DRAFT IGINLA PLUS TRADE UP FOR EISERMAN

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Created by: nilees24

Team: 2024-25 Montreal Canadiens

Initial Creation Date: May 4, 2024

Published: May 4, 2024

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

2024 Off-Season Free Agent Departures:
Tanner Pearson (UFA)
Jesse Ylönen (RFA to UFA G6)
Lias Andersson (RFA to UFA G6)
Filip Cederqvist (RFA to UFA G6)
Arnaud Durandeau (UFA G6)
Colin White (UFA)
Mitchell Stephens (UFA)
Philippe Maillet (UFA)
Mattias Norlinder (RFA to UFA G6)
Brady Keeper (UFA)
Chris Wideman (UFA)

2024 NHL Draft results (1st 3 rounds):
5th overall pick acquire Tij Iginla (C)
6th overall pick (from UTAH) acquire Cole Eiserman (LW)
64th overall pick (from COL) acquire Justin Poirier (RW)
70th overall pick acquire Carson Wetsch (RW)
78th overall pick (from MIN) acquire Tomas Lavoie (RD)

Trade candidates at 2025 Trade Deadline should Canadiens struggle during 2024/25 Season (only 1 of these 5 UFAs are 50% salary retention candidates):
Anthony Mantha (UFA) - final year of contract (3rd round return)
Christian Dvorak (UFA) - final year of contract (5th round return)
Joel Armia (UFA) - final year of contract (3rd round return)
David Savard (UFA) - final year of contract (late 1st round return)
Johnathan Kovacevic (UFA) - final year of contract (5th round return)

Additional 2025 Off-Season Free Agent Departures:
Rafaël Harvey-Pinard (RFA to UFA G6)
Jacob Perreault (RFA to UFA G6)
Lucas Condotta (UFA)
Brandon Gignac (UFA)
Sean Farrell (RFA trade candidate)
Justin Barron (RFA trade candidate)
Cal Petersen (UFA)

UFA's re-signing after 2025 Trade Deadline or during 2025 Off-Season:
Jake Evans (3 year / 7.5 million)
Michael Pezzetta (1 year / 825k)

2025 Off-Season Trade (on 2025 Draft floor):
Trade Justin Barron, Sean Farrell, 2025 1st Rd pick (unprotected and likely top-10) to Anaheim for Trevor Zegras

2025 Off-Season Reserve List signings (x5):
Oliver Kapanen (C)
Rhett Pitlick (LW)
Ty Murchison (LD)
Jacob Fowler (G)
Quentin Miller (G)

Team Roster at start of 2025/26 Season (playoff contender):
Caufield - Suzuki 'C' - Slafkovsky
Zegras (via trade) - *Crosby 'A' (UFA) - Dach
Roy - Newhook - Gallagher 'A'
Heineman - Evans - Mesar
(Pezzetta) (Simoneau)

Matheson 'A' - Guhle
Hutson - Mailloux
Struble - Xhekaj
(Reinbacher)

Primeau - Montembeault
(Fowler)

*Sidney Crosby signs during 2025 off-season at 4 year / 36 million (9 million per year)
**Josh Anderson is a 2025 off-season buyout candidate

Approx. salary cap hit for 2025/26 season:
83 million

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST	YEARS	CAP HIT
Guindon, Cedrick	3	$833,333
Davidson, Jared	2	$825,000
Biondi, Blake	2	$825,000
Nurmi, Petteri	2	$825,000
Tourigny, Miguël	2	$825,000

RFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Xhekaj, Arber		5	$2,250,000
Barron, Justin		1	$850,000

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Mantha, Anthony		1	$5,000,000
Simek, Radim		1	$775,000

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

Trades

MTL

2024 1st round pick (ARI)

ARI

Harris, Jordan
2024 1st round pick (WPG)
2025 1st round pick (CGY)

Additional Details:

*Off-Season trade on the 2024 Draft floor. Canadiens trade the 24th overall pick in the 2024 NHL Draft (from WPG) along with a 1st round pick in the 2025 NHL Draft (from CGY) plus Jordan Harris to the Utah Blizzard for the 6th overall pick in the 2024 NHL Draft. Acquire Cole Eiserman (LW).

MTL

Murchison, Ty [Reserve List]
Petersen, Cal

PHI

*future considerations

Trade after 2024 NHL Draft. Flyers clear cap space for 2024/25 season. The price to clear this amount of cap space is Ty Murchison (LD).

Retained Salary Transactions

Jeff Petry: $2,343,750 (50%)
Jake Allen: $1,925,000 (50%)

Buried

Cal Petersen: $3,850,000 ($5,000,000)

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	$87,500,000	$79,488,750	$1,022,500	$4,727,500	$8,011,250

Roster

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
Mantha, Anthony $5,000,000$5,000,000 LW, RW UFA	Newhook, Alex $2,900,000$2,900,000 C, LW RFA - 3	Dach, Kirby $3,362,500$3,362,500 C, RW RFA - 2
Roy, Joshua $835,000$835,000 LW, RW RFA - 2	Dvorak, Christian $4,450,000$4,450,000 C M-NTC UFA - 1	Gallagher, Brendan $6,500,000$6,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 3
Armia, Joel $3,400,000$3,400,000 RW, LW UFA - 1	Evans, Jake $1,700,000$1,700,000 C UFA - 1	Anderson, Josh $5,500,000$5,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 3
Pezzetta, Michael $812,500$812,500 LW, RW UFA - 1		Harvey-Pinard, Rafaël $1,100,000$1,100,000 LW, RW RFA - 1

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 $2,250,000$2,250,000 LD/RD RFA	Kovacevic, Johnathan $766,667$766,667 RD UFA - 1
Struble, Jayden $867,500$867,500 ($57,500$58K) LD RFA - 1

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

Special Teams

Power Play 1
Caufield, C.		Suzuki, N.		Newhook, A.
	Hutson, L.		Matheson, M.

Power Play 2
Slafkovsky, J.		Dach, K.		Mantha, A.
	Guhle, K.		Anderson, J.

Penalty Kill 1
	Evans, J.	Gallagher, B.
	Matheson, M.	Kovacevic, J.

Penalty Kill 2
	Newhook, A.	Armia, J.
	Xhekaj, A.	Savard, D.

May 4 at 9:17 p.m.

jonh514

HuGo is a Boss GM

Joined: Dec. 2021

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That doesn't get you the 6OA. You have to know that, right? Couple of late 1st picks and a bottom pair defender...

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May 4 at 9:18 p.m.

Shaun80

Joined: Jul. 2023

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Utah passes, a late first and a top 10 protected pick for a 6th overall isn't enough. Gonna have to give up one of your stud defensemen, because that's what you're asking them to pass on.

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May 4 at 9:19 p.m.

Wqrrior

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quick way for utah to lose fans.

armstrong is way too good of a gm to do anything close to this bad.

harris is worth a 3rd. maybe they will move that for him.

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May 4 at 9:40 p.m.

OldNYIfan

Once a Kings Fan Too

Joined: Jun. 2018

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Utah's new owners have stated, emphatically and often, that they want to make an immediate splash, so I can't see the team trading out of the top ten. William Eklund and the #14 for #6 is conceivable, but anything else seems impossible.

May 4 at 10:19 p.m.

Billy316

Jesus Christ Is King

Joined: Mar. 2017

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You'd have to give up Matheson ,Barron, WPG's first and COL 2nd i think
That would fill the holes they need on Defense giving them 2 picks in the 23rd-62nd OA range likely 1 at the higher end and 1 at the lower end.

Matheson makes them Competitive
Barron isnt as far off as people pretend he's just had the most Waiver Flexibility
Harris was done his Exempt Status at Christmas, Struble is done his in 13 games? Xhekaj had 90 some as did Guhle
Barron had 114 Waiver Exempt games left to start the season
His stats were on par with Guhle, Xhekaj,Struble and Harris
TBH if Kovacevic wasnt the defensive Anchor last year as Savard with Matheson has been activated a lot more offensively then years past.
Then i think Kovacevic woulda been moved out to make room for Barron but the 6'5 Kovacevic was the only thing keeping MTL games to 1 goal most nights but i digress.
Barron certainly has the highest upside on PP of anyone but Matheson and Hutson in our system lets not forget. He's a guy defined by PP minutes like Matheson was for years.
It wasnt until MTL gave Matheson 6 more minutes on average that his game grew leaps and bounds. Which is what you'll likely see from Barron the next 3 seasons just the same before rising up.

WPG pick can net you a Cole Hutson at worst and a Liam Greentree at best.
COL pick can grab them a Project player likely a Goalie

It fixes ARZ/Utah's immediate issues on the Blue Line
While adding a 4th pick in the 2nd round this year
They trade down lets say 17 spots but the cost of trading up for 20-32nd overall picks wont be that high by comparison

May 4 at 10:25 p.m.

Shaun80

Joined: Jul. 2023

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The best winnipegs pick can end up is 26th, so they're trading down 20 spots.

May 4 at 10:30 p.m.

NHLfan10506

Joined: May 2019

Posts: 41,607

Likes: 18,896

G6 unrestricted free agents are players with expiring contracts that haven’t reached minimum appearances.

They are different from restricted free agents that are not given qualified offers.

Both become UFA in the end, but different paths getting there.

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