This is the way

Created by: nic_par

Team: 2025-26 Montreal Canadiens

Initial Creation Date: Mar. 10, 2024

Published: Mar. 10, 2024

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Legend

Left Handed

Original Team

Waivers Exempt

Right Handed

Position

Trade Clause

Max Perf. Bonus

Expiry Status

Term Remaining

McDavid, Connor

$12,500,000 ( Performance Bonus

$250,000)

NMC

UFA - 5

Description

This is a contender

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST	YEARS	CAP HIT
Hutson, Lane	2	$950,000
Xhekaj, Florian	3	$850,000
Tuch, Luke	2	$800,000
Engström, Adam	2	$850,000
Kapanen, Oliver	2	$850,000
Fowler, Jacob	3	$950,000

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Primeau, Cayden	2	$950,000
Slafkovsky, Juraj	8	$7,500,000
Xhekaj, Arber	2	$1,500,000
Struble, Jayden	2	$1,500,000
Guhle, Kaiden	8	$6,750,000
Heineman, Emil	2	$900,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Roy, Matt	5	$5,250,000
Kovacevic, Johnathan	2	$900,000
Crosby, Sidney	2	$8,700,000

CREATED		YEARS	CAP HIT
Catton, Berkly		3	$950,000

Trades

MTL

Burakovsky, André
2025 2nd round pick (SEA)

SEA

Matheson, Michael

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	$92,500,000	$76,269,166	$0	$1,020,000	$16,230,834

Roster

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Caufield, Cole $7,850,000$7,850,000 LW, RW UFA - 6	Suzuki, Nick $7,875,000$7,875,000 C UFA - 5	Slafkovsky, Juraj $7,500,000$7,500,000 RW, LW UFA - 8
Catton, Berkly $950,000$950,000	Dach, Kirby $3,362,500$3,362,500 C, RW RFA - 1	Burakovsky, André $5,500,000$5,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 2
Newhook, Alex $2,900,000$2,900,000 C, LW RFA - 2	Crosby, Sidney $8,700,000$8,700,000 C UFA	Roy, Joshua $835,000$835,000 LW, RW RFA - 1
Heineman, Emil $900,000$900,000 LW, RW RFA	Beck, Owen $853,333$853,333 ($20,000$20K) C RFA - 2	Anderson, Josh $5,500,000$5,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 2
Tuch, Luke $800,000$800,000 LW RFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Guhle, Kaiden $6,750,000$6,750,000 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	Roy, Matt $5,250,000$5,250,000 RD UFA - 6	Primeau, Cayden $950,000$950,000 G RFA
Struble, Jayden $1,500,000$1,500,000 LD RFA	Reinbacher, David $918,333$918,333 ($1,000,000$1M) RD RFA - 2
Xhekaj, Arber $1,500,000$1,500,000 LD/RD RFA	Kovacevic, Johnathan $900,000$900,000 RD UFA

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
		Price, Carey $10,500,000$10,500,000 G NMC UFA - 1
		Gallagher, Brendan $6,500,000$6,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 2

Special Teams

Power Play 1
Caufield, C.		Suzuki, N.		Slafkovsky, J.
	Catton, B.		Hutson, L.

Power Play 2
Burakovsky, A.		Crosby, S.		Dach, K.
	Roy, J.		Mailloux, L.

Penalty Kill 1
	Beck, O.	Heineman, E.
	Guhle, K.	Roy, M.

Penalty Kill 2
	Crosby, S.	Roy, J.
	Struble, J.	Reinbacher, D.

Top Comments

Mar. 10 at 12:04 p.m.

reelnb

Misses Danault

Joined: Jan. 2022

Posts: 360

Likes: 202

It most certainly is not the way

Matheson makes frustrating mistakes sometimes, but he's a very good top 4 defenceman, the difference between him and Burakovsky is way more than a 2nd

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