NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MARCH 03: The Montreal Canadiens. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)
The Montreal Canadiens are not going to be affected as much as other teams by a flat salary cap. But they can’t afford to go wild in free agency either.
The Montreal Canadiens have not come close to spending to the salary cap ceiling in the past three years. Perhaps not so coincidentally, they were not good enough to qualify for the postseason in any of those seasons. Well, at least not the old fashioned way.
Due to the global pandemic, the league pressing the pause button and teams gearing up to return to action in late July to finish off the 2019-20 campaign, the Canadiens could sneak into the playoffs anyway.