The Montreal Canadiens are in a bit of a pickle. They have two players locked into major contracts — Shea Weber is signed with a $7.8m cap hit and Carey Price is locked up at $10.5 cap hit until 2026.
The rest of the team? Looking like the 2014 Maple Leafs. So, what’s a team to do? They’re too deep into the #1D and goalie to do a full rebuild, and they can’t tank, or it’s almost $20 million wasted each season. They need a quick rebuild, and they’re going about it in a peculiar way: Signing and trading for the castoffs of the Maple Leafs.