Équipe: 2020-21 Canadiens de Montréal

Date de création initiale: 29 juill. 2020

Publié: 30 juill. 2020

Mode - plafond salarial: Basique

It's an overloaded defense for sure, but balanced. Realistically any pairing could play as the 1st pairing depending on match ups. In this situation, if the Habs are in a playoff / contending spot come 2021 trade deadline, you keep Petry as your "own rental". If Habs aren't in the playoff picture, you move Petry for assets at the deadline, and give #3RD to either Juulsen or Fleury.

Resign Kovalchuk as a mentor for Romanov and *fingers crossed* Lafreniere.

Sign a decent back up for once. Try and keep the cap hit low, add year or two on contract to do this. I chose Greiss, but Crawford, Dell, C.Anderson also other options.

One more tweak you could add that Habs would still have cap space for is another vet 4th liner (Thompson). Send Evans back to Laval and you still have over $2mil in cap space.


I think overall, this gives Bergevin one last year to "go for it". If it still doesn't work, with all the expiring contracts and the expansion draft, perfect time to officially rebuild around Lafreniere and move on from the old core players.

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