The Montreal Canadiens have lots of cap space to play with this summer. They will of course look to improve their roster in any way possible. Fishing for unrestricted free agents, dabbling in the trade market and doing damage with their ten draft picks are a number of ways to accomplish this.
Another method of improving the roster is to use the offer sheet. It is seldom used by general managers around the National Hockey League. They seem to have some sort of gentleman’s agreement to avoid offer sheets at all costs. I guess this is an attempt to keep salaries down, but then they go out and give Milan Lucic, Loui Eriksson and David Backes $6 million each per year.