Proposal: HABS gone UFA MAD!!

[Toronto makebeleifs]

The secondary players past Tavares as well as defence (arguably) in long island are better than That mtl lineup. They were good enough to miss the playoffs and still end up out of the top 10 picks in the 1st rd. Your great determining factor (and will be for a long while) is Carey price. If he has a vesina quality season, that team might squeak in. If he's average mtl is a bottom 5 team. The only thing that would stop this team from being last is Ottawa actively trying to be worse (and they're doing a really good job at that). Sorry man, only way to get out of this is to do a proper tear down and rebuild. I don't think bergevin has the ability to properly butter toast, so mtl is in for a long few seasons.