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That will show him.You're not here to score goals.
Sent down to Laval.
He should get a couple more years on a two way deal without too much difficulty. He's a good contributor at the AHL level and he showed that he can be an injury call up on the big team and at least look decent playing jabroni minutes. You need to have a few of them around .
I doubt he's ahead of Dauphin or Evans.
Needs to show more to make the 4th line.
I would agree with you that Evans and Dauphin are ahead of him. But he's not too far from a 4th line role, either. He needs some more time in the AHL for sure.
I think it's over for Vedgy, he will stay in Sweden, with all the new contracts.
I agree Vedjemo is good depth, can play all three forwards positions, can play the PK and Jojo seems to like him. I hope he is back but doubt it.it's possible but I would think it's more likely he's back then not although I had started to wonder as he was terrible after being sent down to Laval at the end of the season. That said he was having a career year before the NHL call up so I don't see the harm in giving him another year to see what he can do although now the covid situation could change things for him as the Habs could give him his QO and retain his rights but if he opted to say play in the SHL vs not knowing if the AHL will have a season or not.
The other thing of course is the roster and what plans management has for it in the off-season. Currently we are at 34 contracts plus Domi and Mete we know will be signed so 36, leaving us with 10-12 spots open. With Domi we would have only 10 forwards for the Habs unless Kotka is there which would be 11. Laval badly needs some AHL vets at forward that can put points on the board in a big way. But even after that plus maybe a NHL backup, outside of trades there should be room for him on a 1 year deal.
wait, where was Vejdemo exactly during those last playoff?
Sweden
Which in my mind is a huge indicator of the Habs' current thinking regarding his future
I wouldn't read too much into that. The team had a limited amount of roster spots they can bring in the bubble.
The only Europeans that came were the ones that were in the line-up (Kotkaniemi, Armia, Lehkonen, and Tatar). And there was Folin who also came from Europe, and even though he didn't play, he is a player with NHL experience. And we know Romanov was there mainly because they wanted to help him get acclimated.
As for Vejdemo and Leskinen, they weren't going to bring them all the way from Europe, go through the quarantine, and attend camp when the Habs already knew they weren't going to bring them to Toronto. I'm sure if Vejdemo was in North America, he would have been at least at camp, even if he would be cut.