Line Combos: 2021-22 lines

[That Habs Fan]

Time to start looking at next season.

Toffoli-Suzuki-Caufield
Lekhonen-Danault-Gallagher
_______-Kotkaniemi-Anderson
Byron-Evans-Perry
Poehling

_______-Weber
Edmundson-Petry
Kulak-Romanov
Fleury

Price
Allen

A couple of key holes to fill, hope we can find a way to eek into the playoffs with Tampa/Florida/Toronto/Boston in our division.

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[LyricalLyricist]

Drouin and/or his replacement need to be considered. He’s still under contract.

lehkonen rfa

 

[That Habs Fan]

Drouin and/or his replacement need to be considered. He’s still under contract.

lehkonen rfa

Oh yeah. Forgot about Lekhonen.

 

[Archijerej]

Oh yeah. Forgot about Lekhonen.

You also forgot about our leading goalscorer for some inexplicable reason.

Why are you having Romanov playing his off side? It's not like it worked well this season.

 

[psychonaut]

Where is Chariot?

 

[That Habs Fan]

You also forgot about our leading goalscorer for some inexplicable reason.

Why are you having Romanov playing his off side? It's not like it worked well this season.

LOL @ forgetting Toffoli...the moral of my OP is don't post while frustrated.

Also, just misusing Romanov like I think the org. will, ideally we upgrade Kulak with a RD and let Romanov play on his intended side.

Where is Chariot?

Seattle.

 

[Ezpz]

Drouin + Allen to Seattle. Only Perry and Danault signed. Room to add a big time winger. Filip Forsberg would be my target. Use the remaining space to get a real top 4 PMD. Bergevin needs to clearly define if we're going for it every year until Price turns to dust, or start his rebuild now. No more f***ing middle ground. If he'd added a real impact player at the deadline we're looking at a cup right now.

 

[Laurentide]

The entire roster needs to be gutted. This is the same garbage team we saw during the regular season. This fluke playoff run should count for nothing. Anyone over 30 needs to be dealt. Do a proper rebuild around 14, 22, 15 and 27.

 

[Clumsyhab]

I would like a big LW (someone like a Left handed version of Anderson) to play with Suzuki-Caufield and I’d put Toffoli with KK and Anderson.

 

[CoopersFalls]

KK is clutch but if he’s our 2nd line C next year, we’re in trouble. Too many tools, not enough execution. Short summer to make any meaningful gains.

 

[HabsWhiteKnightLOL]

We can't put Gallagher on a third line , this is absolutely useless and even less with Danault.
Idk what to say about that RW dillema. Someone between Anderson or Gallagher needs to go on the left side.

This is awful to have Anderson or Gallagher on a third line , Still wondering why did Bergevin extended Gallagher that fast.

 

[ottawa]

KK is clutch but if he’s our 2nd line C next year, we’re in trouble. Too many tools, not enough execution. Short summer to make any meaningful gains.

Give him players to play with and stick him at 2C all year...no more shuffling him through the entire lineup. We suck at developing prospects.

Also, play Romanov 82 games next year.

 

[Darkstorm]

Time to start looking at next season.

Toffoli-Suzuki-Caufield
Lekhonen-Danault-Gallagher
_______-Kotkaniemi-Anderson
Byron-Evans-Perry
Poehling

_______-Weber
Edmundson-Petry
Kulak-Romanov
Fleury

Price
Allen

A couple of key holes to fill, hope we can find a way to eek into the playoffs with Tampa/Florida/Toronto/Boston in our division.

Basically same team before Dead line day

 

[Darkstorm]

If I was Bergevin, I would go hard after either Dougie Hamilton or Seth Jones. Now that the Habs made the finals, they will be able to attract good players.

Jonathan Drouin - Nick Suzuki - Cole Caufield
Tyler Toffoli - Philip Danault - Brendan Gallagher
Joel Armia - Jesperi Kotkaniemi - Josh Anderson
Artturi Lehkonen - Jake Evans - Corey Perry

Dougie Hamilton/Seth Jones - Shea Weber
Alexander Romanov - Jeff Petty
Joel Edmundston - Brett Kulak/Cale Fleury

Carey Price

 

[Skip Bayless]

Give him players to play with and stick him at 2C all year...no more shuffling him through the entire lineup. We suck at developing prospects.

Also, play Romanov 82 games next year.

If you want him to play with top linemates and keep them all year, then your boy needs to produce and not make players around him worse.

If you want him to develop, send him to the AHL.

 

[frapp10]

Ideally

Toffoli Suzuki Caufield
X Kotkaniemi Anderson/Gallagher
Saad? Danault? Gallagher/Anderson
Armia Poehling/Evans Perry

X Weber
Edmundson Petry
Chariot Romanov

 

[PricerStopDaPuck]

This is all hypothetical and will be completely off but assuming chiarot is picked up by Seattle and Drouin is gone aswell as getting Byron off the books somehow I’d like to see:
Toffoli- Suzuki-Caufield
Jaden Schwartz(via fa)- Danault-Gallagher
Armia-KK-Anderson
Lehkonen-Evans-Perry
Schmidt(via trade)-Weber
Eddy-Petry
Romanov-no idea

 

[tinyzombies]

Anderson - Eichel - Caufield
Toffoli - Suzuki -Gallagher
Armia - Evans - Ylonen
Lehkonen - Poehling - Byron

Kulak - Hamilton
Edmundson - Petry
Chariot - Weber

Price
someone good

 

[DAChampion]

At least wait until after the playoffs are done.

 

[Alpine2013]

Toffoli - Suzuki - Caufield
Saad/Shwartz/Hyman - Kotkaniemi - Anderson
Lehkonen - Danault - Gallagher
Byron - Evans - Perry

Edmundson - Petry
Martinez/Chariot - Weber
Romanov - DeAngelo

Price
Allen

Hopefully we can work out a deal for Seattle to take Drouin, if not and they take Chariot I would go after Martinez to replace him. I think DeAngelo is worth a shot at a cheap/short reasonable contract.

Any one of Saad, Shwartz or Hyman to fill a badly needed spot on LW with the loss of Tatar and Drouin.

Let's say Drouin leaves we would have roughly 16M to spend so re-signing Danault (4 or 5) there's still plenty for a LW.

 

[tinyzombies]

2022-23:

(Danault?)

Anderson - Suzuki - Caufield
Toffoli - KK - Gallagher
Lehkonen - Evans - Byron?
Drouin? - Poehling - Ylonen
Mysak?

Norlinder - Weber?
Edmundson - Petry
Guhle - Romanov
Harris? Struble?

Price
Primeau​

 

[Archijerej]

Too many variables to predict, but I would be happy with something along the lines:

Anderson - Suzuki - Caufield
Killorn - Kotkaniemi - Toffoli
Lehkonen - Danault - Gallagher
Byron - Poehling - Evans
Perry

Lindholm - Weber
Edmundson - Petry
Romanov - a veteran RD
#7D - Fleury

Price
Allen

 

[Archijerej]

Oh, sorry. You meant 2022-23.

 

[Number 57]

UFA/Trade - Suzuki - Caufield
Toffoli - Kotkaniemi - Anderson
Lehkonen - Danault - Evans
Harvey-Pinard - Poehling - Gallagher

Romanov - Weber*
Guhle or Norlinder - Petry
Edmundson - Harris
Fleury/Brook

Price
Primeau

*Weber could be retired so we might need to acquire a new top-4 D by trade or free agency

 

[26Mats]

What I want to see in fall 2021:

Anderson-Suzuki-CC
[Hall/other ufa playmaker]-Kotkaniemi-Toffoli
Evans-Danault-Gallagher
[One of Lehk/Byron/Armia]-[Vet 4c]-Perry
[One more of Lehk/Byron/Armia as 13th forward]

Poehling, Teasdale, RHP, Ylonen developing In Laval, but also available as injury call ups.

[PP QB]-Weber
Edmundson-Petry
Romanov-Chiarot
[Kulak/Vet 7D]-Fleury

Price
Allen

Give Seattle a pick to take Drouin.

I have no clue about what will actually happen this fall, let alone next fall.