The Habs have so many questions they need to answer.
1. Price. It starts and ends with Price. If he's not one of the best goalies in the league, we won't go anywhere. So if he bounces back then we will be much better if he doesn't then we are f***ed. You can't have 10.5M tied up on a shitty player.
2. Weber. What will he be like? Slower?, or will the injury not impact him in any way?, will he be good for the 17-20 goals a year?
3. Offense from the blueline. Without Weber we had 25 goals from our blueline. 12 of those were from Petry, who if Weber is back will likely not put up that kind of production but still should be good for 25+ points hopefully. The questions marks are Reilly, Mete and Juulsen. I would put Reilly with Weber, since his defensive game is worse then Mete's so Weber would be able to help him while his mobility, passing would help Weber. Reilly put up 8 pts in 19 games with us, Mete 7 pts in 49 games.
Now having Reilly and Mete to go with Petry gives us more pucking moving and speed but aside from Weber/Petry the goals maybe hard to come by. We know we are stuck with Alzner. If Mete/Juulsen make the Habs then someone will need to be traded. They can send Benn to the AHL and he will barely cost anything against the cap. Schlemko would be a solid 7th D though.
4. If we got ROR and Stastny, it would greatly improve our center depth for sure. But they would need to trade a winger for him, first I would never give up a top 5 pick for him not with all the question marks it's too risky. It's got to be Pac, Drouin or Galchenyuk. As you have 2 of Pac, Drouin, Galchenyuk then you have Gallagher, Hudon, Lehkonen, Byron and Scherbak that should all be in the top 9. Plus Shaw who you could put on the 4th line.