26-27: A salary cap of $104 million (minimum) is planned

[content-ads] For a club like the Canadiens, for example, it’s really interesting.

Price’s contract, which is worth $10.5 million on the Habs’ payroll (and could be traded by then), is about to expire… and that’s going to leave Kent Hughes some room to maneuver. Especially in a context where the Habs GM will have three relatively important files – two in particular, in fact – on the table: that of Arber Xhekaj, that of Mike Matheson and that of Lane Hutson.

We know that Lane Hutson is likely to be on the chopping block after all, but knowing that the cap will rise considerably will also allow Kent Hughes to be more aggressive in his approaches.

The ultimate goal is well known: the GM of the Canadiens wants to improve his club’s ability to succeed on the ice, and when you look on PuckPedia and see that the Habs have a projected cap space of $37,696,667… it’s easy to see that things could get pretty shaky in Montreal.

[spacer title=’Overtime’] – Hehe.

– Hum.

– To be continued.

– Oh yeah?

– Interesting.