ZEGRAS TRADE AT 6TH OVERALL PICK OF THE DRAFT PLUS OFFSEASON KNIGHT TRADE

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Created by: nilees24

Team: 2024-25 Montreal Canadiens

Initial Creation Date: Mar. 12, 2024

Published: Mar. 12, 2024

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

**ANAHEIM EMERGES WITH 2 TOP-6 PICKS IN THE 2024 NHL DRAFT.
**THERE'S EVEN A CHANCE ANAHEIM EMERGES WITH 2 TOP-6 PICKS IN THE 2025 NHL DRAFT.

2024 Off-Season Free Agent Departures:
Tanner Pearson (UFA)
Mattias Norlinder (RFA)
Filip Cederqvist (RFA)
Arnaud Durandeau (RFA)
Colin White (UFA)
Mitchell Stephens (UFA)
Philippe Maillet (UFA)
Brady Keeper (UFA)
Chris Wideman (UFA)

2024 NHL draft results (1st 3 rounds):
27th overall pick (from WPG) acquire Emil Hemming (RW).
64th overall pick (from COL) acquire Raoul Boilard (C).
71st overall pick acquire Ondrej Kos (LW)
80th overall pick (from MIN) acquire Alexis Bernier (RD)

Trade candidates at 2025 Trade Deadline should Canadiens struggle during 2024/25 Season:
Christian Dvorak (UFA) - final year of contract (50% salary retention candidate)
Joel Armia (UFA) - final year of contract (50% salary retention candidate)
David Savard (UFA) - final year of contract (50% salary retention candidate)
Jake Evans (UFA) - final year of contract

2025 Off-Season Reserve List signings (x5):
Rhett Pitlick (LW)
Oliver Kapanen (C)
Florian Xhekaj (LW)
Adam Engström (LD)
Quentin Miller (G)

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST	YEARS	CAP HIT
Tuch, Luke	3	$883,333
Guindon, Cedrick	3	$855,000
Davidson, Jared	2	$825,000
Nurmi, Petteri	2	$825,000
Tourigny, Miguël	2	$825,000

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Xhekaj, Arber	5	$2,250,000
Barron, Justin	1	$850,000
Andersson, Lias	2	$775,000

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Simek, Radim		1	$775,000

CREATED		YEARS	CAP HIT
Hemming, Emil		3	$918,333
Boilard, Raoul		3	$885,000

Trades

MTL

Zegras, Trevor

ANA

Biondi, Blake [Reserve List]
Harris, Jordan
2024 1st round pick (MTL)
2025 1st round pick (MTL)

Additional Details:

*Off-Season trade on the 2024 Draft floor. 2024 1st round pick (from MTL) could be a top-6 pick (1.06 for this scenario).
*2025 1st round pick (from MTL) is unprotected (could be a top-6 pick in 2025 Draft).

MTL

Knight, Spencer

FLA

Sobolev, Daniil [Reserve List]
Ylönen, Jesse [RFA Rights]
2025 3rd round pick (MTL)

Additional Details:

*Off-Season trade shortly after 2024 NHL Draft.

*Panthers have a 3-year window to win the Cup and it's likely they'll ride Bobrovsky and Stolarz. Plus, they need the cap space ... their off-season should be busy. Knight marinades in Laval for 2024/25 season with Dobes.

Retained Salary Transactions

Jeff Petry: $2,343,750 (50%)
Jake Allen: $1,925,000 (50%)

Buried

Spencer Knight: $3,350,000 ($4,500,000)

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

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

EMBED

TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$87,500,000	$79,638,750	$1,022,500	$3,977,500	$7,861,250

Roster

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	Slafkovsky, Juraj $950,000$950,000 ($3,500,000$4M) RW, LW RFA - 1
Newhook, Alex $2,900,000$2,900,000 C, LW RFA - 3	Zegras, Trevor $5,750,000$5,750,000 C, LW RFA - 2	Dach, Kirby $3,362,500$3,362,500 C, RW RFA - 2
Roy, Joshua $835,000$835,000 LW, RW RFA - 2	Evans, Jake $1,700,000$1,700,000 C UFA - 1	Gallagher, Brendan $6,500,000$6,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 3
Armia, Joel $3,400,000$3,400,000 RW, LW UFA - 1	Dvorak, Christian $4,450,000$4,450,000 C M-NTC 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		Harvey-Pinard, Rafaël $1,100,000$1,100,000 LW, RW RFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Matheson, Michael $4,875,000$4,875,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 2	Guhle, Kaiden $863,333$863,333 ($420,000$420K) LD/RD RFA - 1	Montembeault, Samuel $3,150,000$3,150,000 G UFA - 3
Struble, Jayden $867,500$867,500 ($57,500$58K) LD RFA - 1	Savard, David $3,500,000$3,500,000 RD UFA - 1	Primeau, Cayden $890,000$890,000 G RFA - 1
Xhekaj, Arber $2,250,000$2,250,000 LD/RD RFA	Kovacevic, Johnathan $766,667$766,667 RD UFA - 1
	Barron, Justin $850,000$850,000 RD RFA

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
		Price, Carey $10,500,000$10,500,000 G NMC UFA - 2

Special Teams

Power Play 1
Caufield, C.		Suzuki, N.		Zegras, T.
	Anderson, J.		Matheson, M.

Power Play 2
Slafkovsky, J.		Dach, K.		Newhook, A.
	Guhle, K.		Struble, J.

Penalty Kill 1
	Dvorak, C.	Gallagher, B.
	Matheson, M.	Kovacevic, J.

Penalty Kill 2
	Evans, J.	Armia, J.
	Xhekaj, A.	Savard, D.

Mar. 12 at 4:54 p.m.

MTLaveragefan

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LOL - not giving TWO top 10 picks for Zegras... you realize that Z was a top ten pick as well? We might end-up with TWO zegras-equivalent players by not trading...

Keep the assets, sign Zegras when he becomes a UFA or when he eventually goes the PLD route and is trade for cheap at 50% retained.

We are 3-4 years out before competing (aka times it takes for guys like Slaf, Hutson, Reinbacher to mature and simultaneously with the downfall of Toronto and Boston). We have time to develop a winning team.

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Mar. 12 at 4:56 p.m.

Caufield

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Definitely a big no on the Zegras trade. One of the guys from this list is guaranteed to be at 6th OA:

Celebrini
Demidov
Catton
Lindstrom
Parekh
Levshunov

All of these guys are ELITE talent, with much higher potential than Zegras, and looking at the teams at the top of the draft, chances are almost guaranteed we get 1 of the 4 forwards.

For the Knight trade, its decent value, but since we have Fowler, and Monty will be better than Knight for at least 2 more years, we probably don't do it

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Mar. 12 at 5:04 p.m.

nilees24

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Quoting: MTLaveragefan

I'm willing to overpay for Zegras he's a fine fit as 2nd line centre and the PP will improve.

Mar. 12 at 5:06 p.m.

MTLaveragefan

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Quoting: nilees24

I'm willing to overpay for Zegras he's a fine fit as 2nd line centre and the PP will improve.

Dach is a fine 2nd line center.

I rather use the 2025 first round pick to secure one of Demidov, Lindstrom or Celebrini... not Zegras. He's all flashes and no substance.

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Mar. 12 at 5:07 p.m.

nilees24

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Quoting: MTLaveragefan

Dach is a fine 2nd line center.

I rather use the 2025 first round pick to secure one of Demidov, Lindstrom or Celebrini... not Zegras. He's all flashes and no substance.

Martin St. Louis coaching him up should be a homerun.

Mar. 12 at 5:46 p.m.

KingMurray

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I like Zegras but I'm not wild about overpaying for him. I'm also not wild about Montreal's chances of making the playoffs next year, so keep the picks and send Harris to someone in another deal.

Mar. 12 at 6:21 p.m.

JeffGorton

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Whoever the Habs get at 6th overall will be better than Zegras. So why tf are they adding another top 10 pick and Harris to it? If anything, the Ducks should be adding

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