Montreal Free Agents:

Restricted (Class II): Carey Price, Brock Trotter

Unrestricted (Class III): Marc-Andre Bergeron, Alex Henry, Janne Lahti, Paul Mara, Glen Metropolit, Dominic Moore

Unrestricted (Class VI): Andre Benoit

Unrestricted (Class UFA): Michael Busto, Georges Laraque

Players will be removed from the list as they sign.

Relevant Links:
2009-10 Cap Calculations
HW Contract Page
Current Cap Situation
Waiver situation (Last season)

The following players must, after clearing waivers to be assigned to Hamilton, clear recall waivers to re-join the Habs:
N/A

The following players, if assigned to Hamilton after clearing regular waivers, would still count against the cap:
Jaroslav Spacek

Known no-trade clauses:
Mike Cammalleri: (Limited NTC, details unavailable)
Brian Gionta: (Full NTC)
Scott Gomez: (Partial NTC - is allowed to add 3 teams he won't accept a trade to each season - now hearing the max teams he can't be dealt to is 3 that can change annually...)
Roman Hamrlik: (Partial NTC until Feb. 1/11 - list of 6 East and 6 West teams he'll accept a trade to; no NTC after)
Andrei Markov: (Limited NTC untill Feb. 1/11 - list of 7 East and 7 West teams he'll accept a trade to, no NTC after)
Tomas Plekanec: (Modified NTC, details unavailable)
Jaroslav Spacek: (Limited NTC, details unavailable)

If you have any questions, either PM me or reply to this thread. (As this is a thread for everyone, if there's something you'd like covered, please let me know.) More information will be added throughout the season and as it becomes available. The thread will be cleaned out periodically to keep all relevant information within 1 page.

50-Contract Situation for 2010-11:

Scorecard
Total committed contracts (includes buyout candidates): 44
+ RFA's (includes non-qualified or potential unsignees): 2
= Potential committed contracts (maximum 50 allowable): 46

Legend: Black - under contract, Red - RFA, Blue - UFA, Purple - Needs to be signed for next season or rights lost. SR - Slide Rule, NQC - Non-Qualification Candidate, BY - Buyout candidate

Forwards
Alexander Avtsin - SR
Hunter Bishop
Dustin Boyd
Mike Cammalleri
Andrew Conboy
Mathieu Darche
David Desharnais
Gabriel Dumont - SR
Lars Eller
Andreas Engqvist
Olivier Fortier
Brian Gionta
Scott Gomez
Andrei Kostitsyn
Maxim Lapierre
Phillipe Lefebvre - SR
Dany Masse
Ben Maxwell
Travis Moen
Max Pacioretty
Aaron Palushaj
Tomas Plekanec
Benoit Pouliot
Tom Pyatt
Ryan Russell
Ian Schultz
Ryan White
J.T. Wyman
Brock Trotter
Georges Laraque
Glen Metropolit
Dominic Moore

Defence:
Mathieu Carle
Hal Gill
Josh Gorges
Roman Hamrlik
Kyle Klubertanz
Andrei Markov
Brendon Nash
Ryan O'Byrne
Jaroslav Spacek
Frederic St. Denis
P.K. Subban
Yannick Weber
Andre Benoit
Marc-Andre Bergeron
Michael Busto
Alex Henry
Paul Mara
David Fischer (Must sign by August 15)

Goalies:
Alex Auld
Cedrick Desjardins
Robert Mayer
Curtis Sanford
Carey Price

Contract page on the main site has been updated to reflect the Hunter Bishop contract details.

Contract for Nash is the same as Bishop, details are available on HW's Twitter page; I'll probably update the contract page sometime tomorrow (too much homework right now).

2nd post now shows the contract situation for next season with regards to the 50-contract limit and how many potentially available contracts exist. 26/50 contracts committed currently with 16 RFA's (and surely a few UFA's will be (re-)signed).

http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/story/2010...l#ixzz0k61r1BAW

Didn't see this posted anywhere, but it looks like the cap will go up by about $900,000 next year. The panelists also talk about how that's the main reason the Habs haven't signed Plekanec yet, they want to know the final cap number first.

Dumont contract details now added on the site, as well as updates to Bishop/Nash's deals (it turns out they do have bonuses after all...)

Now with the season over, I can get back to looking at the contract stuff - Shawn Belle and Andre Benoit are now Group 6 free agents (or unrestricted). I've updated the contract scorecard (2nd post of this thread) to reflect this change.

During the Heritage Classic announcement today, Bettman suggested the cap would be going up by $2 million. That'd give the Habs a bit more flexibility...

http://twitter.com/Real_ESPNLeBrun/status/14923458495

That's gonna help.

Not that this should come as any shocker, but apparently Laraque's been told that the Habs will start the buyout process on his contract on June 15th (the first day possible). For those who don't know, his cap hit will be $500,000 in each of 2010-11 and 2011-12.

Source

Eller and Schultz's contract details (including bonuses and AHL salaries) added to the contracts page on HW. I've also updated the contract scorecard (still 43 projected) in the 2nd post of this thread. I will hopefully soon get around to updating the first post which still shows a lot of last year's free agent stuff.

Schultz should have the 'Slide Rule' in effect on his contract, correct? So he's really a full 3 year deal, not 2 years remaining.

You're right, I haven't even looked at that element (it applies to Lefebvre as well). I'll get around to fixing that up as well at some point; thanks for reminding me, I may not have caught it otherwise since he's not a SR player this season.

I've now posted an article on the main page detailing the cap situation moving forward (updated with Pouliot's deal); the Habs have roughly $3 M to spend on UFA's.

http://www.habsworld.net/article.php?id=2091

Also, Hamrlik has not and will not be placed on unconditional waivers so he will not be bought out prior to next season. No cap relief coming from that juncture now.

Adjusted for him and Lefebvre. Adjustments as a result of signing bonuses being paid out but the contract sliding over:

Schultz: Cap hit from $875,000 to $845,833
Lefebvre: Cap hit from $535,000 to $522,778

Also note that Lefebvre is eligible for another slide next season if he goes back to the QMJHL.