The salary cap hasn’t been something the Montreal Canadiens have had to run up their ‘concern’ flag pole since Marc Bergevin has taken over. Despite the initial, and still lasting, push back from the Carey Price extension (eight years at $10.5 million per) the Habs, and their salary cap has been drastically better than other teams in the league.
In fact, they’ve been able to use their cap as a backhanded aid. The most recent example is the Joel Armia trade that saw the Montreal Canadiens acquire the 25-year-old as well as a 2019 seventh-round pick and a 2020 fourth-round pick only having to send Simon Bourque the other way.