BAD NEWS FOR THE MONTREAL CANADIENS: KENT HUGHES HITS A MAJOR ROADBLOCK WITH CAREY PRICE TRADE

BAD NEWS FOR THE MONTREAL CANADIENS: KENT HUGHES HITS A MAJOR ROADBLOCK WITH CAREY PRICE TRADE

Man, this is frustrating. So, I like many of you, many of the collective Montreal Canadians fan base, we all thought that Terry Price would have been traded by now. Heading into September 1st, all the talk was, “Oh, once he gets that signing bonus, once he gets five and a half million bucks sent to his bank account, once all that goes down, then it’ll be easy to trade Carrie Price to whatever team needs a $10.5 million AAV deal to stay above the salary cap floor throughout the season and into the trade deadline period.” Okay, maybe I shouldn’t say easy. Maybe that’s not the right word, but it was a pretty reasonable thought for Canadians fans throughout most of August that okay, once September 1st hits, Carrie Price will get that bonus and then he’ll be traded. Well, it’s now September 2nd and even though we have not gotten ourselves a Carrie Price trade yet, this is becoming a bit of a roadblock for the Montreal Canadians and Kent Hughes. And to help us out with what’s going on here, we have to refer to a few articles and a few tweets. This is what Renaol Lavois posted yesterday in the evening about how Carrie Price absolutely must be traded. Okay, absolutely must be traded, but he’s still on the Habs right now. What gives? The article talks about how September 1st is now behind us. Carrie Price received his final signing bonus in the final hours and the former Canadians goender is $5.5 million richer. Now the path is clear for Kent Hughes to trade his contract. Except this trade won’t be as easy as some believe. The article goes out there and talks about how in years past we have seen teams like Arizona and Ottawa fighting to secure huge contracts from players who are no longer active due to injuries. The goal was to amass these contracts to meet payroll regulations, which also required teams to spend a minimum amount on salaries. These lucrative contracts were subsequently paid for approximately 80% by insurance, which allowed teams to circumvent the rules by placing these injured players on their roster while paying a fraction of the contract. Today, these contracts are no longer necessarily fashionable because owners are wealthier and more committed to the success of their teams, which means they all respect the current salary cap floor, which is 70.6 million. For Montreal, releasing Carrie Price’s contract before the start of the year is essential to give themselves flexibility to make a trade that would acquire a second center player. Serious discussions are likely to accelerate this week as NHL GMs meet in Detroit on Tuesday and Wednesday. In short, it’ll be a good time for Kent Hughes to move the talks forward. However, Renolvo writes, “With all the teams guaranteed to start the season within the salary cap, Kent Hughes is in a way in a weak position and will likely have to agree to give up a draft pick to the team that acquires Price. The other GMs have no intention of giving the Canadians anything anyway, and I wouldn’t be surprised if teams demand a second round pick from the Canadians to acquire Price’s contract. Kent Hughes will certainly not be inclined to give a second round pick. And that’s when the real negotiations begin. So essentially what’s being written about here is the fact that NHL teams around the league no longer have this big necessity like Arizona and Ottawa did a few years ago to get all these dead contracts and just stockpile them up on their team so they could be over the salary cap floor. You’re not seeing Marian Hosa and Pavl Datsuk and all those guys going over to Arizona like you have been in the past. And for Carrie Price, you can debate that for NHL GMs, this will be seen as more of a burden rather than something they would necessarily want. Now, yesterday we did speak about how for the San Jose Sharks, they do want to get some contracts signed and if they trade some guys away at the deadline, they might be under the salary cap floor, which is why carry prices 10.5 million bucks could be seen as a useful thing. But seems like other NHL teams do respect the floor and they are interested in at least remaining somewhat competitive, which does change the scene a little bit. But then you have what Renolvar writes about at the bottom, how some teams that are bad, like San Jose, they might want to make trades quickly because if they make trades and they send away their own players around the NHL, they can make their teams worse in the short term, which will make them worse in the standings, which could give them a higher chance at drafting Gavin McKenna, which of course is some 4D chess level thinking. And I think it’s something that a lot of these bad teams really need to think about because it brings value to Carrie Price’s deal all of a sudden. When you think about trading away your guys, Gavin McKenna is likely a franchise player and he’ll be the first pick next June. Teams that are having a difficult start to the season will make sure not to waste time and trade players with large deals. This is where a team worried about not reaching the floor could be very interested in Price’s contract, which occupies 10.5 million of the salary cap. But this conversation might not apply to right now. It might apply to later. So with the Canadians being in a spot where the rest of the NHL isn’t necessarily banging the door for Carrie Price’s deal, they’re in a pretty tough spot. But what if I told you that this conversation here that Lavois brings up from yesterday, this isn’t even it. There’s a bigger roadblock that the Montreal Canadians now face in the carry price trade conversation and it comes to us in the form of the new CBA rules. Puckedia posted about this earlier in the morning, but there are new changes to the LTIR. There’s a playoff cap, no deferred compensation, no paper loans, double retention restriction. There’s a full breakdown on Puckedia’s website as to the new CBA things that are going on here and you could go out there and read all of it yourself, but Marco Domo went out there and put this on Twitter an hour ago. With these new rules, it further adds to the belief that there could be trades earlier in the year, especially with the limitations on double salary retention. It makes being a salary cap broker a little less valuable than before, unless you plan it 2 months or more in advance. salary cap broker is like what the Montreal Canadians would do for example when let’s say David Sevard gets traded to another team but instead of going to the other team with 50% salary retained he would actually get traded to Montreal 50% salary retained and then the Habs would retain 50% of the remaining 50% therefore 25% of the total AAV and then he would get traded over to the new team at a 25% total cap hit compared to what he was making before so this isn’t really that crazy anymore. You can’t do this to the same effect as you had in previous years. Demo then writes here. And the lack of paper loans also means the Montreal Canadians basically have no choice but to move Carrie Price’s contract at this point. There’s no other mathematical way for them to get under the salary cap with LT and paper moves. Unless they went out there and traded a bunch of dudes, but do says that it’s not enough. So, Montreal has kind of lost a lot of their leverage here in the past few days thinking about Carrie Price’s contract. And I’m starting to believe that this guy might not actually get traded until well before the season begins. I mean, we’re at the beginning of September here. I think a lot of us thought that he would be traded by now, but he’s still in Montreal and the Habs have lost a lot of leverage. So, with all this in mind, I want you to let me know your thoughts in the comment section below. Even the folks on the RHAB subreddit are saying that all of these new pieces of info kind of sucks. It hurts Montreal’s leverage and they might need to use assets to give Price’s contract away. A reply says we were always going to have to use assets. There aren’t any teams in a position like Arizona was a few years ago. And unlike in the past, we aren’t in a position to take back a bad contract in exchange since that would defeat the purpose. Ltiring price would still work. I know it wouldn’t be ideal. The Habs would need to pay bonuses on next year’s cap. Please explain if I’m not understanding this correctly. You can’t LT during the off season. You can after the first game, but you still have to be compliant for that first game, which is the problem in and of itself because Carrie Price pushes the Canadians so far over the cap hit that unless they were to trade away a bunch of dudes, they can’t be cap compliant. They need to trade this guy. And with that in mind, they’ve lost some leverage. With all this in mind, let me know your thoughts in the comments section below about the carry price situation and what these new developments have in store for the Canadians. I hope you enjoyed this vic9 and bye.

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We’re going over the latest on Montreal Canadiens trade talk with Carey Price, and how the new NHL landscape and CBA rules are a roadblock.

Lavoie: https://www.tvasports.ca/2025/09/01/carey-doit-absolument-etre-echange

This video is taking place after the 2025 NHL Entry Draft, and after the 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs.

The 2025 NHL Draft 1st Round went as follows:

1st) New York Islanders, Matthew Schaefer
2nd) San Jose Sharks, Michael Misa
3rd) Chicago Blackhawks, Anton Frondell
4th) Utah Mammoth, Caleb Desnoyers
5th) Nashville Predators, Brady Martin
6th) Philadelphia Flyers, Porter Martone
7th) Boston Bruins, James Hagens
8th) Seattle Kraken, Jake O’Brien
9th) Buffalo Sabres, Radim Mrtka
10th) Anaheim Ducks, Roger McQueen
11th) Pittsburgh Penguins, Benjamin Kindel
12th) Philadelphia Flyers (from New York Rangers via Vancouver Canucks and Pittsburgh Penguins), Jack Nesbitt
13th) Detroit Red Wings, Carter Bear
14th) Columbus Blue Jackets, Jackson Smith
15th) Vancouver Canucks, Braeden Cootes
16th) New York Islanders (from Calgary Flames via Montreal Canadiens), Victor Eklund
17th) New York Islanders (from Montreal Canadiens), Kashawn Aitcheson
18th) Calgary Flames (from New Jersey Devils), Cole Reschny
19th) St. Louis Blues, Justin Carbonneau
20th) Columbus Blue Jackets (from Minnesota Wild), Pyotr Andreyanov
21st) Nashville Predators (from Ottawa Senators), Cameron Reid
22nd) Pittsburgh Penguins (from Colorado Avalanche via Philadelphia Flyers), Bill Zonnon
23rd) Ottawa Senators (from Tampa Bay Lightning via Nashville Predators), Logan Hensler
24th) Pittsburgh Penguins (from Los Angeles Kings), Will Horcoff
25th) Chicago Blackhawks (from Toronto Maple Leafs), Vaclav Nestrasil
26th) Nashville Predators (from Vegas Golden Knights via San Jose Sharks), Ryker Lee
27th) Washington Capitals, Lynden Lakovic
28th) Winnipeg Jets, Sascha Boumedienne
29th) Chicago Blackhawks (from Carolina Hurricanes), Mason West
30th) San Jose Sharks (from Dallas Stars), Joshua Ravensbergen
31st) Los Angeles Kings (from Edmonton Oilers via Philadelphia Flyers and Pittsburgh Penguins), Henry Brzustewicz
32nd) Calgary Flames (from Florida Panthers), Cullen Potter

This video is also taking place after 2025 NHL Season, and after the 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs, where the Florida Panthers defeated the Edmonton Oilers in the Finals.

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