Quantity over quality

Created by: jonh514

Team: 2024-25 Montreal Canadiens

Initial Creation Date: Jun. 22, 2024

Published: Jun. 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

Description

Top 5 picks don't get traded often. This deal let's the Habs get better right away, while it lets the Sabres promote players like Kulich, Ostlund, Rosen and draft twice in the top 11 for players who will be ready in about 3 years.

Trades

MTL

Additional Details:

Habs profit from some of the Sabres wealth of young high picks in recent years who won't have a spot in their top 9

BUF

2024 1st round pick (MTL)

Additional Details:

Sabres go get a young stud like Lindstrom or Demidov to augment their pipeline

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

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$88,000,000	$70,671,250	$1,022,500	$6,520,000	$17,328,750

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
Savoie, Matthew $886,667$886,667 ($1,000,000$1M) C RFA - 3	Dach, Kirby $3,362,500$3,362,500 C, RW RFA - 2	Quinn, Jack $863,333$863,333 ($850,000$850K) RW, LW RFA - 1
Roy, Joshua $835,000$835,000 LW, RW RFA - 2	Newhook, Alex $2,900,000$2,900,000 C, LW RFA - 3	Armia, Joel $3,400,000$3,400,000 RW, LW UFA - 1
Anderson, Josh $5,500,000$5,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 3	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
Harvey-Pinard, Rafaël $1,100,000$1,100,000 LW, RW RFA - 1	Dvorak, Christian $4,450,000$4,450,000 C M-NTC UFA - 1
Pezzetta, Michael $812,500$812,500 LW, RW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Matheson, Michael $4,875,000$4,875,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 2	Savard, David $3,500,000$3,500,000 RD UFA - 1	Montembeault, Samuel $3,150,000$3,150,000 G UFA - 3
Harris, Jordan $1,400,000$1,400,000 LD/RD RFA - 1	Kovacevic, Johnathan $766,667$766,667 RD UFA - 1	Primeau, Cayden $890,000$890,000 G RFA - 1
Hutson, Lane $950,000$950,000 ($750,000$750K) LD RFA - 2
Guhle, Kaiden $863,333$863,333 ($420,000$420K) LD/RD RFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
		Price, Carey $10,500,000$10,500,000 G NMC UFA - 2

Top Comments

Jun. 22 at 9:24 a.m.

BUF10

Joined: Sep. 2022

Posts: 945

Likes: 670

Quinn is already a good top 6 player Sabres have no reason to do this they finally seem they want to be serious about winning this year.

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Jun. 22 at 9:28 a.m.

jonh514

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Joined: Dec. 2021

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Quoting: BUF10

Quinn is already a good top 6 player Sabres have no reason to do this they finally seem they want to be serious about winning this year.

I was thinking the reason would be:

You have Kulich, Ostlund, Rosen waiting in the wings (among others). Basically you trade 2 if these 5, in order to let the others play.

If it's not these 2, then perhaps it's Kulich & Savoie, or Kulich & Rosen.

Basically the idea being that not all of your players who are high picks will be looking for extensions in the same 2 year period.

Also, you have tons of young talent, but no team in NHL history has won with a team as young as this.

Jun. 22 at 9:30 a.m.

wojme

Joined: Jun. 2017

Posts: 8,150

Likes: 6,292

Sabres trade a good roster player and a good prospect that's close to being NHL ready for another prospect to strengthen an already good prospect pool? It just doesn't make sense.

Jun. 22 at 9:32 a.m.

BUF10

Joined: Sep. 2022

Posts: 945

Likes: 670

Quoting: jonh514

They are buying out skinner. They are going to need ELC for the bad 4 years of the buyout. It doesn’t make sense from a Sabres perspective to trade an already established top 6 forward just because they have a lot of forward prospects.

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Jun. 22 at 9:40 a.m.

BUFF36

Joined: Apr. 2020

Posts: 5,930

Likes: 4,854

How about Rosen and Savoie

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