Byfield trade

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Created by: JeffGorton

Team: 2023-24 Montreal Canadiens

Initial Creation Date: Aug. 19, 2023

Published: Aug. 19, 2023

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Trades

MTL

Byfield, Quinton

Additional Details:

Kings get their starter, depth dman, former 1st rounder and a potentially top 20 pick (Flames are butt cheeks). Byfield needs to be moved after the Dubois trade, huge logjam down the middle even before another top 6 C was acquired.

LAK

Additional Details:

lowest of 1st rounders in 2025

Willing to throw in like a 2025/2026 2nd or Mysak type prospect and a 3rd if value isnt there yet

Buyouts

Karl Alzner: $833,333

Retained Salary Transactions

Joel Edmundson: $1,750,000 (50%)
Jeff Petry: $2,343,750 (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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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
21	$83,500,000	$73,797,083	$1,170,000	$6,860,000	$9,702,917

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Newhook, Alex $2,900,000$2,900,000 C, LW RFA - 4	Suzuki, Nick $7,875,000$7,875,000 C UFA - 7	Gallagher, Brendan $6,500,000$6,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 4
Harvey-Pinard, Rafaël $1,100,000$1,100,000 LW, RW RFA - 2	Dvorak, Christian $4,450,000$4,450,000 C M-NTC UFA - 2	Anderson, Josh $5,500,000$5,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 4
Pezzetta, Michael $812,500$812,500 LW, RW UFA - 2	Dach, Kirby $3,362,500$3,362,500 C, RW RFA - 3	Armia, Joel $3,400,000$3,400,000 RW, LW UFA - 2
	Evans, Jake $1,700,000$1,700,000 C UFA - 2	Ylönen, Jesse $775,000$775,000 RW, LW RFA - 1
	Byfield, Quinton $894,167$894,167 ($2,650,000$3M) LW, C RFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Matheson, Michael $4,875,000$4,875,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 3	Savard, David $3,500,000$3,500,000 RD UFA - 2	Allen, Jake $1,925,000$1,925,000 G M-NTC UFA - 2
Harris, Jordan $1,400,000$1,400,000 LD/RD RFA - 2		DeSmith, Casey $1,800,000$1,800,000 G UFA - 1
Guhle, Kaiden $863,333$863,333 ($420,000$420K) LD/RD RFA - 2	Barron, Justin $925,000$925,000 ($275,000$275K) RD RFA - 1
	Kovacevic, Johnathan $766,667$766,667 RD UFA - 2
	Wideman, Chris $762,500$762,500 RD UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
	Caufield, Cole $7,850,000$7,850,000 LW, RW UFA - 8	Price, Carey $10,500,000$10,500,000 G NMC UFA - 3
	Monahan, Sean $1,985,000$1,985,000 ($15,000$15K) C, LW, RW UFA - 1
	Slafkovsky, Juraj $950,000$950,000 ($3,500,000$4M) RW, LW RFA - 2
	Xhekaj, Arber $828,333$828,333 LD/RD RFA - 1

Aug. 19, 2023 at 2:15 a.m.

BigBadBurke

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Edited Aug. 20, 2023 at 2:58 p.m.

Berge is only agreeing to this if you add his boy savard... oh and gally too while youre at it! why not

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Aug. 19, 2023 at 2:27 a.m.

McSorley

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Kings have no reason to trade Byfield.

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Aug. 19, 2023 at 2:27 a.m.

McSorley

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Starter?🤣

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Aug. 19, 2023 at 2:42 a.m.

JeffGorton

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Jeff Gorton

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Quoting: McSorley

Kings have no reason to trade Byfield.

Quoting: McSorley

Kings have every reason to trade him.

Quoting: McSorley

Starter?🤣

1. You want value back before you ruin him on the 3rd line. he is currently the highest his value will be as a member of the Kings. Hes 4th on the depth charts and none of the 4 play as a winger.
2. If he does have a good year, no money to resign him
3. Kings have a goaltending duo of Copley and Talbot.
Copley had a 4.7 GSAx
Talbot had a -0.7 GSAx
Monty had a 11.8 GSAx

Nearly 3 times has much as the both of them combined on a much worse team. Oh and hes cheap.

Aug. 19, 2023 at 3:01 a.m.

tkecanuck341

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No. Even if it was the highest of your 1st round picks.

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Aug. 19, 2023 at 3:04 a.m.

tkecanuck341

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Quoting: JeffGorton

Byfield is playing 1LW and eventually 1C. Anyone speculating that he will play on the 3rd line doesn't know what they're talking about.

Copley broke a Kings franchise record to the fastest 20 wins in franchise history. He finished 24-6-3. What was Monty's record last year?

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Aug. 19, 2023 at 3:19 a.m.

irgids

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reminder that QB is 21. There is 0 reason to think anyone should give up on him.

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Aug. 19, 2023 at 3:35 a.m.

AnonymousSensFan

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Quoting: JeffGorton

LOL, Habs fan commenting on another team's top prospect development issues.

Will MTL give Byfield the Slaf strategy? You know, force him into the NHL before he's ready, make him play depth minutes, barely any PP time, wreck his confidence, and get him injured half way into the season?

No one develops top prospects quite like MTL

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Aug. 19, 2023 at 8:10 a.m.

palhal

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Not saying it's not a bad trade, but geez, really no logic to think Kings have a logjam wiht Byfield. Quality centres can always find a ice time either at cenrte or wing.

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Aug. 19, 2023 at 9:56 a.m.

#10

GMBL

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Quoting: JeffGorton

If Byfield did have a break out year, he would have more value then he has now, so no need to be scared off that. They also would just need to find a way to sign him for the year (he will have no arb rights so might be pretty easy), two, or three, and they would have plenty of money to sign him.

I'm curious though where do you think he would slot in for MTL? He's going to have to be competing with a lot of other young guys for a top 6 position. Down the middle, there's Newhook and Dach, in addition to Monahan. Two of the three Cs + Slafkovsky will then be competing for the 3 remaining wings along with Pinard even if they relegate Anderson and Gallagher to the bottom 6.

Aug. 19, 2023 at 10:19 a.m.

#11

Gofnut999

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Keep dreaming lol.

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Aug. 19, 2023 at 12:07 p.m.

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drambui

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Quoting: tkecanuck341

you think copley would have had the same records with the habs... come one.

Aug. 19, 2023 at 12:09 p.m.

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drambui

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no reason for the king to give up on byfield. this year he well get his real shot.

Aug. 19, 2023 at 2:15 p.m.

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tkecanuck341

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Quoting: drambui

you think copley would have had the same records with the habs... come one.

No, but my point was that Copley clearly got the job done. So why give up the Kings best young player to replace him?

Aug. 19, 2023 at 2:53 p.m.

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drambui

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Quoting: tkecanuck341

No, but my point was that Copley clearly got the job done. So why give up the Kings best young player to replace him?

well this is a bad trade for sure. but i feel the kings will want to get an upgrade, there is a reason they trade for korpi last deadline. i expect them to make a move at some point during the season.

Aug. 19, 2023 at 3:03 p.m.

#16

tkecanuck341

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Quoting: drambui

They're going to give every opportunity to the three NHL goaltenders they have. If none of them step up to take over the starting job, then I'm sure they'll look to bring in a rental at the deadline.

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Aug. 19, 2023 at 11:49 p.m.

#17

McSorley

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Quoting: JeffGorton

Byfield has been on the top line and that's where he's expected to start the season.

If you think the Kings are trading Byfield for your so called "starter" you are out of your mind.

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