You really don’t know? Your hope is to sign one player. My plan is to sell everyone over 25 except Price and get prospects and draft picks. Tavares doesn’t fit in my plan because, to suck enough to fill your holes with elite players, you can’t have players that turn us into a middle team.
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You really don’t know? Your hope is to sign one player. My plan is to sell everyone over 25 except Price and get prospects and draft picks. Tavares doesn’t fit in my plan because, to suck enough to fill your holes with elite players, you can’t have players that turn us into a middle team.
We fill a hole foolishly dug on the left side, with the best prospect we've had in a long time.
Habs Halifax
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I would target Tavares and tell him we are going after another piece (sign Backlund or try to negotiate a sign/trade for McDonaugh).
- $80M Salary Cap
- Tavares at $12M for 7 years
- Backlund at $7M for 7 years or dangle Mete and Poehling and picks for McDonagh in a sign and trade ($7-$8M for 7 years)
- Trade Alzner and dangle Hudon to make the deal work.
- Trade Shaw for futures
Take your pick between Backlund or McDonagh but I think you can find a roster that looks good in either case when you add one of them as well as Tavares and Dahlin. Offloading Shaw and Alzner and a salary cap increase next year makes it all fit and with a bit of wiggle room.
Winning the draft Lottery and getting Dahlin could start a motion of events that turn our team around quick.
Habs Halifax
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Habs Halifax
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I think Dahlin could be a good fit with Weber. Weber's style would allow Dahlin to be aggressive. Similar to Chara/McAvoy
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Could you imagine if we lost both of our games over the weekend?? 1 point out of bottom 3.. Now we've made our lives difficult :/
Habs Halifax
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Max. It would be nice to get him at $5M - $6M but you will have to over pay for a UFA. Signing Tavares ($12M max) and Backlund ($7M max) is huge contracts but the only other contract we would have to negotiate would be Patch. All other core assets are locked up for several years and by the time Galchenyuk needs a new contract, the salary cap grows for 3 years. Deal with cap issues then.
The point was to show what kind of salaries we can fit in. We have lots of room to explore various free agents if circumstance works in our favor... Dahlin would be a kick start.
He's most probably a generational talent. Him playing with Weber would be the best thing imaginable for his development, if we get him. And Weber would finally get a well deserved 1st pairing talent, and yes, even at 18 years old.
And yes, he will make mistakes, but he'll learn, it's not like we have anything worthwhile on our left side anyway. (well, Mete is, he's 19 btw, and he's already better than every D in the lineup besides Petry, and nowhere near the same kind of talent as Dahlin)
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Dahlin is already playing big minutes in the swedish league against men.
He shouldnt have any problem playing in the top 4 next season
He shouldnt have any problem playing in the top 4 next season
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People didn't want to give Radulov his $ and term and now we are talking about giving Mikael Backlund 7m/per. lol
mariolemieux66
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Yeah nuts right!?
Bergevin had Radulov and he let him slip through his finger for whatever stupid reason he had. Radulov is worth 6.75mil that Bergevin should have offered/matched.
Adam Michaels
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For a 1st overall? Definitely. The Habs had a 19-year old 4th rounder start next to Weber and the kid didn't look out of place. There is very good reason to believe Dahlin could step in on the top pair and have success.
If you ask me, Dahlin and Mete sounds much more promising as your top two LD than Benn and Schlemko or Benn and Alzner or Schlemko and Alzner or Schlemko and Morrow, etc.
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There was an interview with Peter Forsberg in the Swedish news (Forsberg is going there to be an expert commentator in the Olympics). He said that Dahlin is a fantastic talent but he worried about all the media frenzy around him since this has never happened to a Swedish player before. Dahlin is on a training camp right now with the Olympics team and will fly to Korea tomorrow. He will play with a Swede that's playing in the KHL with a very hard shot.
On our team, sure. On a contender, he’d probably have to ripen up some more. That said, we got a 19 year old, while talented, isn’t near Dahlin’s level, who played first pair for a while with Weber and certainly didn’t hurt us.
Does this say more about the team or the player? I can see some debate there, but unless we overhaul our defense again this summer, Dahlin can certainly step right into our sorry mess and likely be in the top-4 right off the bat before training camp.
Will he be the solution? No, but it’s a step forward.
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Ensure the current management is no where near this rebuild and appoint the best available personnel. We would only be a few pieces from a competent team. Getting Dahlin though is the unlikely part in this equation.
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If we did somehow win the lottery, I'd definitely take Dahlin and pair him with Weber. Would be a great situation for all parties. Then you obviously do a full court press for Tavares. It's part of the reason I think we can afford to hold onto Pacioretty. He'd be a key asset in enticing JT.
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Why would this be? Who is Max Pacioretty to Tavares?
Instead we should deal Max and get a 1st and a C or LD prospect. There are wingers to be had as UFA, sign Neal or JVR or hell, tell JT we'll sign Josh Bailey as a package deal. UFA winger plus assets for Max > keeping Max into an uncertain UFA year. Max is a good player, of course but I don't see him as a guy that would sway an elite UFA to come here.
I don’t know what’s funnier, thinking we can still make the playoffs or that we can land Tavares. 
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