Ideal lineup for 26-27

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Created by: Caufield

Team: 2025-26 Montreal Canadiens

Initial Creation Date: Apr. 7, 2024

Published: Apr. 7, 2024

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

The UFA doesn’t have to be Monahan, but someone in those vibes

Ideally, we have a veteran D (maybe we keep Matheson)

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST	YEARS	CAP HIT
Hutson, Lane	3	$950,000
Fowler, Jacob	3	$950,000
Xhekaj, Florian	3	$950,000
Konyushkov, Bogdan	3	$950,000
Kapanen, Oliver	3	$950,000
Engström, Adam	3	$950,000

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Slafkovsky, Juraj	8	$8,000,000
Struble, Jayden	2	$2,000,000
Xhekaj, Arber	2	$2,000,000
Guhle, Kaiden	8	$6,000,000
Harris, Jordan	3	$3,000,000
Barron, Justin	3	$3,000,000
Heineman, Emil	2	$2,000,000

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Monahan, Sean		3	$5,000,000

CREATED		YEARS	CAP HIT
Iginla, Tij		3	$950,000

Trades

MTL

BUF

Additional Details:

Likely gone (at the very least, 1 of Gally or Andy)

MTL

BUF

Additional Details:

Probably gets traded

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	$83,500,000	$61,250,833	$0	$1,500,000	$22,249,167

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Iginla, Tij $950,000$950,000	Suzuki, Nick $7,875,000$7,875,000 C UFA - 5	Slafkovsky, Juraj $8,000,000$8,000,000 RW, LW RFA
Caufield, Cole $7,850,000$7,850,000 LW, RW UFA - 6	Dach, Kirby $3,362,500$3,362,500 C, RW RFA - 1	Roy, Joshua $835,000$835,000 LW, RW RFA - 1
Newhook, Alex $2,900,000$2,900,000 C, LW RFA - 2	Monahan, Sean $5,000,000$5,000,000 C, LW, RW UFA	Heineman, Emil $2,000,000$2,000,000 LW, RW RFA
Xhekaj, Florian $950,000$950,000 LW, RW RFA - 2	Beck, Owen $885,000$885,000 C RFA - 1	Mesar, Filip $918,333$918,333 RW, C RFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Guhle, Kaiden $6,000,000$6,000,000 LD/RD RFA	Mailloux, Logan $875,000$875,000 RD RFA - 1	Montembeault, Samuel $3,150,000$3,150,000 G UFA - 2
Hutson, Lane $950,000$950,000 LD RFA - 1	Reinbacher, David $950,000$950,000 ($1,500,000$2M) RD RFA - 1	Fowler, Jacob $950,000$950,000 G RFA
Xhekaj, Arber $2,000,000$2,000,000 LD/RD RFA	Konyushkov, Bogdan $950,000$950,000 RD RFA

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Kapanen, Oliver $950,000$950,000 C RFA		Price, Carey $10,500,000$10,500,000 G NMC UFA - 1
Engström, Adam $950,000$950,000 LD RFA - 2
Struble, Jayden $2,000,000$2,000,000 LD RFA

Apr. 8 at 7:54 a.m.

Campabee

Joined: Nov. 2018

Posts: 15,628

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As much as I love to see all the young guys, I think Hughes is gonna go after a couple big FA or trade for a top 6 forward and top 4 RD this offseason. My guess is Montour, Hronek, PLD, Marchessault, Stamkos, Zegras or Lundell are his targets.

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