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Created by: IdealIdea

Team: 2024-25 Montreal Canadiens

Initial Creation Date: May 22, 2024

Published: May 22, 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

Free Agent Signings

RFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Xhekaj, Arber		4	$1,400,000

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Duclair, Anthony		1	$4,500,000

Trades

MTL

Kotkaniemi, Jesperi ($1,687,000 retained)

CAR

Anderson, Josh ($2,750,000 retained)
2025 4th round pick (MTL)

MTL

2024 2nd round pick (WSH)
2024 6th round pick (DAL)

UTA

MTL

2024 5th round pick (PIT)
2025 2nd round pick (SJS)

SJS

MTL

Greenway, Jordan
2024 3rd round pick (BUF)

BUF

Barron, Justin [RFA Rights]
Pitlick, Rhett [Reserve List]
Ylönen, Jesse [RFA Rights]

Retained Salary Transactions

Jeff Petry: $2,343,750 (50%)
Jake Allen: $1,925,000 (50%)
Josh Anderson: $2,750,000 (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
21	$87,700,000	$74,112,583	$1,022,500	$4,670,000	$13,587,417

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 UFA - 1
Newhook, Alex $2,900,000$2,900,000 C, LW RFA - 3	Dach, Kirby $3,362,500$3,362,500 C, RW RFA - 2	Duclair, Anthony $4,500,000$4,500,000 LW, RW UFA - 4
Roy, Joshua $835,000$835,000 LW, RW RFA - 2	Dvorak, Christian $4,450,000$4,450,000 C M-NTC UFA - 1	Armia, Joel $3,400,000$3,400,000 RW, LW UFA - 1
Greenway, Jordan $3,000,000$3,000,000 LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 1	Kotkaniemi, Jesperi $3,133,000$3,133,000 C UFA - 6	Gallagher, Brendan $6,500,000$6,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 3

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 ($750,000$750K) LD RFA - 2	Savard, David $3,500,000$3,500,000 RD UFA - 1	Primeau, Cayden $890,000$890,000 G RFA - 1
Xhekaj, Arber $1,400,000$1,400,000 LD/RD RFA	Mailloux, Logan $875,000$875,000 RD RFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Pezzetta, Michael $812,500$812,500 LW, RW UFA - 1		Price, Carey $10,500,000$10,500,000 G NMC UFA - 2

Top Comments

May 22 at 12:30 p.m.

Lancebmx

Joined: Oct. 2020

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Probably pretty easy no from every other team involved.

May 22 at 12:32 p.m.

Caniac2000

Joined: May 2018

Posts: 20,871

Likes: 5,220

Canes pass. You get to keep Anderson. You can have KK back if you want to pay for him, but we're not retaining.

May 22 at 12:41 p.m.

Subbanator7667

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That Buffalo trade is brutal for the the Habs

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May 22 at 1:21 p.m.

JustAnotherHockeyFan

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Joined: May 2024

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Quoting: Subbanator7667

That Buffalo trade is brutal for the the Habs

That’s funny, bc there’s no way Buffalo would do that either

sabres89 liked this.

May 22 at 9:06 p.m.

vols94

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SJ not giving up 33rd overall for 2 overage stiffs

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