The Montreal Canadiens have somewhat infamously been frugal when it comes to spending over the past three years. While many teams are pithing a million dollars of the maximum salary allowed, and a handful of teams become quite creative when it comes to salary bonuses, long-term injury reserve and call-ups and demotions to the minors, they Habs have been well short of the cap.
Looking ahead to next season, things could be very similar. They don’t have anyone with a huge payday coming this summer, aside from maybe Max Domi. Although, he cost himself a lot of money with his subpar season this year after coming blasting out of the gates in his first season with the Habs.