Well, in other off-season news, another member of the Canadiens left yesterday. Jesperi Kotkaniemi agreed to an offer sheet for one year, $6.1M to the Hurricanes last week. Habs decided to not match and now Kotkaniemi is with the Canes. Habs gets the Canes' 1st round and 3rd round picks for not matching the offer sheet. In response, the Habs traded for Christian Dvorak of the Coyotes in exchange for a 1st and a 2nd with a lot of confusing conditions with those picks. After taking in that contract of $4.45M, the Habs are now over the cap by $6.7M, but Shea Weber will be on LTIR so they are set for the season.
Say what you want about the Habs, they still have 11 picks for the 2022 draft and they probably got a decent enough team to make it to the playoffs even with all of the losses they had to their roster. We'll see since the Atlantic looks to be a tough draw for them.