Équipe: 2023-24 Canadiens de Montréal

Date de création initiale: 19 sept. 2023

Publié: 19 sept. 2023

Mode - plafond salarial: Basique

I used the "taxi squad" to single out the waivers exempt Xhekaj, who's been penciled to the AHL to make the team cap-compliant before putting Price's contract on the LTIR, in season.
In particular, I edited the solution below, not to pencil Slaf in Laval, after reading an interesting discussion this in the The Athletic about perf bonuses: https://theathletic.com/4880610/2023/09/19/canadiens-trade-tanner-pearson-jeff-petry/

In a nutshell, penciling Slaf to Laval is not a very good idea, because when he'd be called back, his potential bonuses (the 3.5M in parentheses above) would count against the cap. When the player starts the season in the NHL, bonuses can be carried forward to the next year if needed; if he starts in the AHL, they can't. Xhekaj does not have perf bonuses.

Given the decisions taken by the Habs to open the season, I am inclined to believe that they indeed HAD to put Dvorak and Wideman on the IR. The only solution was then to start Dvorak on the LTIR. Note that Armia cleared waivers but was brought back on the team (on paper at least) to maximize the usage of the LTIR pool. Unless I am mistaken, the "110,417" cap space below is in fact lost by now as the pool was not fully maximized.