ZEGRAS TRADE AT 7TH OVERALL PICK

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Created by: nilees24

Team: 2024-25 Montreal Canadiens

Initial Creation Date: Apr. 4, 2024

Published: Apr. 4, 2024

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

*ANAHEIM EMERGES WITH 2 TOP-7 PICKS IN THE 2024 NHL DRAFT.
**MARTIN ST. LOUIS CAN FIX ZEGRAS. I'M WILLING TO OVERPAY TO HAVE THE 2ND LINE OF NEWHOOK - ZEGRAS - DACH TO START 2024/25 SEASON.

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

2024 NHL draft results (1st 3 rounds):
25th overall pick (from WPG) acquire Emil Hemming (RW).
64th overall pick (from COL) acquire Raoul Boilard (C).
71st overall pick acquire Ondrej Kos (LW)
79th overall pick (from MIN) acquire Alexis Bernier (RD)

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST	YEARS	CAP HIT
Fowler, Jacob	3	$918,333
Tuch, Luke	2	$895,000
Guindon, Cedrick	3	$883,333
Davidson, Jared	2	$825,000
Biondi, Blake	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

Harris, Jordan
2024 1st round pick (MTL)
2025 2nd round pick (MTL)

Additional Details:

*Off-Season trade on the 2024 Draft floor. 2024 1st round pick (from MTL) could be a top-7 pick (1.07 for this scenario).

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	$76,288,750	$1,022,500	$3,977,500	$11,211,250

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

Apr. 4 at 6:56 p.m.

#26

Habs_22_14_20

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Quoting: Caufield

Probably the worse highlights I’ve seen 💀

Apr. 4 at 7:00 p.m.

#27

Caufield

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Quoting: Habs_22_14_20

Probably the worse highlights I’ve seen 💀

like i've said, has solid dekes, and has good hands in front of the net.

He's not scoring a michigan, but that's not really something important either

Apr. 4 at 7:04 p.m.

#28

SevenLeg

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Quoting: OldNYIfan

Just out of curiosity, what's the guarantee that the #7 pick won't turn out to be the next Lias Andersson?

That's why the accompanying player in a Zegras trade would have to be a more useful asset than a redundant bottom-4 LhD.

Cole Caufield better hurry up -- he has 3 games to record 6 points to equal Zegras' record through 200 games, and that's with Zegras playing 15 games (one for three whole shifts) this season injured.

Hi old friend, hope everything is doing good for you.

What’s the guarantee the #7th overall pick isn’t the next Keller, Q. Hughes or Cozens 🧐

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Apr. 4 at 7:07 p.m.

#29

GuyGuyGuy

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Celebrini, Demidov, Lindstrom, Catton, Helenius, Eiserman, Igilna. Enough said. Zegras will be worse than every player there

Apr. 4 at 7:10 p.m.

#30

OldNYIfan

Once a Kings Fan Too

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Quoting: SevenLeg

Hi old friend, hope everything is doing good for you.

What’s the guarantee the #7th overall pick isn’t the next Keller, Q. Hughes or Cozens 🧐

No guarantee at all and, in fact, in my opinion the odds are significantly greater that the pick will be a boom rather than a bust. But I was directing my comment to those fans in this thread who seem to think that whoever the Habs pick, he is guaranteed to be better than Zegras and should be a Hall of Famer.

Apr. 4 at 7:12 p.m.

#31

OldNYIfan

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Quoting: GuyGuyGuy

Celebrini, Demidov, Lindstrom, Catton, Helenius, Eiserman, Igilna. Enough said. Zegras will be worse than every player there

Now you're just embarrassing yourself. If you're that good at seeing into the future, you should be a billionaire by now.

Apr. 4 at 7:13 p.m.

#32

SevenLeg

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Quoting: OldNYIfan

I understand both POV, and I think the feasability depends on how available Zegras truly is this summer.

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Apr. 4 at 7:19 p.m.

#33

OldNYIfan

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Quoting: SevenLeg

I understand both POV, and I think the feasability depends on how available Zegras truly is this summer.

The only realistic scenario in which I see Zegras becoming available is if Anaheim lands either Celebrini or Levshunov in the draft. Even then, the player coming with an early first-rounder would have to be a RW with a very high upside.

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Apr. 4 at 7:45 p.m.

#34

GuyGuyGuy

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Quoting: OldNYIfan

Now you're just embarrassing yourself. If you're that good at seeing into the future, you should be a billionaire by now.

The odds are very good for all of them. I’ll take a great chance at a 90 pts maybe 2 way player over a 70 pts awful defensively player

Apr. 4 at 8:22 p.m.

#35

OldNYIfan

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Quoting: GuyGuyGuy

Celebrini, Demidov, Lindstrom, Catton, Helenius, Eiserman, Igilna. Enough said. Zegras will be worse than every player there

Quoting: GuyGuyGuy

The odds are very good for all of them. I’ll take a great chance at a 90 pts maybe 2 way player over a 70 pts awful defensively player

Sorry, other than Celebrini, I don't see ANY of them, let alone all of them, being better than Sebastian Aho. But you're entitled to hope, and that's what makes horse races.

Apr. 4 at 9:25 p.m.

#36

GuyGuyGuy

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Quoting: OldNYIfan

Sorry, other than Celebrini, I don't see ANY of them, let alone all of them, being better than Sebastian Aho. But you're entitled to hope, and that's what makes horse races.

Celebrini, Demidov, Catton and Eiserman all have very good chances of being 90 pts players. Lindstrom and Igilna will more than likely hit 80 while being good defensively. Helenius could easily get 75 pts and 35 goals. All of this is better than a guy who got benched multiple times this season and is beyond awful defensively.

As I have said multiple times before, Zegras’ value is aroound 10 OA, and nobody should be paying that

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