Value of: Dump Your Salary in Montreal

[mikeg]

With a season that already looked to be in the tank, it now seems inevitable that the Habs will be prime candidates for a lottery spot.

With a projected 12 Mil in cap space from capgeek and nothing to spend it on this season and potentially next because no one wants to play here, are there any teams that would be interested in dumping salary + assets (picks/prospects) in order to free up some space? And if so what would those deals look like?

Is someone like Ryan Callahan a player Tampa would like to move to free up space and what would they potentially move in a deal that would include him?

Is something like Callahan + 3rd in 2019 + Mitchell Stephens ridiculous? Or would Tampa be able to unload Callahan and pick up assets for themselves?

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[Liferleafer]

Leafs don't have any....but give us Petry anyways....

 

[LEAFANFORLIFE23]

Leafs don't have any....but give us Petry anyways....

Zaitdev is questionable

 

[Habs Halifax]

Leafs don't have any....but give us Petry anyways....

With Weber not returning till mid December and likely needing conditioning time, Petry is not going anywhere. If Weber returns in fine form and is the same Weber, We can talk a Petry trade before the deadline. However, we are getting a return that makes sense for the Habs, not the Leafs. The price? A 1st and a grade A prospect. Petry is a big body with mobility and some goal scoring ability. He does a lot of things well and his contract is very good for 3 more years.

I can see why you are interested. I also agree he would fit well on the Leafs. However, It sucks that you will have to trade futures to get him.

 

[CDN24]

Leafs don't have any....but give us Petry anyways....

For Marner?

For the first time in forever you guys have no truly bad contracts. Zaitsev maybe but its only 4 million. Only one that may bite is Marleau next year but its only 1 year. Definitely nothing LT and bad.

 

[chatty4756]

I wonder what montreal would want to take on the rest of hortons contract. Bracco+2nd plus something else?

 

[vokiel]

With Weber not returning till mid December and likely needing conditioning time, Petry is not going anywhere. If Weber returns in fine form and is the same Weber, We can talk a Petry trade before the deadline. However, we are getting a return that makes sense for the Habs, not the Leafs. The price? A 1st and a grade A prospect. Petry is a big body with mobility and some goal scoring ability. He does a lot of things well and his contract is very good for 3 more years.

I can see why you are interested. I also agree he would fit well on the Leafs. However, It sucks that you will have to trade futures to get him.

Screw that, trade him anyway and lets just tank properly.

 

[Habs Halifax]

I wonder what montreal would want to take on the rest of hortons contract. Bracco+2nd plus something else?

What is the problem with Horton? He can be placed on LTIR?

 

[Moosetache]

Lets see....Canes will give you Rask and Darling and ?PICKS? for Price. Whats that gonna cost us in picks (I'm giggling laughing at the answer to this).

 

[Habs Halifax]

Screw that, trade him anyway and lets just tank properly.

We need some leadership and a bridge to Juulsen, Fleury, Brook. That's either Weber or Petry. However, if the deal was too good to refuse, I would consider it. I also support the tank but we can't trade everybody. There is a measure of icing an NHL roster and still trying to tank but putting people in the seats should not be overlooked.

 

[UnleashRasmus]

Berglund with Alex Nylander for Andrew Shaw (C/RW)

 

[vokiel]

We need some leadership and a bridge to Juulsen, Fleury, Brook. That's either Weber or Petry. However, if the deal was too good to refuse, I would consider it. I also support the tank but we can't trade everybody. There is a measure of icing an NHL roster and still trying to tank but putting people in the seats should not be overlooked.

We have Pleks and Alzner

Berglund with Alex Nylander for Andrew Shaw (C/RW)

Done deal for me.

 

[danyhabsfan]

Berglund with Alex Nylander for Andrew Shaw (C/RW)

We want an all Swedes and Finns teams. Ristolainen and Larsson please

 

[SHANNYPLAN]

Leafs don't have any....but give us Petry anyways....

We’ve come so far ...

 

[tictactoe]

Andrew MacDonald at 50% plus 2nd in 2019... not exactly a dump. MacDonald at 50% 2.5 million is a good price. While Weber is out.

 

[SHANNYPLAN]

For Marner?

For the first time in forever you guys have no truly bad contracts. Zaitsev maybe but its only 4 million. Only one that may bite is Marleau next year but its only 1 year. Definitely nothing LT and bad.

Marleau makes around 4 million next year because of the way his contract was structured. He made over 8 million last season and 6 this coming one

 

[danyhabsfan]

Leafs don't have any....but give us Petry anyways....

Ok give us a Dermott/Liljegren/Der-Arguchintsev/picks

 

[ffh]

Bergevin loves cap dumps even if there self inflicted. look at weber and price.

 

[Hockeyholic]

Mitch Marner for Casperiotty

 

[TGWL]

The roster looks bad enough they shouldn't have to try and tank. I'm fully against teams "tanking", but I see Montreal being a lottery team while trying to compete.

 

[bleuetbio]

Berglund with Alex Nylander for Andrew Shaw (C/RW)

I do the deal for sure, but what happens to Nylander? It seems difficult for him in AHL

 

[Habs Halifax]

Berglund with Alex Nylander for Andrew Shaw (C/RW)

Decent offer.

 

[Price is Wright]

Send Spezza to Montreal with Jason Robertson (if Spezza doesn't want to play in Montreal we can immediately flip him with 50% cap retained to wherever he wants to go) and Hossa to Montreal with Ryan Shea and Chad Krys with some picks (Blackhawks ain't giving up Jokiharju, Bosqvist or Beaudin so I'm not gonna try. Give us the other D) and I think that's fine.

 

[mikeg]

The roster looks bad enough they shouldn't have to try and tank. I'm fully against teams "tanking", but I see Montreal being a lottery team while trying to compete.

It was already going to be tough with a healthy Weber. If Price is healthy he technically should make you a marginal 8/9/10 seed team, but without Weber for a quarter of the season it makes it that much harder. It's not really a tank until they start holding players back and selling off the Shaw's and Pacioretty's but it is pretty much a lost season anyways. Might as well as use that empty cap space and rent it out to teams that want to add.

 

[mikeg]

I think the goal is not necessarily about getting the best deal you can... it should be about accumulating as many assets as possible, whether it is picks or prospects that fit into the plan/identity that you are trying to implement. Basically the more the better and hopefully something eventually sticks.