2019 Official Montreal Canadiens Off-Season Thread

[Adam Michaels]

GM: Marc Bergevin
Assistant GMs: Trevor Timmins & Scott Mellanby
Head Coach: Claude Julien
Associate Coach: Kirk Muller
Assistant Coaches: Dominique Ducharme & Luke Richardson
Goalie Coach: Stephane Waite

DEPARTURES
Sébastien Bordeleau (Skills Coach leaves to join the Nashville Predators
in a Player Development role for forwards)

ARRIVALS

UFA
Jordan Weal (Signed to 2-Year, 1-Way Contract - $1.4M AAV)
Nate Thompson (Signed to 1-Year, 1-Way Contract - $1M AAV)
Christian Folin (Signed to 1-Year, 1-Way Contract - $800K AAV)
Alex Belzile (Signed to 1-Year, 2-Way Contract - $700K AAV)

RFA
Brett Kulak (Signed to 3-Year, 1-Way Contract - $1.85M AAV)
Xavier Ouellet (Signed to 1-Year, 2-Way Contract - $700K AAV)
Gustav Olofsson (Signed to 1-Year, 2-Way Contract - $700K AAV)
Mike Reilly (Signed to 2-Year, 1-Way Contract - $1.5M AAV)
Joel Armia (Signed to 2-Year, 1-Way Contract - $2.6M AAV)
Artturi Lehkonen (Signed to 2-Year, 1-Way Contract - $2.4M AAV)
Charles Hudon (Signed to 1-Year, 1-Way Contract - $800K AAV)


UFA SIGNINGS
Otto Leskinen (Signed to 2-Year, 2-Way ELC - $925K AAV)
Keith Kinkaid (Signed to 1-Year, 1-Way Contract - $1.75M AAV)
Riley Barber (Signed to 1-Year, 2-Way Contract - $700K AAV)
Phil Varone (Signed to 1-Year, 2-Way Contract - $700K AAV)
Ben Chiarot (Signed to 3-Year, 1-Way Contract - $3.5M AAV)
Nick Cousins (Signed to 1-Year 1-Way Contract - $1M AAV)

SIGNED TO OFFER SHEET
Sebastian Aho (Signed to 5-Year Offer Sheet - $8.45M) - Matched on July 7th

TRADES
[MTL/CHI] Andrew Shaw + 2021 7th <--> 2020 2nd + 2020 7th + 2021 3rd
[MTL/ANA] Nicolas Deslauriers <--> 2020 4th

15th- Cole Caufield
46th- Jayden Struble
64th- Mattias Norlinder
77th - Gianni Fairbrother
126th- Jacob LeGuerrier
131st - Rhett Pitlick
138th- Frederik Nissen Dichow
170th- Arsen Khisamudtinov
201st- Raphaël Harvey-Pinard
206th- Kieran Ruscheinski

GM: Marc Bergevin
Head Coach: Joël Bouchard
Assistant Coaches: Alex Burrows & Daniel Jacobs
Goalie Coach: Marco Marciano

RFA
Michael McCarron (Signed to 1-Year, 2-Way Contract - $700K AAV)

AHL FREE AGENTS
Nikita Jevpalovs (Signed to 1-Year, 1-Way AHL Contract)
Ryan Culkin (Signed to 1-Year, 1-Way AHL Contract)
Morgan Adams-Moisan (Signed to 1-Year, 2-Way AHL Contract)
Joe Cox (Signed to 1-Year, 2-Way AHL Contract)
Connor LaCouvee (Signed to 1-Year, 2-Way AHL Contract)
William Pelletier (Signed to 1-Year, 1-Way AHL Contract)
Alexandre Grenier
Étienne Marcoux
T.J. Melancon


PROSPECTS SIGNED TO ELC
Ryan Poehling (Signed to 3-Year ELC - $925K AAV)
Cayden Primeau (Signed to 3-Year ELC - $880K AAV)​

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[Adam Michaels]

Updated OP with the Folin extension.

 

[PhysicX]

Great thread, will follow.

 

[Adam Michaels]

Small update on the OP. With Winnipeg eliminated, the Jets' 7th Round Pick Habs picked up in the Armia trade is pick #208.

 

[Adam Michaels]

Updated OP with Thompson extension.

 

[EveryDay]

Rumour MTL is trying to get Weal sign according to Pierre Lebrun.

 

[Adam Michaels]

Rumour MTL is trying to get Weal sign according to Pierre Lebrun.

 

[Adam Michaels]

A little late to this. But I've been swamped at work. So I just updated the OP with Weal's new deal.

 

[Adam Michaels]

They've apparently also asked to speak with Sean Burke. Permission granted for him, too.

 

[Adam Michaels]

Updated the OP with the signing of Otto Leskinen from earlier today.





Also must specify that I put Leskinen's ELC at maximum because it's what CapFriendly does automatically for ELC's until they get more details on the AAV.

 

[Adam Michaels]

Updated the OP. With the Conference Finals now set, we know the Columbus 2nd Round Pick is #50 and the Winnipeg 7th Round Pick is #206.

 

[Adam Michaels]

Andrew wouldn't tease something like this for the hell of it. So something must be up.

 

[Le Barron de HF]

Andrew wouldn't tease something like this for the hell of it. So something must be up.

Given what he covers for HEOTP, a ECHL team in Quebec is my guess.

 

[Adam Michaels]

Given what he covers for HEOTP, a ECHL team in Quebec is my guess.

It's what I replied to him. I asked if it was AHL, NHL, or ECHL related. I also predicted that if it is ECHL, then my guess is it's related to the new arena in Trois-Rivières.

He posted another tweet later talking about the arena's construction is going as planned but there is no tenant. It will either be a QMJHL team or Habs' new ECHL affiliate (which is my hope). I posted that tweet in the Laval/ECHL thread.

 

[Adam Michaels]

As the title suggests, all of the games at home will start @ 7PM, including preseason. They polled season ticket holders.

 

[Vachon23]

Great news

 

[Rockinron]

This is awesome news for a die hard habs fan in Calgary AB !!!!!

 

[mbz]

Great news for atlantic time zone residents like myself !

 

[Seb]

Can't see anything wrong with that

 

[Le Tricolore]

I'm happy with this

 

[ahmedou]

No more missing games. That's not late. For the fans on TV. Being on time. For the fans at the BC too. Who're from far spots. It's in our and their advantage.

 

[Le Barron de HF]

So no afternoon games? Great.

 

[Adam Michaels]

So no afternoon games? Great.

There will be afternoon games. It's just the games at night will all be at 7.

 

[habdynasty]

Great news for us western fans.

 

[Belial]

You mean 7:16? lol

Well anyways better than 7:46....