HF Habs: Expansion Draft 2021 Thread: Price Waives NMC edition
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Whitesnake
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Nick Deslauriers is protected. Would love to have a 4th line filled with him and William Carrier.
i like that Armia is protected... hopefully that suggests they aren't far on getting a solid extension done.
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As others have mentioned, maybe Price asked to be left unprotected for the possibility of heading back home. He probably figures that both options are good for him and his family.
A) He stays in Montreal when he's lived the past 14-15 years
B) He heads back home to be closer to his and his wife's family.
Win/Win for him.
A) He stays in Montreal when he's lived the past 14-15 years
B) He heads back home to be closer to his and his wife's family.
Win/Win for him.
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And a month ago y’all were like “he’s protecting price and Weber” and we’re going to get f***ed in the expansion draft. Well lookie here, y’all didn’t know bergy can play same 4D chess himself. Y’all thought he was slower than cream rising on the buttermilk
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If Seattle grabs Price or Weber we end up with solid cap space in a flat cap world where there are lots of opportunities to put it to good use. We also managed to protect Allen & Chiarot as a result. Got to score Bergevin an A+ for the way he's playing this one.
Exposing Drouin is likely a sign that Bergevin is worried about his future or he's banking that Seattle will be scared off by lack of info on what's troubling him. Interesting risk, especially with an extra slot available that we used on Armia. Too hard to judge because we don't know what's really happening with Drouin.
Protecting Armia is a head-scratcher. Could we not have grabbed a 7th forward this week and added him to our protected list? He must have full confidence that he can re-sign Armia to a favourable deal - but you also got to think that Armia just gained some bargaining power. If you're expecting Drouin to bounce back shouldn't he have been protected over Armia? Armia over Danault - does that mean Bergevin has less confidence of our chances of signing Danault or is a deal already in place? Things that make you go hmmmm?
The rest of our availables are pretty straight-forward:
Brandon Baddock (F)
Joseph Blandisi (F)
Paul Byron (F)
Phillip Danault (F)
Laurent Dauphin (F)
Jonathan Drouin (F)
Michael Frolik (F)
Charles Hudon (F)
Corey Perry (F)
Michael Pezzetta (F)
Eric Staal (F)
Tomas Tatar (F)
Lukas Vejdemo (F)
Jordan Weal (F)
Cale Fleury (D)
Erik Gustafsson (D)
Brett Kulak (D)
Jon Merrill (D)
Gustav Olofsson (D)
Xavier Ouellet (D)
Shea Weber (D)
Charlie Lindgren (G)
Michael McNiven (G)
Carey Price (G)
Exposing Drouin is likely a sign that Bergevin is worried about his future or he's banking that Seattle will be scared off by lack of info on what's troubling him. Interesting risk, especially with an extra slot available that we used on Armia. Too hard to judge because we don't know what's really happening with Drouin.
Protecting Armia is a head-scratcher. Could we not have grabbed a 7th forward this week and added him to our protected list? He must have full confidence that he can re-sign Armia to a favourable deal - but you also got to think that Armia just gained some bargaining power. If you're expecting Drouin to bounce back shouldn't he have been protected over Armia? Armia over Danault - does that mean Bergevin has less confidence of our chances of signing Danault or is a deal already in place? Things that make you go hmmmm?
The rest of our availables are pretty straight-forward:
Brandon Baddock (F)
Joseph Blandisi (F)
Paul Byron (F)
Phillip Danault (F)
Laurent Dauphin (F)
Jonathan Drouin (F)
Michael Frolik (F)
Charles Hudon (F)
Corey Perry (F)
Michael Pezzetta (F)
Eric Staal (F)
Tomas Tatar (F)
Lukas Vejdemo (F)
Jordan Weal (F)
Cale Fleury (D)
Erik Gustafsson (D)
Brett Kulak (D)
Jon Merrill (D)
Gustav Olofsson (D)
Xavier Ouellet (D)
Shea Weber (D)
Charlie Lindgren (G)
Michael McNiven (G)
Carey Price (G)
Is it possible that Seattle has a deal in place for Montreal to leave Price unprotected? Maybe Seattle added draft picks/unprotected players from other teams as part of this deal? For a GM who has stated he believes in building a team from the crease out, leaving Price unprotected is perplexing.
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There are no side deals this time, GMs have learned and are now gangbanging Francis
Everyone sees all these high cap hit players and is getting excited but then forgetting they dunk on Toronto all the time for there shitty cap situation. The GM’s learned
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No, I mean where Seattle paid Montreal to leave Price unprotected. I thought I heard that deals with Seattle will not be announced until Wednesday?
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Vast majority of players exposed are $6M+, how is Francis going to build a 23-man roster if he takes a $10.5M cap hit goalie?
Price is going nowhere, and Habs get to keep Allen...which is what this paper exercise was all about
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Seattle is not going to chose Price and his contract when there are tons of solid goalies available for half the cap hit or less and if they do, they’re doing our franchise a huge favour (no disrespect to Carey Price the player).
They would be much better off taking a chance on other big contracts that have been left exposed like Jake Voracek or PK Subban.
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