Montreal Canadiens 20 Best Contracts in the Salary Cap Era
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Most of the success Montreal has enjoyed in the salary cap era came on the shoulders of MVP goaltender Carey Price (who briefly took a backseat to a short but magical Jaroslav Halak run), and that is reflected on their best contracts list. When you get world class goaltending, that can go a long way to covering up mistakes. Some of their biggest wins at the negotiating table came from squeezing young RFA players into low-ball short-term bridge deals, and struggled mightily on the UFA market in July. You can read all about that on their worst contracts list. You won’t find many summer UFAs on this list, and most were extensions to existing players who never reached the open market.
Montreal Canadiens 20 Best Contracts in the Salary Cap Era
Montreal Canadiens 20 Best Contracts in the…
Montreal Canadiens 20 Best Contracts in the Salary Cap Era
Most of the success Montreal has enjoyed in the salary cap era came on the shoulders of MVP goaltender Carey Price (who briefly took a backseat to a short but magical Jaroslav Halak run), and that is reflected on their best contracts list. When you get world class goaltending, that can go a long way to covering up mistakes. Some of their biggest wins at the negotiating table came from squeezing young RFA players into low-ball short-term bridge deals, and struggled mightily on the UFA market in July. You can read all about that on their worst contracts list. You won’t find many summer UFAs on this list, and most were extensions to existing players who never reached the open market.