Earlier this week the Montreal Canadiens and Vegas Golden Knights struck a trade mainly for salary cap purposes. Vegas, long desperate to clear the $5.0 million cap hit of forward Evgenii Dadonov, finally traded him after trying to at the deadline to Montreal in exchange for the cap hit of the unofficially retired Shea Weber.
The addition of Dadonov means the Canadiens now have something of an imbalance with their salary structure with CapFriendly showing them having almost $44 million in contracts next year for forwards. That mark is fourth highest in the league for next season.