We might also get the 22 in the draft

Forums/Armchair-GM

First2

Page 2 of 2

Created by: batman

Team: 2024-25 Montreal Canadiens

Initial Creation Date: Mar. 31, 2024

Published: Mar. 31, 2024

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

#5 : Ivan Demidov
# 22 : Trevor Connelly

Hughes says Playoffs is the goal for next szn. The rebuild is almost done.

Johnson comp = Dach 4x3.35

Ltir = Players traded

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST		YEARS	CAP HIT
Hutson, Lane		3	$950,000

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Xhekaj, Arber	2	$1,400,000
Barron, Justin	2	$1,000,000
Johnson, Kent	4	$3,350,000

CREATED		YEARS	CAP HIT
Connelly, Trevor		3	$950,000
Demidov, Ivan		3	$950,000

Trades

MTL

Johnson, Kent [RFA Rights]

Additional Details:

Change of scenery?

CBJ

Mailloux, Logan
2025 1st round pick (CGY)

Additional Details:

2 firsts in value. And CGY could be VERY bad next year. Top7 protected. Mailloux has been killing it in Laval.

MTL

2024 2nd round pick (WSH)
2026 2nd round pick (NYR)

Additional Details:

We just have too many d

ARI

Barron, Justin

Additional Details:

Draft Day. #46 + 2026 2ND.

Retained Salary Transactions

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

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	$73,284,583	$1,022,500	$4,977,500	$14,215,417

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Johnson, Kent $3,350,000$3,350,000 LW, C RFA	Dach, Kirby $3,362,500$3,362,500 C, RW RFA - 2	Slafkovsky, Juraj $950,000$950,000 ($3,500,000$4M) RW, LW RFA - 1
Caufield, Cole $7,850,000$7,850,000 LW, RW UFA - 7	Suzuki, Nick $7,875,000$7,875,000 C UFA - 6	Demidov, Ivan $950,000$950,000
Newhook, Alex $2,900,000$2,900,000 C, LW RFA - 3	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
Roy, Joshua $835,000$835,000 LW, RW RFA - 2	Evans, Jake $1,700,000$1,700,000 C UFA - 1	Armia, Joel $3,400,000$3,400,000 RW, LW UFA - 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
Hutson, Lane $950,000$950,000 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 $1,400,000$1,400,000 LD/RD RFA	Savard, David $3,500,000$3,500,000 RD UFA - 1	Dobes, Jakub $925,000$925,000 G RFA - 1
Struble, Jayden $867,500$867,500 ($57,500$58K) LD RFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Gallagher, Brendan $6,500,000$6,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 3		Harris, Jordan $1,400,000$1,400,000 LD/RD RFA - 1
		Kovacevic, Johnathan $766,667$766,667 RD UFA - 1
		Price, Carey $10,500,000$10,500,000 G NMC UFA - 2

Taxi Squad
Connelly, Trevor $950,000$950,000 ($0$0$0$0)

Mar. 31 at 9:17 p.m.

#26

dgibb10

I Love J Boqvist

Joined: Jan. 2023

Posts: 12,258

Likes: 3,262

Quoting: jpsnow13

6 wins back of a playoffs spot can be easily reached by adding Dach, Reinbacher, Roy, Primeau and whatever RFA the GM can get by trading away WPG and/or CGY 1st. They have all the tools to upgrade the roster quickly.

Also,

The habs are currently bottom 5 in wins, regulation wins, and goal differential despite getting excellent goaltending from low pedigree goalies.

Only Chicago, Anaheim, and SJS have a worse expected goal differential.

Mar. 31 at 9:21 p.m.

#27

WCHF

Zamboni driver

Joined: Sep. 2020

Posts: 125

Likes: 20

Quoting: MitchJr

Show me a GM who doesn’t say playoffs are the goal in off season, or weirdly in this case - even before previous season ends. But finishing 8th of 8 in division & 15th of 16 in conference is a tough hill to climb next year.

Thanks Captain Obvious....lol

Mar. 31 at 9:24 p.m.

#28

WCHF

Zamboni driver

Joined: Sep. 2020

Posts: 125

Likes: 20

Quoting: palhal

Kinda disagree that the Habs have "too many Dmen". They don't have enough NHL Dmen.

yeah one of the highest scoring D core in the league sort of puts a wrench in your opinion eh.....thanks for trying though

Mar. 31 at 9:31 p.m.

#29

WCHF

Zamboni driver

Joined: Sep. 2020

Posts: 125

Likes: 20

Don't get the love for Johnson 16 points in 42 games is nothing special

Mar. 31 at 9:36 p.m.

#30

Andy_Dick

Banned

Joined: Feb. 2022

Posts: 5,094

Likes: 2,375

Quoting: WCHF

yeah one of the highest scoring D core in the league sort of puts a wrench in your opinion eh.....thanks for trying though

Especially If you take out every defensive player over 23 years of age, they are left with..

Guhle-Reinbacher
Hutson-Mailloux
Xhekaj-Harris
Struble
Barron
Engstrom
Bogdan Konyushkov
Tourigny

Don't see many orgs with close to that type of top pair potential.

batman liked this.

Mar. 31 at 10:21 p.m.

#31

palhal

LongtimeLeafsufferer

Joined: Jul. 2015

Posts: 60,027

Likes: 22,964

Quoting: WCHF

yeah one of the highest scoring D core in the league sort of puts a wrench in your opinion eh.....thanks for trying though

Quoting: WCHF

yeah one of the highest scoring D core in the league sort of puts a wrench in your opinion eh.....thanks for trying though

Didn't know that highest scoring D core was a deciding factor in defining "good", I was suggest that being 27th points in a 32 team league is a bigger factor.
.

Mar. 31 at 10:27 p.m.

#32

Viqsi

mostly harmless

Joined: Feb. 2016

Posts: 6,854

Likes: 3,347

I'm glad that it sounds like Mailloux seems to have learned from his egregious mistakes and is on his way to doing better with his life. That said, I have no interest in betting our team on it.

BoomerTheHero liked this.

Apr. 1 at 2:18 p.m.

#33

Billy316

Jesus Christ Is King

Joined: Mar. 2017

Posts: 2,611

Likes: 746

Quoting: CaseyFlyman

New GM direction doesn't mean moving your top forward prospect "just because".

"No one else is shopping players that young except maybe ANA with Zegras ?" - That's not a MAJOR red flag? There's a reason no one shops players that young of that caliber.

Look, he's the top forward prospect on a team with a ton of lesser prospects but lacking star players, and he's still half a year out from being able to play hockey again. He's not getting traded, and he's not available. I don't know why we keep having "KJ to MTL" discussions, the two teams need the same things and are on the same timeline; they're not good trading partners. Would Montreal move Slaf right now?

Zegras has been linked to trade rumors in the past sure, basically all because he's friends with Caufield and Jack Hughes.
This time it came from the Media not the fans after a rough Contract Negotiation where ANA gave him his Suzuki like Contract moment to sign on and lead the youth for the next 8 years and he didnt want it on their terms. Thats his right 100% and personally i dont blame him i woulda do what he did too but the reality is ANA expected something more and then the "were not shopping him but people are calling and we are listening " PR that every GM says when they shop players.

There was rumors that there was a right in CBJ similr to PHI before Gauthier got traded.
Which lets say there was, it would be fixed with a new GM if they made changes when Johnson was negatively impacted among others.
So Logically some changes are going to 100% be made, but will it be Johnson ,Fantilli or Laine ? i doubt it

CaseyFlyman liked this.

Apr. 4 at 4:23 p.m.

#34

WCHF

Zamboni driver

Joined: Sep. 2020

Posts: 125

Likes: 20

Quoting: palhal

Didn't know that highest scoring D core was a deciding factor in defining "good", I was suggest that being 27th points in a 32 team league is a bigger factor.
.

that is funny coming from a leaf fan..... 3-1 ring a bell Champ...enjoy your four extra games though

Apr. 4 at 9:14 p.m.

#35

palhal

LongtimeLeafsufferer

Joined: Jul. 2015

Posts: 60,027

Likes: 22,964

Quoting: WCHF

that is funny coming from a leaf fan..... 3-1 ring a bell Champ...enjoy your four extra games though

Enjoy meaningless games starting in the in new year.

Apr. 12 at 7:57 p.m.

#36

WCHF

Zamboni driver

Joined: Sep. 2020

Posts: 125

Likes: 20

Quoting: palhal

Enjoy meaningless games starting in the in new year.

In the new year?....it's April....the new year was months ago...you are a little late to the party

First2

Page 2 of 2

DISPLAY SETTING

BETTING ODDS

LOCALE

ARCHIVE

CBA

CALCULATORS

FANTASY HOCKEY TOOLS

TOOLS

PLAYERS

WESTERN CONFERENCE

EASTERN CONFERENCE

INTERACTIVE FEATURES

Forums/Armchair-GM