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Created by: David_Desharnais_51

Team: 2024-25 Montreal Canadiens

Initial Creation Date: Aug. 1, 2022

Published: Aug. 1, 2022

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

I’ve increased the salary cap by $2.5 million to account for an average increase of $1.25 million over each of the next two years.

One can dream that the Quebec boomer Habs fans will shut up about the French thing with a second line like that.

This team is for fun, but there are rumblings that two of those second liners might be on their way to Montreal. Huberdeau likely gets more but it’s a hometown discount, same for Dubois, but I don’t know if 30 points is good enough for Beauvillier to get $6 million (Anderson gets $5.5 million so who knows).

While the top-9 looks great, the defence is horrid.

I don’t know if Jarry would leave the Pens for Montreal but that’s likely the number he’s going to receive if he improves on this past season. Finding a starting goalie through the draft/development should be a priority.

That being said, I put Price on LTIR because I think he knows he’s not going to be able to play the same or even a fraction of it again. He’ll ride out his contract and then likely join the organization as a coach or goaltending consultant.

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST	YEARS	CAP HIT
Mailloux, Logan	3	$894,167
Trudeau, William	2	$894,167
Simoneau, Xavier	1	$894,167
Tourigny, Miguël	2	$894,167
Rohrer, Vinzenz	3	$894,167
Beck, Owen	3	$894,167
Farrell, Sean	2	$894,167
Dobes, Jakub	1	$894,167
Tuch, Luke	2	$894,167
Hutson, Lane	3	$894,167

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Caufield, Cole	8	$7,500,000
Dubois, Pierre-Luc	8	$7,500,000
Dach, Kirby	3	$2,500,000
Ylönen, Jesse	1	$1,500,000
Barron, Justin	2	$2,500,000
Harris, Jordan	2	$2,500,000
Xhekaj, Arber	2	$1,000,000
Primeau, Cayden	2	$1,000,000
Harvey-Pinard, Rafaël	2	$775,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Huberdeau, Jonathan	5	$8,000,000
Beauvillier, Anthony	5	$6,000,000
Allen, Jake	2	$3,000,000
Jarry, Tristan	7	$6,500,000

CREATED		YEARS	CAP HIT
Fantilli, Adam		3	$950,000

Trades

MTL

Hughes has been reluctant to trade picks and prospects to move cap dumps. I suspect that this will change in the coming years. Anderson and Dvorak will likely be easier to move than Armia and Gallagher.

ARI

MTL

Dubois, Pierre-Luc [RFA Rights]

WPG

UFA at end of 23-24

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2023
2024
2025

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

EMBED

TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
21	$85,000,000	$71,779,167	$0	$4,035,000	$13,220,833

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Slafkovsky, Juraj $950,000$950,000 ($3,500,000$4M) RW, LW RFA - 1	Suzuki, Nick $7,875,000$7,875,000 C UFA - 6	Caufield, Cole $7,500,000$7,500,000 LW, RW UFA - 7
Huberdeau, Jonathan $8,000,000$8,000,000 LW, RW UFA - 7	Dubois, Pierre-Luc $7,500,000$7,500,000 C UFA - 7	Beauvillier, Anthony $6,000,000$6,000,000 RW, LW UFA
Fantilli, Adam $950,000$950,000	Dach, Kirby $2,500,000$2,500,000 C, RW RFA - 2	Roy, Joshua $835,000$835,000 ($57,500$58K) LW, RW RFA - 2
Ylönen, Jesse $1,500,000$1,500,000 RW, LW RFA	Kidney, Riley $836,667$836,667 ($57,500$58K) C RFA - 2	Evans, Jake $1,700,000$1,700,000 C UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Matheson, Michael $4,875,000$4,875,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 2	Savard, David $3,500,000$3,500,000 RD UFA - 1	Jarry, Tristan $6,500,000$6,500,000 G UFA - 4
Guhle, Kaiden $863,333$863,333 ($420,000$420K) LD/RD RFA - 1	Barron, Justin $2,500,000$2,500,000 RD RFA	Allen, Jake $3,000,000$3,000,000 G UFA - 1
Harris, Jordan $2,500,000$2,500,000 LD/RD RFA - 1	Mailloux, Logan $894,167$894,167 RD RFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Xhekaj, Arber $1,000,000$1,000,000 LD/RD RFA		Price, Carey $10,500,000$10,500,000 G NMC UFA - 2

Aug. 1, 2022 at 1:59 p.m.

Not_Isles5513

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This far out you can’t guarantee any of those guys would hit UFA status

Aug. 1, 2022 at 1:59 p.m.

David_Desharnais_51

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Tank Commander

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Quoting: Isles5513

This far out you can’t guarantee any of those guys would hit UFA status

That’s true. It was more for fun.

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Aug. 1, 2022 at 2:06 p.m.

Lenny7

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If you've got around $13 mil in cap space, what's the point of paying to dump players, or, alternatively, underpaying someone like Huberdeau?

Aug. 1, 2022 at 2:09 p.m.

dannibalcorpse

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Quoting: Lenny7

If you've got around $13 mil in cap space, what's the point of paying to dump players, or, alternatively, underpaying someone like Huberdeau?

Agreed on this take - even if you have Price's contract on the books, you can still afford Armia to be your 13th forward for one season (2024-25 would be his walk year). I'd also argue that Dvorak and Anderson have some value (especially Dvorak in this hypothetical - he'd be in his walk year as well). Gallagher? Good luck moving him. But he's the only guy of the 4 I'd say you *need* to attach an asset to in order to get him off your cap.

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Aug. 1, 2022 at 2:13 p.m.

Lenny7

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Quoting: dannibalcorpse

Yup. I also think the likelihood of replacing 40-50% of any roster with that many contracts of that size on it is quite low. Basically hitting on 4 of the top 10-15 or so UFA's over the next couple of years while also ending up with a top 3 pick seems like a bit of a stretch.

Aug. 1, 2022 at 2:14 p.m.

Birtle34

Bandwagon fairweathe

Joined: Jun. 2018

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Why would Montreal pay sticker price on Dubois? Such a dumb move on his part or agent, zeroing his sights on one franchise 2 years out, especially when his dad works in the jets organization.

Aug. 1, 2022 at 2:14 p.m.

TheRealisticGuy

Habs4Ever

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MTL wants to get big and fast, yet you are trading Anderson for Beauvillier and overpaid severely for him

Aug. 2, 2022 at 11:22 a.m.

David_Desharnais_51

Thread Starter

Tank Commander

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Quoting: dannibalcorpse

Agreed. My point was to ship out redundancies that were not improving the quality of depth. Anderson and Dvorak have perceived value. If Gallagher bounces back (and I’m not holding my breath) it might be slightly less impossible.

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