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Look a couple of posts above his.

The irrelevance of the location of the hospital in which a player was born in notwithstanding, I'm not sure that it's a good thing the Habs are trying a 5'9 player who has failed several times in a bottom-six role before in a bottom-six role and hoping for a different result. Don't get me wrong, Barre-Boulet absolutely earned a spot but I'm expecting more of the same from him - basically, the same level of performance that had him on waivers several times in recent years.

It was designed to mimic the CF layout as much as possible. As Commandant noted, their numbers aren't the most accurate. PuckPedia isn't the most user-friendly but I'd trust the numbers on there a lot more.

No, but I wrote about it when their number came out in April so I'm staying with it for consistency: https://www.habsworld.net/2024/04/breaking-down-montreals-2023-24-bonus-overage-penalty/.

You definitely have the right idea of what they want to do. However, Xhekaj can only be buried up to $1.15 million; the other $150,000 stays on there which puts them back over slightly. (I think the overage penalty is a bit higher than PuckPedia's number as well.) Using your calculator, flipping Roy for Struble works if the PuckPedia overage number is right, it doesn't work if the CapFriendly number (which I use on the site) is correct. If the latter is correct, Struble and Roy would both have to go down with a cheaper player (Gignac, Condotta, or a waiver claim making $805K or less) being added to get them as tight to $88M as possible. Kapanen only has to be papered, not necessarily papered to Laval. They can paper him to the SHL to get around that. Nice work overall and I like the Excel spreadsheet which makes it a lot easier to play around with the numbers.

Gage Goncalves could be an interesting one as well. 23 years old with two above-average years (54 points in 22-23, 58 last year) in Tampa's system, 2020 second-rounder, saw a couple of NHL games last year.

Today's waiver list via PuckPedia: VAN: Brannstrom NYR: Robertson NYI: Skarek, Hogberg, Hutton, Bolduc, Karlstrom, Foudy, Fasching, Engvall OTT: Jenik, Gaudette VGK: Rondbjerg, Laczynski, Aston-Reese TOR: Rifai, Murray STL: Tucker, Schueneman BUF: Reimer, Rousek, Clague PIT: Imama, Aho BOS: Patera, Bussi, Sweezey, Viel, Brown CGY: Schwindt, Cooley, Pelletier DET: Holl, Lagesson, Rafferty, Snively, Dries WSH: Shepard EDM: Lavoie, Caggiula, J Brown, Rodrigue WPG: Anderson-Dolan NSH: Del Gaizo NJD: White, Foote, DeSimone, Bowers CHI: Phillips CAR: Suzuki, Smith, Josiah Slavin UTA: Villalta LAK: Studnicka, Copley, Fagemo TBL: Ylonen, Santini, Goncalves

Not every name is out there yet of the 59 players on waivers but it doesn't look like any Montreal players are in that group. That suggests Barre-Boulet is making the season-opening roster at least.

He struggled at the beginning of the preseason but has looked better in each game. He's probably not making the opening roster but he might get a shot as a recall at some point.

Their second power play might have been their best of the preseason. Admittedly, that's not saying a whole lot but they had zone time and some chances.

That's a pretty strange list they've come up with. Hathaway signed a contract extension recently, Deslauriers can't keep up, Blais is an unrestricted free agent at the NHL level, and Greenway fights like once a year. Laberge, meanwhile, has six career minutes played in the NHL at 26, why would any site think he'd even make the team?

Not sure about Tuch being in there. He's still not listed on Montreal's roster and wasn't announced as a recall. That said, he was a scratch for Laval today so it would make sense that he's up.

The NHL has quietly voided Montreal's re-assignment of Jacob Perreault from last weekend. Perreault was injured heading into training camp but technically, injured players can't be assigned to the AHL. Accordingly, until he's cleared to return, he must remain with the Canadiens, at least on paper. He has been returned to Montreal's roster per the NHL's Media Portal. This means that he will have the same salary cap treatment as David Reinbacher and must start the year on season-opening injured reserve. Since Perreault didn't spend any time on an NHL roster last season (either with Anaheim or Montreal), he won't carry any salary cap charge while he's on there.

Nothing from the team yet but Gignac, Condotta, and Trudeau have been recalled.

I needed a filler piece since nothing had been posted since Tuesday's postgame so this worked for a topic idea. There's grounds for termination if a player doesn't report. But do those grounds hold up if a player can't report? Vegas quietly indicated that they were willing to try it while the NHLPA quietly indicated they had every intention of grieving it if the Golden Knights went that route. The reality is that the CBA doesn't have a distinction between the two. Vegas easily could have opted to terminate and started the season in the exact spot they are now and wait to see how a grievance midseason would have played out. Those usually end in settlements anyway, often without any sort of serious cap penalty so it wouldn't shock me if this would have been the eventual outcome. They just got it out of the way now instead going through the hearing and the negative optics associated with it.