter en français. ne reste que les sites de rumeurs quebs encore debout qui nous le permettent. Alors autant envahir ici depuis la mort de Matthew Wuest (capgeek) et l'impossibilité de le faire sur HFboards (raciste et mal élevé) !!

Même le franglais est pas si pire icitte par moment. Quand je vois un nouveau je fais souvent l'introduction en 2 langues pour avoir souvent t'as réaction actuelle !!

Have fun and cheers for HABS

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