Salary Cap: Buyout Hoffman: Yes or No

[ryan callahan]

If you want to tank, no. If you want to take the next step, yes. He's a poison, just like Drouin and Dvorak.

 

[Habs13]

There is no plan possible to contend next year. The team lack many pieces and even if you add Dubois they will be a bubble team at best. You won't be able to get McDavid or any superstar player that can lift the whole team to the playoff. The plan is to develop the young player and be more competitive.

And how do you do that with Hoffman floating about in a spot that a kid should occupy?

 

[JeffreyLFC]

And how do you do that with Hoffman floating about in a spot that a kid should occupy?

Demote him?

Why people make it so hard for an easy/obvious decision?

 

[Habs13]

Demote him?

Why people make it so hard for an easy/obvious decision?

Then he takes a spot from a kid that should be developing in Laval.

 

[JeffreyLFC]

Then he takes a spot from a kid that should be developing in Laval.

So what? He is out in a year. Nobody is forcing the coach to play him too.

He has ONE year left. You do not buy him out UNLESS you need every penny of the cap.
I would rather save the cap space for 2024 and the loaded free agent class.

 

[Naslundforever]

Y resse le moins poche dé poches pareil, tsé... Y’en ont encore pleins de poches.

Don’t try and google translate that one folk. I just have him somehow floating at the top of the pile of deadwood kinda dangling there.

 

[Naslundforever]

Then he takes a spot from a kid that should be developing in Laval.

Ooooor gives a kid someone he needs to play out of a spot on the power play or something which we used to say was a good thing?