It's confirmed for Kent Hughes: he has made a move and we have the details

It is true that things were somewhat better in terms of prospects, but clearly, it's day and night compared to the depth now.

His plan was precisely to build a very good long-term team through the draft, and also to free up salary cap space.

Marc Bergevin had offered monstrously bad contracts to players who didn't deliver, and Hughes managed to trade some of them.

There are still some that hurt, like Brendan Gallagher and Josh Anderson, but the Mike Hoffmans of this world have been gone for a long time, and other players like Joel Armia, Christian Dvorak, and David Savard will be leaving within a year.

With the moves he made and the patience he showed, the Canadiens' GM freed up space under the salary cap, enough to say that he succeeded.

That was his plan, and he never hid it. Along the way, he managed to accumulate several first-round picks and high-quality prospects. His work is worth gold for the future of the organization right now.

The Canadiens are currently one of the teams with the most space under the salary cap, and this is directly related to the culture established by the new management.

The contracts of Cole Caufield, Juraj Slafkovsky, and Samuel Montembeault, to name a few, are excellent and less lucrative than we thought.

It wouldn't be surprising if players like Kaiden Guhle and others follow suit and agree to long-term, lower-value deals to be part of the solution in Montreal.

We don't have superstar players like Auston Matthews or Mitch Marner in Toronto, but the culture is more focused on team success than on the players' paychecks.

Source: Gonordiques.com
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