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Created by: TheRealisticGuy

Team: 2023-24 Montreal Canadiens

Initial Creation Date: Jan. 11, 2023

Published: Jan. 12, 2023

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

Edmundson isn't traded at the 2023 TDL because Kent Hughes can't get a 2023 1st round pick for Eddy. With Guhle injury, Edmundson remains with the team and will be dealt at the 2024 TDL
Monahan is being dealt at the 2023 TDL. Drouin & Dadonov too if there is a buyer. If we can't use the 3 retention slots on Monahan, Drouin & Dadonov, we could retained as a 3rd team on rentals only

Draft day : MTL draft outside of the top 5, probably 6-7-8. I would expect them to draft Dalibor Dvorsky with their own 2023 1st round pick and draft Sandin Pellikka with FLO 1st round pick (around 15)

Laval Rocket :

Farrell-Richard-Roy
Heineman-Mesar-Simoneau
Gignac-Kidney-Belzile
Condotta-Mysak-Teasdale
Veteran

Beaudin-Barron
Struble-Dello
Fairbrother-Mailloux
Trudeau

Portillo
Dobes

Players on the taxi squad goes back in their respective league (Beck CHL the 3 others overseas)

I expect MTL to trade Joel Edmundson & Mike Hoffman at the 2024 TDL while retaining 50% of their salary

Line up after the 2024 TDL :

Caufield-Suzuki-Dach
Slafkovsky-Pageau-Anderson
Comtois-Dvorak-Gallagher
RHP/Ylönen-Evans-Armia

Guhle-Savard
Harris-Kovacevic
Xhekaj-Barron
Wideman

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST	YEARS	CAP HIT
Farrell, Sean	2	$950,000
Portillo, Erik	1	$950,000
Dobes, Jakub	2	$897,500
Struble, Jayden	2	$863,333
Simoneau, Xavier	2	$828,333

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Caufield, Cole	8	$7,875,000
Comtois, Maxime	1	$2,445,000
Harris, Jordan	2	$1,700,000
Ylönen, Jesse	2	$850,000
Harvey-Pinard, Rafaël	2	$850,000
Richard, Anthony	1	$775,000
Beaudin, Nicolas	1	$775,000

CREATED		YEARS	CAP HIT
Dvorsky, Dalibor		3	$950,000
Sandin Pellikka, Axel		3	$950,000

Trades

MTL

Comtois, Maxime [RFA Rights]

Additional Details:

Change of scenery for Comtois
Draft day trade

ANA

Pitlick, Rem
2023 4th round pick (VGK)

Additional Details:

Change of scenery for Pitlick
ANA gets a 2023 pick

MTL

Trineyev, Bogdan

Additional Details:

Only a B prospect because of Matheson cap hit a little high
Trade made during the 2023 Offseason

WSH

Matheson, Michael

Additional Details:

WSH are staying competitive and Matheson could replace Orlov (Matheson is younger with 3 years left on his deal)

MTL

Portillo, Erik [Reserve List]

Additional Details:

Good goalie prospect who isn't signing with BUF

BUF

Tuch, Luke [Reserve List]

Additional Details:

Alex brother, former 2nd round pick who plays a gritty game

MTL

Pageau, Jean-Gabriel
2024 1st round pick (NYI)

Additional Details:

JGP could waive for MTL
MTL didn't win the lottery so they draft outside the top 5 (means no center NHL ready). They could use JPG as a stop gap while taking a good asset (pick). Without a high pick, we wouldn't be interested

NYI

Montembeault, Samuel

Additional Details:

This trade will make room for Aatu Raty and free up 4M in cap space while receiving a cheap back up goaltender. The pick going to MTL would be top 10 protected

MTL

Uncondional waivers for purpose of contract termination

ARI

Norlinder, Mattias

Additional Details:

Norlinder didn't worked out, he goes back in Sweden

MTL

Boltmann, Jake [Reserve List]

CGY

Pezzetta, Michael [RFA Rights]

Buyouts

Karl Alzner: $833,333

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

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$83,500,000	$69,371,666	$1,170,000	$3,920,000	$14,128,334

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Caufield, Cole $7,875,000$7,875,000 LW, RW UFA - 8	Suzuki, Nick $7,875,000$7,875,000 C UFA - 7	Dach, Kirby $3,362,500$3,362,500 C, RW RFA - 3
Slafkovsky, Juraj $950,000$950,000 ($3,500,000$4M) RW, LW RFA - 2	Pageau, Jean-Gabriel $5,000,000$5,000,000 C M-NTC UFA - 3	Anderson, Josh $5,500,000$5,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 4
Hoffman, Mike $4,500,000$4,500,000 LW UFA - 1	Dvorak, Christian $4,450,000$4,450,000 C M-NTC UFA - 2	Gallagher, Brendan $6,500,000$6,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 4
Comtois, Maxime $2,445,000$2,445,000 LW RFA - 1	Evans, Jake $1,700,000$1,700,000 C UFA - 2	Armia, Joel $3,400,000$3,400,000 RW, LW UFA - 2

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Guhle, Kaiden $863,333$863,333 ($420,000$420K) LD/RD RFA - 2	Savard, David $3,500,000$3,500,000 RD UFA - 2	Allen, Jake $1,925,000$1,925,000 G M-NTC UFA - 2
Edmundson, Joel $875,000$875,000 LD/RD M-NTC UFA - 1	Harris, Jordan $1,700,000$1,700,000 LD/RD RFA - 2
Xhekaj, Arber $828,333$828,333 LD/RD RFA - 1	Kovacevic, Johnathan $766,667$766,667 RD UFA - 2	Primeau, Cayden $890,000$890,000 G RFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Harvey-Pinard, Rafaël $850,000$850,000 LW, RW RFA - 2		Price, Carey $10,500,000$10,500,000 G NMC UFA - 3
Ylönen, Jesse $850,000$850,000 RW, LW RFA - 1
Wideman, Chris $762,500$762,500 RD UFA - 1

Taxi Squad
Dvorsky, Dalibor $950,000$950,000 ($0$0$0$0)
Sandin Pellikka, Axel $950,000$950,000 ($0$0$0$0)
Beck, Owen $885,000$885,000 ($0$0$0$0) ($80,000$80K) C RFA - 3
Trineyev, Bogdan $859,167$859,167 ($0$0$0$0) ($57,500$58K) RW RFA - 2

Jan. 12, 2023 at 8:22 p.m.

#26

TheRealisticGuy

Thread Starter

Habs4Ever

Joined: May 2022

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Quoting: ClockReads2113

I think the Caps trade is fine but I think they will just end up re-signing Orlov which would leave no room for Matheson.

Quoting: qc14

Would think the caps would still prefer to bring Orlov back, but don't hate that move from their perspective at all if other things don't go their way

Orlov will be 32 yo tho

Jan. 12, 2023 at 10:13 p.m.

#27

ClockReads2113

Joined: Jul. 2016

Posts: 8,038

Likes: 3,236

Quoting: TheRealisticGuy

Orlov will be 32 yo tho

Yeah but he's really freakn good still. Plus he'll probably take a nice deal to stick with Ovi to end his career.

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Jan. 13, 2023 at 11:30 a.m.

#28

slapshot723

NYI

Joined: Jun. 2016

Posts: 3,514

Likes: 1,113

Quoting: Not_Isles5513

The islanders aren’t trading Beau for a guy who isn’t half the player Cal Clutterbuck was in his prime.

Armia's buyout is very little. I would do it to buy Armia, get a backup and a draft pick, and some cap space for an improvement.

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