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Last season, Dadonov, 33, played 78 games with the Golden Knights and scored 43 points, including 20 goals.
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Stu Cowan • Montreal Gazette
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June 16, 2022 • 22 minutes ago • 3 minutes reading • 18 comments Shea Weber, 36, will only earn $ 6 million over the last four years of her front-loading contract. Its annual salary success will remain at $ 7.857 billion, but it is expected to remain in the long-term injury reserve. Photo by John Mahoney / Montreal Gazette
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It’s official: Shea Weber is no longer the captain of the Canadians.
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General Manager Kent Hughes announced Thursday afternoon that Weber had been traded to the Las Vegas Golden Knights in exchange for striker Evgenii Dadonov.
Weber has not played a game this season due to numerous injuries and is not expected to play again during the last four seasons of his 14-year, $ 110 million contract. But the Canadians never named a new captain as they ended up with the worst record in the NHL.
Weber, 36, will only earn $ 6 million over the last four years of his front-loading contract. Its annual salary success will remain at $ 7.857 billion, but it is expected to remain in the long-term injury reserve. Dadonov is entering the final season of his three-year, $ 15 million contract. The 33-year-old Russian had a 20-23-43 total in 78 games this season.
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With the future of goalkeeper Carey Price still uncertain due to a knee injury, Hughes did not want to risk entering next season with nearly $ 20 million in LTIR. Price, 34, has four seasons left on his eight-year, $ 84 million contract with an annual salary cap of $ 10.5 million.
Hughes said having both Price and Weber at LTIR would have limited their ability to spend money moving forward to improve the team.
“Our hope is that Carey will be able to play and, if that’s the case, great,” Hughes said. “If that were the case, then changing Shea’s contract might not have been so important to us, but we didn’t want to take that risk, and listen, we’re recovering a hockey player who we think can help our team.
“I think I’ve said from the beginning that everything we do – or try to do – we aim to try to put a team on the ice that can win continuously or sustainably and that everything we do will be first and foremost with this goal in mind, “added Hughes, who took over as general manager in January. “Therefore, when we do a trade like this, whether it limits us in the short term or not, it certainly benefits us from a long-term perspective, that is, years 2, 3 and 4, and I think that that was the most important thing for us. We look forward to more news in terms of changes here. “
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A change that will definitely come is a new captain next season, with Nick Suzuki and Brendan Gallagher being the main candidates for the job. Hughes is still listening to commercial offers for defender Jeff Petry, who has three seasons left on his contract with a salary cap of $ 6.25 million.
“We had a period of time where we could look at and evaluate and talk to the team players about who was growing and who has the leadership qualities and the maturity to take on that kind of role in a market like Montreal. “Hughes said about choosing a new captain.
Hughes called Weber Wednesday night in Kelowna, BC, to let him know that there would probably be a trade on Thursday, and he wanted him to hear the news first from him.
“We actually interrupted his son’s baseball game,” Hughes said. “I think he was training or something. He said, ‘Kent, can we call you?’
And with that call back, the Shea Weber era is officially over in Montreal.
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