Looking like another season for the Canadiens with lots of salary cap space
Pat Hickey of the Montreal Gazette: The Montreal Canadiens didn’t spend close to the salary cap last season, and it’s looking like they will enter this season with over $8 million in salary cap space.
The Canadiens aren’t a “penny-pinching, bargain-basement team” that doesn’t want to spend. They’ve been a cap team before, and at times handed out contracts that were too big.
Last offseason the Canadiens tried to spend on Alexander Radulov and Andrei Markov, and this offseason they were interested in John Tavares and Paul Stastny.