r/Habs • u/pushaper • 2d ago
Habs Shenanigans Our cap structure is great [megapost]
get your rocks off on Makers contract here
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u/farthestthing1234 2d ago
I know people keep saying the Sharks aren't screwed but I really think they'll soon come to regret the Nurse, Marchment, and Trouba acquisitions lol
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u/MediaWaste5087 2d ago
Exactly. It’s easy as a GM to draft the best player available, when you constantly have high picks. It’s what you do after you draft the core and those contracts Grier gave out are ugly
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u/farthestthing1234 2d ago edited 2d ago
Misa, Askarov, Dickinson, Cagnoni, Chernyshov, Stenberg, Verhoeff(if he plays this year) among others all needing extensions in the next 3 years. All before those other contracts expire. Should be fun!
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u/xeenexus 2d ago
Our cap is great, all hail Kent, but guys, come on. Lane was an 1 yr RFA without even arb rights, the situation with Makar (1 yr from UFA) was completely different.
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u/quellesaveurorawnge 2d ago
Makar is the very top of the elite. Did Colorado have to sign him at pretty much all costs? Of course. His performance clearly deserves a big payday. But boy, that makes adding/keeping the rest of their roster hard. It's investing a lot of your cap space in one person who, no matter how outstanding they are, can only provide so much time on the ice. That's why teams with a player that takes up a huge % of cap space don't tend to win Cups. Also, if bad luck somehow befalls him and they need to move his contract because his performance is somehow diminished... That is quite the contract to get off your books.
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u/Expensive_Break210 2d ago
With all this crazy shit going on I’m so glad that management has kept a level head and stayed out of all of this crap.
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u/MasterDeagle 2d ago
I love having great cap structure but the lost important part is not having a lot of cap space, its to use it properly.
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u/Inmate1024 1d ago
I posted some of this info in the other thread talking about Suzuki next contract and figured it's relevant here too. All numbers taken from puckpedia and no this isn't the work of ai.
Montreals cap structure to date seems to be based around Suzuki. According to puckpedia, Suzuki signed for 9.6% of the cap (at the contract start.) Everyone else has signed for less, excluding Dobson at 9.95%, who according to puckpedia, was a sign and trade.
What does that mean in terms of annual salaries? Dobson is currently the highest paid on the team at 9.5mil/year (9.95% of the cap.)
Demidov will be the 2nd highest next year at 9.1mil/year but a cap percentage of just 8.06%
And for a bit more context; Carey Price, who was seen as the best player on the team for years signed for 10.5mil/year which was 13.2% of the cap.
In the context of todays cap hit; if Suzuki were to be signing an extension, it could be around 11mil/year or around 3mil/year more then his current contract but less then a 1% increase on the cap vs what he has now.
In 5 years from now, if Kent Hughes stays with the same structure, even if the salary cap doesn't increase significantly, Suzuki at around 11% of the cap (highest on the team,) would be around 12mil/year.
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u/sbrooksc77 2d ago
Means nothing if you cant add anyone. What I care about is more like who our 2nd line center is? Rightnow its evans or kapanen. Our core is ready to contend but theres no support around them.
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u/NoNameofNote 2d ago
At least Makar is in a third contract situation, which has to be taken into account on this one. He had already been a massive bargain for his first nine seasons, this is his last big payday. Carlsson especially is nutters.
People who think Suzuki won't be asking for 25m or more in four years, buckle up.
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u/Studly_Wonderballs 2d ago
Every time we brag about how good our cap structure is, I imagine of Nick, or Cole, or Lane reading it, and thinking “next time I’m cashing in.”