Rebuild Complete in 2025

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Created by: David_Desharnais_51

Team: 2025-26 Montreal Canadiens

Initial Creation Date: Jul. 5, 2023

Published: Jul. 6, 2023

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

If everyone hits on potential, this is what our roster will look like in 25-26. The roster building will have been complete, but the team is just taking form.

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST		YEARS	CAP HIT
Hutson, Lane		2	$950,000
Fowler, Jacob		3	$925,000

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Slafkovsky, Juraj	2	$4,500,000
Guhle, Kaiden	2	$3,500,000
Barron, Justin	2	$2,000,000
Newhook, Alex	4	$3,000,000
Farrell, Sean	2	$1,500,000
Harris, Jordan	2	$2,500,000
Harvey-Pinard, Rafaël	3	$2,500,000
Dobes, Jakub	3	$880,000
Xhekaj, Arber	2	$1,875,000
Simoneau, Xavier	2	$775,000
Zadina, Filip	1	$900,000

CREATED		YEARS	CAP HIT
Eiserman, Cole		3	$950,000

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
Zadina, Filip	$900,000	No Compensation

Trades

MTL

2026 2nd round pick (ARI)
2026 3rd round pick (ARI)
2026 5th round pick (ARI)

Additional Details:

To a team looking for a fast, rugged winger, who has been proven as a 15-20 goal scorer. (Placeholder team)

ARI

Anderson, Josh ($2,750,000 retained)

Additional Details:

2 years of retained salary (traded in 2025-26, expiry in 2026-27)

Retained Salary Transactions

Josh Anderson: $2,750,000 (50%)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2024
2025
2026

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
22	$86,000,000	$57,155,833	$0	$1,500,000	$28,844,167

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Slafkovsky, Juraj $4,500,000$4,500,000 RW, LW RFA	Suzuki, Nick $7,875,000$7,875,000 C UFA - 5	Caufield, Cole $7,850,000$7,850,000 LW, RW UFA - 6
Eiserman, Cole $950,000$950,000	Dach, Kirby $3,362,500$3,362,500 C, RW RFA - 1	Roy, Joshua $835,000$835,000 LW, RW RFA - 1
Farrell, Sean $1,500,000$1,500,000 RW, LW RFA	Newhook, Alex $3,000,000$3,000,000 C, LW RFA - 2	Mesar, Filip $918,333$918,333 RW, C RFA - 1
Harvey-Pinard, Rafaël $2,500,000$2,500,000 LW, RW RFA	Beck, Owen $885,000$885,000 C RFA - 1	Zadina, Filip $900,000$900,000 RW, LW RFA

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Matheson, Michael $4,875,000$4,875,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 1	Barron, Justin $2,000,000$2,000,000 RD RFA	Fowler, Jacob $925,000$925,000 G RFA
Hutson, Lane $950,000$950,000 LD RFA - 1	Reinbacher, David $950,000$950,000 ($1,500,000$2M) RD RFA - 1	Dobes, Jakub $880,000$880,000 G RFA
Guhle, Kaiden $3,500,000$3,500,000 LD/RD RFA	Mailloux, Logan $875,000$875,000 RD RFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Xhekaj, Arber $1,875,000$1,875,000 LD/RD RFA		Price, Carey $10,500,000$10,500,000 G NMC UFA - 1
Harris, Jordan $2,500,000$2,500,000 LD/RD RFA		Gallagher, Brendan $6,500,000$6,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 2

Jul. 6, 2023 at 12:09 p.m.

TheDuminator

HabsFan

Joined: Jul. 2017

Posts: 5,448

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youngest team in the league... and still second-tier team unfortunately
But high skill team like Anaheim

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Jul. 6, 2023 at 1:23 p.m.

p1015983

Habs_fan

Joined: Jul. 2020

Posts: 677

Likes: 159

By 2025-2026 Anderson will be destroyed by injuries and a shadow of himself. He won't have any value unfortunately. The time to trade him would be now

Jul. 6, 2023 at 3:06 p.m.

Glendon_York

Joined: May 2019

Posts: 102

Likes: 25

1. The key point here is "if everyone hits on potential". Not everyone will. This a decent start of a lineup but it will be far from what the roster will look like when the rebuild is over.
2. Not to be overly analytical of an Armchair GM team but your lineup would need more balance with players sitting in the proper chairs. As an example, if RHP end up on the Habs 4th line then he would be in the wrong chair because he is not a 4th line type. RHP needs to grow into a consistent 2nd line winger type, otherwise he would not be a proper fit in a rebuilt lineup.

Jul. 6, 2023 at 5:08 p.m.

jonh514

HuGo is a Boss GM

Joined: Dec. 2021

Posts: 6,961

Likes: 3,043

Don't listen to the "nay-sayers". While it's true not everyone will be NHL regulars, some of these players will also pop and be starts. All it takes is 1 player like Dach or Slafkovsky to take a huge leap forward and change the entire makeup of this team.

You only need 3 Elite players to win in the playoffs normally. It could be any of: Hutson, Guhle, Reinbacher, Slafkovsky, Dach, Caufield, Mailloux. Any 3 in that list and we're in business.

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