So by your logic, Hasek wasn't as good
I don't know if a fan of a team that hasn't won a playoff game in their entire existence should be talking about playoff performance. Maybe that's just me...
Non-Habs Fans, What would you do if you were the GM?
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So by your logic, Hasek wasn't as good
I don't know if a fan of a team that hasn't won a playoff game in their entire existence should be talking about playoff performance. Maybe that's just me...
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You must not be familiar with the career of Dominik Hasek. Just like Jonathan Quick, Hasek elevated his game in the playoffs. Hasek put the sabres on his back and carried them to the 1998-99 finals on the strength of a .939 SV% and 1.77 GAA. The Sabres leading point producer during that playoff run? Defenseman Jason Wooley with 15 points.
Three years later Hasek posts a .920 SV% and 1.86 GAA in the playoffs on route to backstopping the Red Wings to the cup, the first of two cups he won.
If I became GM of the Habs...
1. Full retention TDL trade of Plekanec for a 3rd, nobody's giving up more than that for him @ essentially $1M for the final 1/3rd of the season.
2. TDL trade Pacioretty to a contender looking for scoring help (looking at Nashville). 1st + a solid prospect.
3. At the draft, trade Galchenyuk to a team like San Jose who needs a young forward with potential. Can probably get their first depending on where it is.
4. After FA opens, trade Weber for a package of Moulson+Bogosian+2nd or Lehtera+MacDonald+2nd or the like. Similar to the Phaneuf trade, it's about getting out from under that contract. Take on a couple of another team's bad contracts that add up to more than Weber's cap hit and hopefully they're willing to take him on for 8 more years...
5. Wait until the end of July, pick up some bargain vets to fill out the roster. Hope they gain some value, trade them (and Byron) at the deadline for picks, even 6th/7th rounders help.
6. After July 1st, 2019, trade Price @ 25% retained ($7.875M cap hit) to a team in need of goaltending - NYI, CGY, BUF, etc. - it doesn't matter if they're in division or not. Getting max assets and moving the contract is the biggest part of this trade. The Habs are going to suck for a couple of years, it won't matter if he's a Sabre or a Golden Knight, as long as he's not a Hab at this point, because he'll be 32 at that point, and he's a barrier to rebuilding. 1st+2nd+good prospect (or a U23 player of equivalent value)
7. Repeat the process of signing bargain vets and upping their value before dumping them at the deadline for mid-round picks.
8. Do not sign any July 1 FAs until 2020 at the earliest. I also wouldn't be looking to add impact players unless they fall into my lap before the 2020 draft either. The process is about accumulating as much young talent as possible, getting the highest picks possible, and praying it works out. If you can move out Alzner and Shaw in meantime, you jump all over that as well. The only pieces I wouldn't really be looking to move are Drouin, Gallagher and Mete, and even then, none of them are untouchable. At this point, if I was the Habs GM, I'd really just burn it to the ground.
1. Full retention TDL trade of Plekanec for a 3rd, nobody's giving up more than that for him @ essentially $1M for the final 1/3rd of the season.
2. TDL trade Pacioretty to a contender looking for scoring help (looking at Nashville). 1st + a solid prospect.
3. At the draft, trade Galchenyuk to a team like San Jose who needs a young forward with potential. Can probably get their first depending on where it is.
4. After FA opens, trade Weber for a package of Moulson+Bogosian+2nd or Lehtera+MacDonald+2nd or the like. Similar to the Phaneuf trade, it's about getting out from under that contract. Take on a couple of another team's bad contracts that add up to more than Weber's cap hit and hopefully they're willing to take him on for 8 more years...
5. Wait until the end of July, pick up some bargain vets to fill out the roster. Hope they gain some value, trade them (and Byron) at the deadline for picks, even 6th/7th rounders help.
6. After July 1st, 2019, trade Price @ 25% retained ($7.875M cap hit) to a team in need of goaltending - NYI, CGY, BUF, etc. - it doesn't matter if they're in division or not. Getting max assets and moving the contract is the biggest part of this trade. The Habs are going to suck for a couple of years, it won't matter if he's a Sabre or a Golden Knight, as long as he's not a Hab at this point, because he'll be 32 at that point, and he's a barrier to rebuilding. 1st+2nd+good prospect (or a U23 player of equivalent value)
7. Repeat the process of signing bargain vets and upping their value before dumping them at the deadline for mid-round picks.
8. Do not sign any July 1 FAs until 2020 at the earliest. I also wouldn't be looking to add impact players unless they fall into my lap before the 2020 draft either. The process is about accumulating as much young talent as possible, getting the highest picks possible, and praying it works out. If you can move out Alzner and Shaw in meantime, you jump all over that as well. The only pieces I wouldn't really be looking to move are Drouin, Gallagher and Mete, and even then, none of them are untouchable. At this point, if I was the Habs GM, I'd really just burn it to the ground.
What a friggin mess. To be a fly on the wall during the Radulov and Markov negotiations, still can't believe we lost both.
lanceuppercut75
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As someone else pointed out, David Clarkson was traded. It might be easier in the offseason, before July 1st, but it can be done.
Trade Weber. I think it might be possible after this season when his actual salary plummets. Might be a few teams that aren't anywhere near the cap that would be willing to take him on, especially if the Habs retain a couple million.
Do everything possible to try to sign Tavares. A true #1 C would cure a lot of problems for the Habs.
A tear-down and true rebuild just doesn't seem feasible in Montreal, and especially not with Price signed for another 8 seasons.
Do everything possible to try to sign Tavares. A true #1 C would cure a lot of problems for the Habs.
A tear-down and true rebuild just doesn't seem feasible in Montreal, and especially not with Price signed for another 8 seasons.
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Clarkson is very different from Price and Weber in that Clarkson was already on the verge of being permanently placed on LTIR.
Weber and Price can still play and probably will for the next 3-5 years. Also, Weber has a recapture penalty which Clarkson doesn't have.
I would compare them instead to the Sedins. Vancouver is handcuffed to the Sedin twins. It can't really move them and it can't truly rebuild until they're gone, so Vancouver is kind of stuck waiting for them to retire.
