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Created by: rb1481

Team: 2023-24 Montreal Canadiens

Initial Creation Date: May 17, 2023

Published: May 17, 2023

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

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Here is the logical from Chicago's perspective. They have no one to play with Conor and they wont for a few years. And at that point he will be making $15 million+ per year. If they trade down and take Michkov (assuming he is there), by the time he comes over in 3 years, they will have made 10 additional first round picks (likely 5 in the top 10) and can surround him with a young core to build into a cup contender for a decade. Yes, giving up on a generational talent isn't super wise, but Michkov would have been a #1 in any other draft and can be a superstar as well. The timeline fits for Chicago.

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Caufield, Cole	8	$8,350,000
Pezzetta, Michael	2	$950,000
Harvey-Pinard, Rafaël	4	$1,100,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Monahan, Sean	2	$3,000,000
Barbashev, Ivan	5	$4,250,000
Bertuzzi, Tyler	6	$5,500,000
Graves, Ryan	4	$4,500,000

CREATED		YEARS	CAP HIT
Bedard, Conor		1	$975,000

Trades

MTL

2023 1st round pick (CHI)

CHI

Kidney, Riley
Mailloux, Logan
Roy, Joshua
Struble, Jayden
2023 1st round pick (FLA)
2023 1st round pick (MTL)
2024 1st round pick (MTL)
2025 1st round pick (MTL)

Buried

Mike Hoffman: $3,350,000 ($4,500,000)

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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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$83,500,000	$76,303,332	$1,170,000	$3,920,000	$7,196,668

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Caufield, Cole $8,350,000$8,350,000 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
Barbashev, Ivan $4,250,000$4,250,000 LW, RW UFA - 5	Bedard, Conor $975,000$975,000	Gallagher, Brendan $6,500,000$6,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 4
Slafkovsky, Juraj $950,000$950,000 ($3,500,000$4M) RW, LW RFA - 2	Monahan, Sean $3,000,000$3,000,000 C, LW, RW UFA - 1	Bertuzzi, Tyler $5,500,000$5,500,000 LW, RW UFA - 1
Harvey-Pinard, Rafaël $1,100,000$1,100,000 LW, RW RFA - 2	Evans, Jake $1,700,000$1,700,000 C UFA - 2	Anderson, Josh $5,500,000$5,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 4
		Pezzetta, Michael $950,000$950,000 LW, RW UFA - 2

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Matheson, Michael $4,875,000$4,875,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 3	Guhle, Kaiden $863,333$863,333 ($420,000$420K) LD/RD RFA - 2	Montembeault, Samuel $1,000,000$1,000,000 G UFA - 1
Graves, Ryan $4,500,000$4,500,000 LD UFA - 6	Harris, Jordan $1,400,000$1,400,000 LD/RD RFA - 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	Savard, David $3,500,000$3,500,000 RD UFA - 2
Xhekaj, Arber $828,333$828,333 LD/RD RFA - 1	Zboril, Jakub $1,137,500$1,137,500 LD/RD UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
		Price, Carey $10,500,000$10,500,000 G NMC UFA - 3

May 17, 2023 at 11:17 a.m.

TheRealisticGuy

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The description laugh

May 17, 2023 at 11:29 a.m.

jance

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Quote:

They have no one to play with Conor and they wont for a few years.

Lukas Reichel is ready to jump to the NHL, Nazar will likely come over at the end of the season next year, Kevin Korchinski will be ready to make it to the NHL soon as well. Philipp Kurashev is already with the hawks and is showing to be a useful player. Are they ready to contend for the playoffs now? No, but they're only a few years away. Trading away a potentially generational talent because they are going to have to pay him in a few years seems like a poor reason to make a trade. You build around players like Bedard.

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May 17, 2023 at 11:29 a.m.

tmlfan93

Doc

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MTL would need to include one of Slafkovsky, Coulfield, Suzuki, if not two plus everything else you had. When Lindros held out, Quebec got Steve Duchesne, Peter Forsberg, Ron Hextall, Kerry Huffman, Mike Ricci, Chris Simon, Phil's 1st in 93 (Jocelyn Thibault) + 94 (traded to NYI they used it on Brett Lindros) and 15m in cash.

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May 17, 2023 at 11:38 a.m.

Campabee

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I am sorry but how wouldn't Chicago have talent to surround Bedard? They have 4 other picks in the 2024 and 2025 drafts plus the 19th pick this year as well. And the Hawks next 2 picks are likely to be lottery picks as well, giving them 3 top 10 picks and 3 additional picks in the next 3 drafts. That literally gives them talent to surround Bedard

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May 17, 2023 at 12:10 p.m.

ChiHawk

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Quoting: Campabee

Plus Reichel, a top 30 prospect as rated by Wheeler and Pronman, plus Korchinski arguably a top 2 defensive prospect both playing this coming season full-time, not to mention Nazar a at the end of the season.

May 17, 2023 at 12:52 p.m.

rb1481

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Quoting: Campabee

None of these draft picks will be in the NHL for 2-3 years at minimum. By that point Bedard will be out of his entry-level deal. Even if Reichel and KK and Nazar are impactful this coming year or next year, they tore if down to the studs, so there is no one else to help. It wastes the first 3 years of his career. They might as well punt it the next 3 years, take Michkov, and then build a powerhouse from 2026-2036

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