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Created by: jonh514

Team: 2022-23 Montreal Canadiens

Initial Creation Date: Apr. 26, 2022

Published: Apr. 26, 2022

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

Hughes was clear in his first press conference that his focus was going to be bringing in players who play with speed of body, hockey sense and reflexes.

All trades/offer sheets here oriented toward either cap dumps or bringing in more players in the mold of "Hughes ideal style".

Draft

-Shane Wright

Trade

-Weber to 'Yotes for nothing. Mutually beneficial, but without trade value as no other team would want this. (CAP DUMP)
-Habs pay a 1st to dump Drouin and Armia in Seattle. Seattle takes a chance that maybe they can rehab one or both of them, and if not they flex their cap to get a 1st. (CAP DUMP)
-Habs send Petry home closer(ish) to his wife's family in Texas
-Habs bring in a top line LW in Kyle Connor, paying dearly in the process. This is one of the fastest skaters in the league who scores often using his wicked wrister. (HUGHES HERO)

Offer Sheet

-Hard to match offer to Kempe in hopes of securing him in a 2nd line role. This is officially the second fastest skater in the league and he may have as good a shot as Connor. (HUGHES HERO)

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Kempe, Adrian	5	$8,200,000
Primeau, Cayden	3	$1,000,000
Romanov, Alexander	3	$3,500,000
Schueneman, Corey	2	$1,000,000
Pitlick, Rem	2	$2,300,000

CREATED		YEARS	CAP HIT
Wright, Shane		3	$925,000

Offer Sheets

Offer sheet annual average (AAV) is calculated by dividing the contract value by the lower of: 1. The contract length, or 2. Five years

PLAYER	AAV	COMPENSATION
Kempe, Adrian	$8,200,000	2023 1st round pick 2023 2nd round pick 2023 3rd round pick

Trades

MTL

Cap Relief

ARI

Weber, Shea

Additional Details:

Reach the cap floor affordably

MTL

Salary Cap Relief

SEA

Armia, Joel
Drouin, Jonathan
2022 1st round pick (CGY)

Additional Details:

Seattle flexes their cap space to land a 1st and gets a couple of enigmatic players who may turn it around in a new market

MTL

2022 2nd round pick (DAL)

Additional Details:

Habs get underpaid for Petry

DAL

Petry, Jeff

Additional Details:

Dallas gets an affordable replacement for Klingberg

MTL

Connor, Kyle

Additional Details:

Habs get a speedy LW with size and skill to play on their top line

WPG

Dvorak, Christian
Guhle, Kaiden
2023 1st round pick (FLA)

Additional Details:

After missing the playoffs, Jets selloff asset for a Roster player, a top prospect and a 1st round pick

Buyouts

Karl Alzner: $833,333

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	$82,500,000	$78,366,189	$1,132,500	$1,570,000	$4,133,811

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Connor, Kyle $7,142,857$7,142,857 LW UFA - 4	Suzuki, Nick $7,875,000$7,875,000 C UFA - 8	Caufield, Cole $880,833$880,833 ($850,000$850K) LW, RW UFA - 1
Kempe, Adrian $8,200,000$8,200,000 LW, RW UFA - 4	Wright, Shane $925,000$925,000	Anderson, Josh $5,500,000$5,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 5
Pitlick, Rem $2,300,000$2,300,000 LW, RW UFA - 2	Evans, Jake $1,700,000$1,700,000 C UFA - 3	Gallagher, Brendan $6,500,000$6,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 5
Hoffman, Mike $4,500,000$4,500,000 LW UFA - 2	Poehling, Ryan $750,000$750,000 C, LW UFA - 1	Ylönen, Jesse $880,833$880,833 RW, LW RFA - 1
Byron, Paul $3,400,000$3,400,000 LW, RW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Romanov, Alexander $3,500,000$3,500,000 LD RFA - 3	Savard, David $3,500,000$3,500,000 RD UFA - 3	Price, Carey $10,500,000$10,500,000 G NMC UFA - 4
Edmundson, Joel $875,000$875,000 LD/RD M-NTC UFA - 2	Barron, Justin $925,000$925,000 ($212,500$212K) RD RFA - 2	Allen, Jake $2,875,000$2,875,000 G UFA - 1
Harris, Jordan $842,500$842,500 ($507,500$508K) LD/RD RFA - 1	Schueneman, Corey $1,000,000$1,000,000 LD/RD UFA - 1	Primeau, Cayden $1,000,000$1,000,000 G RFA - 3
Xhekaj, Arber $828,333$828,333 LD/RD RFA - 2

Apr. 26, 2022 at 9:58 p.m.

DarylMcNeckHead

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Brutal offer for Kyle Connor

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Apr. 26, 2022 at 10:05 p.m.

jonh514

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Quoting: DarylMcNeckHead

Brutal offer for Kyle Connor

Guhle is considered to be a future top 2 dman... so he's the real prize in this deal. What do you think would get it done if the Jets would consider it, keeping in mind Habs will trade just about anyone but Suzuki or Caufield.

Apr. 26, 2022 at 10:07 p.m.

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I mean the jets may move a guy but I doubt its conner and not for that offer. If you're willing to shell out 8.5 million on a winger chase Forsberg and keep those picks.

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Apr. 26, 2022 at 10:11 p.m.

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Quoting: Jfstompers

I mean the jets may move a guy but I doubt its conner and not for that offer. If you're willing to shell out 8.5 million on a winger chase Forsberg and keep those picks.

The whole fun of this exercise was to explore our GMs desire to be the fastest team in the league. Connor and Kempe are two of the fastest and that's the exercise here. Not to make the best "hockey business" decisions, but to gather the speediest players to Montreal. Sorry I was not more clear about that in the description.

Apr. 26, 2022 at 10:14 p.m.

Jfstompers

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Quoting: jonh514

Gotcha, well they're definitely burners

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Apr. 26, 2022 at 10:25 p.m.

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Petry's contract is hardly affordable, And Kyle Connor gets away better offer than that.

Apr. 26, 2022 at 10:26 p.m.

J_282512

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That is an insane amount of money for Kempe, absolutely unearned so far. I like him but he has one season over 40pts in no world is someone giving that much salary/term and a 2023 1st rounder for him.
Not enough for Connor, Guhle and the 1st is a good start but not enough.
MTL is not trading any 1st round picks , they're rebuilding they are going to hold onto any good picks.

Apr. 26, 2022 at 10:27 p.m.

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Jets Decline
Not even close

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Apr. 26, 2022 at 10:28 p.m.

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Quoting: jonh514

Suzuki

Apr. 26, 2022 at 10:29 p.m.

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Nix

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add Caufield and it’s closer

Apr. 26, 2022 at 10:29 p.m.

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Quoting: TampaBayLightning22

Petry's contract is hardly affordable, And Kyle Connor gets away better offer than that.

It's 3 X 1st round picks essentially. Dvorak was a 1st (and that's also what the habs paid to get him). Guhle was a fist and most GMs would drool at the prospect of getting him. The FLA pick is late but it's still a 1st. Kempe was selected 29th overall and 2023 is a good draft year.

Apr. 26, 2022 at 10:31 p.m.

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Quoting: J_282512

That's why the Kings won't match... he's the 2nd fastest skater in the league and scored 35 goals... he's gonna be pricey.

Apr. 27, 2022 at 12:46 a.m.

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WOW that RD really really really sucks

Apr. 27, 2022 at 6:16 a.m.

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Quoting: jonh514

That's why the Kings won't match... he's the 2nd fastest skater in the league and scored 35 goals... he's gonna be pricey.

Thats why no NHL team will offer that... nobody is giving Kempe 8.2M a year when he's had one good year, yes he's at 35G but he's also in a contract year and a lot players up their game in contract years. Also No bottom feeder team is going to offer sheet and lose their possibility at a top 5 next year.

Apr. 27, 2022 at 7:50 a.m.

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Edited Apr. 27, 2022 at 8:07 a.m.

By taking Little's contract at the TDL, Arizona shouldn't have much trouble making the floor. If they do want to add more, they can add Ferland's contract and get compensated for the dump.

If they were going to take Weber's contract then they won't take it for free -- they got Nathan Smith (currently their 2C, but probably projects as a 3C in the league) for Little's contract.

Apr. 27, 2022 at 11:56 a.m.

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Quoting: Mr_Canoehead

I think the difference is that for Weber they get 7.5M on the cap and it's gonna cost them 3M year 1, 1M year 2, 1M year 3. Not sure about Little/Ferland, but Weber's contract is an artifact of a time gone by. The ability to spend ~6M (averaged) under the cap for 3 years may have value for a team playing in front of 5000 fans. But if I'm wrong, I'm totally ok with that. I don't think the Habs need to move Weber either because 5 Million in dead cash over 3 years does not affect them much. I doubt they will pay to move that contract. Price on the other hand...

Apr. 27, 2022 at 5:50 p.m.

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First of all we absolutely aren’t trading Connor I have no idea how that got in your head, and even if we were that offer for Connor is insulting

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