Habs Halifax
Loyal Habs Fan
You can make a deal to make sure it is a player you want by trading additional players.
But if you really want to make sure you don't lose Juulsen or Lehkonen, you have to protect them. By the way, I protect Lehkonen in every scenario possible, and will take chances with higher salaried players who are not producing to their cap hit.
And I would only risk Juulsen if Weber and Petry were still studly, Fleury or Brook was ready to be the 3RD...... AND Mete were better than Juulsen. But if all that happens, the loss would be minimal anyway.
I think we are tracking for another re-set in 2021 to be honest.
- Gallagher, Petry, Tatar, Danault as pending UFA's
- Kotkaniemi needs a new contract
- Weber turns 36 the following season and his contract is designed for him to retire at age 36 or 37.
- Bergevin's contract is done after the 20/21 season.
* I''m a huge Weber fan but I'm not sure about him at age 36 and 37. Protecting him for 2 more years when he is 35+ over either Mete, Juulsen or Fleury might not be a smart move.
* We get to try to win in the next 2.5 years and then we see what we have at the end of the 20/21 season.
* We get to see how good our young core is (Domi, Drouin, Lehkonen, Armia, Mete, Juulsen, Fleury, Evans, Lindgren)
* We also get to see how good our prospects are (Romanov, Poehling, Brook, Suzuki, Primeau, Ylonen, Ikonen, etc)
Maybe we are smart (or lucky) and we have another off year in 20/21. Imagine what we can get for Weber, Petry, Gallagher, Danault, Tatar as pending UFA's at the 21 deadline?