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Created by: Andy_Dick

Team: 2024-25 Montreal Canadiens

Initial Creation Date: Apr. 25, 2024

Published: Apr. 25, 2024

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Free Agent Signings

RFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Xhekaj, Arber		2	$1,500,000

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Lankinen, Kevin		2	$2,750,000

Trades

MTL

2024 1st round pick (BUF)

Additional Details:

Mailloux, Savard, Kovacevic, room for Reinbacher maybe Guhle. There is no spots left on the right for Barron and he cant be sent down w/o waivers. Rubber meets the road

BUF

Barron, Justin [RFA Rights]
2024 1st round pick (WPG)

Additional Details:

Buffalo cant attract free agents and they have too many LHD. Bandaids on the right in Erik Johnson and Connor Clifton were a disaster that ended up in a weirdly timed trade for Byram @TDL and giving away their most productive center. Thompson will be 'healthy' and they have to stop this endless collection of assets and actually pay a price to improve.

MTL

Rossi, Marco

Additional Details:

Another deal in the vein of Newhook. Not sure he's what MTL needs but it's a Hughes move to buy low here as Russo confirmed that Rossi is being shopped.

MIN

Additional Details:

Evans is a lesser Ross Colton that can play on your pk with great speed and playoffs pedigree. Mesar just had a brilliant OHL playoffs campaign where he is 2nd in scoring and the Wild need offence.

MTL

Konecny, Travis

Additional Details:

My personal favourite. I'd overpay here in a second

PHI

Farrell, Sean
2025 1st round pick (CGY)
2025 2nd round pick (PIT)

MTL

Gourde, Yanni

Additional Details:

Habs get their stability at 3rd line center with the local kid

SEA

Dvorak, Christian
2025 3rd round pick (VAN)

Additional Details:

Kraken get 4 years younger with cap savings at same term

MTL

Bourgault, Xavier

EDM

Kovacevic, Johnathan
2025 3rd round pick (NJD)

MTL

Kovalenko, Nikolai

COL

Struble, Jayden

MTL

2024 2nd round pick (MTL)

WPG

Armia, Joel ($1,700,000 retained)
Primeau, Cayden
2024 2nd round pick (COL)

Retained Salary Transactions

Jeff Petry: $2,343,750 (50%)
Jake Allen: $1,925,000 (50%)
Joel Armia: $1,700,000 (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	$87,500,000	$76,888,332	$1,022,500	$6,597,500	$10,611,668

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
Konecny, Travis $5,500,000$5,500,000 RW, LW UFA - 1	Rossi, Marco $863,333$863,333 ($850,000$850K) C RFA - 1	Dach, Kirby $3,362,500$3,362,500 C, RW RFA - 2
Roy, Joshua $835,000$835,000 LW, RW RFA - 2	Gourde, Yanni $5,166,666$5,166,666 C, LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 1	Anderson, Josh $5,500,000$5,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 3
Gallagher, Brendan $6,500,000$6,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 3	Newhook, Alex $2,900,000$2,900,000 C, LW RFA - 3

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Matheson, Michael $4,875,000$4,875,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 2	Reinbacher, David $950,000$950,000 ($1,000,000$1M) RD RFA - 2	Montembeault, Samuel $3,150,000$3,150,000 G UFA - 3
Xhekaj, Arber $1,500,000$1,500,000 LD/RD RFA	Guhle, Kaiden $863,333$863,333 ($420,000$420K) LD/RD RFA - 1	Lankinen, Kevin $2,750,000$2,750,000 G UFA
Hutson, Lane $950,000$950,000 ($750,000$750K) LD RFA - 2	Savard, David $3,500,000$3,500,000 RD UFA - 1
	Mailloux, Logan $875,000$875,000 RD RFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Kovalenko, Nikolai $896,250$896,250 ($57,500$58K) RW RFA - 1		Price, Carey $10,500,000$10,500,000 G NMC UFA - 2
Harris, Jordan $1,400,000$1,400,000 LD/RD RFA - 1
Beck, Owen $885,000$885,000 ($20,000$20K) C RFA - 2

Apr. 25 at 11:36 a.m.

Chapee44

Joined: Jan. 2019

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While the Buffalo idea is good in principle, I can't see them doing that for Barron. Value isn't there. They're more likely to move the pick all together for a proven entity.

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Apr. 25 at 11:38 a.m.

Renegade_H

Flyers

Joined: Jun. 2023

Posts: 545

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Thats not an overpay for TK.

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Apr. 25 at 11:40 a.m.

GMDannyB

Danny B is here

Joined: Jun. 2023

Posts: 5,063

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Quoting: Renegade_H

Thats not an overpay for TK.

Yeah I was going to say the same thing lol if anything that’s an underpay. TK is going to command a top 15 1st and a good prospect or the Flyers will just re-sign him.

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Apr. 25 at 11:42 a.m.

MNCountryClub

Joined: May 2021

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Can't see MN being interested in that. Evans obviously doesn't move the needle whatsoever, so it's basically Rossi for Mesar. They'd have to be extremely bullish on Mesar.

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Apr. 25 at 11:52 a.m.

F50marco

Joined: May 2015

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Every single deal favors MTL a little too much. With the exception of the Struble deal, which I can't fathom the logic for.

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Apr. 25 at 11:57 a.m.

Windjammer

Joined: Jul. 2020

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All teams that aren't Montreal say no to overpaying for mediocrity.

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Apr. 25 at 11:59 a.m.

BUF10

Joined: Sep. 2022

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Baron isn’t the type of player they need.

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Apr. 25 at 2:40 p.m.

Lsendel3

Joined: Feb. 2020

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Can Buffalo pay for something better than a a maybe in Barron? I’d rather not get anything back for a proven RHD vs a maybe, and by your own description Buffalo should too, except this ain’t it.

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Apr. 25 at 2:50 p.m.

JokiStan

2285 Stanley Cup Cha

Joined: Jun. 2020

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"well buffalo has to spend their assets eventually" isn't a reason they'd do this trade. Pass

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Apr. 26 at 3:56 a.m.

#10

EccE

Joined: Jul. 2020

Posts: 1,976

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Rossi is not a buy-low option, though. The guy just scored 21 goals in his rookie season and might be a Calder finalist. Rossi's value is as high as it's been ever since being drafted.

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