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Created by: Habs4ever

Team: 2024-25 Montreal Canadiens

Initial Creation Date: Jan. 7, 2024

Published: Jan. 7, 2024

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

I’ve been watching the Habs since the 70’s, attended the Stanley cup parades, had season tickets in 80’s. I’ve never seen such good D-men in the organization.

We have 12 really good D-men, which 6-7 are we keeping and which are we using as trades. In 3 years here are my top 7.

Guhle-Barron
Hutson-Reinbacher
Xhekaj-Mailloux
Strubble

Of note I watch every Laval Rocket game as well and Xhekaj and Mailloux are playing together on top pair and they look really good together.

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST		YEARS	CAP HIT
Hutson, Lane		2	$925,000
Engström, Adam		3	$925,000

RFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Barron, Justin		3	$2,250,000
Xhekaj, Arber		3	$1,950,000

Trades

MTL

2026 7th round pick (MIN)

Additional Details:

To any team. My focus is on the defense.

MIN

Allen, Jake

Retained Salary Transactions

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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TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$83,500,000	$74,851,250	$1,022,500	$4,977,500	$8,648,750

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Caufield, Cole $7,850,000$7,850,000 LW, RW UFA - 7	Suzuki, Nick $7,875,000$7,875,000 C UFA - 6	Gallagher, Brendan $6,500,000$6,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 3
Heineman, Emil $897,500$897,500 LW, RW RFA - 1	Evans, Jake $1,700,000$1,700,000 C UFA - 1	Anderson, Josh $5,500,000$5,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 3
Pezzetta, Michael $812,500$812,500 LW, RW UFA - 1		Armia, Joel $3,400,000$3,400,000 RW, LW UFA - 1
		Slafkovsky, Juraj $950,000$950,000 ($3,500,000$4M) RW, LW RFA - 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
Guhle, Kaiden $863,333$863,333 ($420,000$420K) LD/RD RFA - 1	Barron, Justin $2,250,000$2,250,000 RD RFA	Montembeault, Samuel $3,150,000$3,150,000 G UFA - 3
Hutson, Lane $925,000$925,000 LD RFA - 2	Reinbacher, David $950,000$950,000 ($1,000,000$1M) RD RFA - 2	Primeau, Cayden $890,000$890,000 G RFA - 1
Xhekaj, Arber $1,950,000$1,950,000 LD/RD RFA	Mailloux, Logan $875,000$875,000 RD RFA - 2
Harris, Jordan $1,400,000$1,400,000 LD/RD RFA - 1	Kovacevic, Johnathan $766,667$766,667 RD UFA - 1
Struble, Jayden $867,500$867,500 ($57,500$58K) LD RFA - 1
Engström, Adam $925,000$925,000 LD RFA - 3

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
	Dvorak, Christian $4,450,000$4,450,000 C M-NTC UFA - 1	Price, Carey $10,500,000$10,500,000 G NMC UFA - 2
	Dach, Kirby $3,362,500$3,362,500 C, RW RFA - 2
	Newhook, Alex $2,900,000$2,900,000 C, LW RFA - 3
	Harvey-Pinard, Rafaël $1,100,000$1,100,000 LW, RW RFA - 1

Jan. 7 at 1:46 p.m.

Just_A_Guess

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I agree 100% with the 7 you chose and the lineup/pairings too. Hold onto those 7 and wheel & deal with the rest.

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Jan. 7 at 1:56 p.m.

NHLfan10506

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Hutson and Xhekaj should drop the mitts for roster spot.

Jan. 7 at 1:58 p.m.

NHLfan10506

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Also….don’t forget about Bogdan Konyushkov and Luke Mittelstadt.

Jan. 7 at 2:18 p.m.

Habs4ever

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Habs4ever

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Quoting: NHLfan10506

Hutson and Xhekaj should drop the mitts for roster spot.

Obviously this is a joke

Jan. 7 at 2:20 p.m.

Habs4ever

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Habs4ever

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Quoting: Just_A_Guess

I agree 100% with the 7 you chose and the lineup/pairings too. Hold onto those 7 and wheel & deal with the rest.

The only one that can move those 7 is Engstrom as I’m hearing good things about him. Then again we heard good things about Norlinder too and he plays as the 6 dman in Laval

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Jan. 7 at 2:30 p.m.

NHLfan10506

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Quoting: Habs4ever

Obviously this is a joke

Hutson was ready to go vs Anton Johansson at end of WJC

Jan. 7 at 4:10 p.m.

Habs4ever

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Habs4ever

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Quoting: NHLfan10506

Hutson was ready to go vs Anton Johansson at end of WJC

Knowing full well they’re not allowed to take their gloves off and Hutson never been in a real fight and Hutson is a very offensive player.

Jan. 7 at 4:23 p.m.

NHLfan10506

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Quoting: Habs4ever

Knowing full well they’re not allowed to take their gloves off and Hutson never been in a real fight and Hutson is a very offensive player.

Oh, I know…was 5’6” 130 lbs entering his draft year and went after that Johansson like a spider monkey.

Jan. 7 at 4:30 p.m.

Habs4ever

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Habs4ever

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Quoting: NHLfan10506

Oh, I know…was 5’6” 130 lbs entering his draft year and went after that Johansson like a spider monkey.

Great, now I’m trying to visualize a spider monkey fighting lol

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