...and if the Mighty HuGo strikes out, there will still be some joy in Mudville cuz it really won't cost much...
Speculation: Habs Interested in Colin White
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...and if the Mighty HuGo strikes out, there will still be some joy in Mudville cuz it really won't cost much...
Exactly... and Hughes knows him better than anyone (as a person, player and asset).
If we make him an offer, great. If he signs elsewhere, also great (means Hughes didn't want to match, he took less to play for a better team/personal preference destination or we didn't make the offer).
We have too many forwards, yes, but I suspect Dvorak, Hoffman, Dadonov, Drouin and probably Armia are all being shopped aggressively and 1-3 of them won't be here come pre-season.
a White type talent on a reclamation-type deal, playing for a GM he has a great relationship with/believes in him, is exactly the kind of additions we should be making this summer and next season to round out the roster as HuGo slowly and painstakingly undo the mess MB created
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White could become a good third line centerman with Habs. I don't think Habs management and coaching staff have high expectations about Evans or Poehling.
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Curious... what tells you that? (re. evans/poehling)
i don't recall hearing anything from MSL or HuGo indicating that.
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I think they like Evans a lot but might see him more as a 4C due to his durability.
I don't think they like Poehling and he's dumb as rocks so that makes sense.
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They never praised them either. Do you think Evans is a solid 3rd line center. I don't. Do you think Poehling has any real full time NHL potential ? I don't.
what you or I think isn't the point... you stated that you don't think management think highly of them and i simply wanted to know if that was based on anything tangible i might have missed... which it appears it wasn't. fair enough.
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I like White .The Sens are clueless.They let Paul walk and he was one of their best players all year.Tampa wasn't stupid.He was one of their best players in the playoffs and they have already resigned him
what you or I think about evans or poehling isn't the point... you stated that you don't think management think highly of them and i simply wanted to know if that was based on anything tangible i might have missed... which it appears it wasn't. fair enough.
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I think Poehling would do much better on wing. He's got speed, a bit of goal scoring, and likes to drive the net. I don't think he's a center.
MarkovsKnee
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They didn't let Paul walk. They traded him to TB.
I expect one or more of Petry/Hoffman/Anderson/Drouin/Byron to be gone relatively soon, so we should have money for everyone.
MarkovsKnee
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Let's hope so, although less so for Anderson.
One of Drouin/Hoffman has to go, and MSL didn't seem to hate Hoffman unlike the majority of this board. He played him & gave him PP time.
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St Lous was paying Poehling very few minutes . Is that a sign ?
But he thinks he is. That's the problem with him.
...maybe Poehling was actually actively hurting the Tank??...
...or maybe it's just because he isn't all that great...
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This....maybe Poehling was actually actively hurting the Tank??...
...or maybe it's just because he isn't all that great...
And they got Mathieu Joseph who produced 2 less points in 11 less games this year and is 2 years younger (plus a 4th round pick). The difference is that Joseph will probably end up costing more eventually while Paul is now signed to an affordable/tradeable contract for most of his useful career.
Paul is also a bigger guy so there's that.
I would be flabbergasted if Hughes doesn't do a trade including players by July 13. Still expecting at least one on Thursday/Friday.
He wants to be active on the FA market, but he said the current cap was an issue. Either he trades several pieces or he'll have to be bargain binning comes FA day (in addition to playing it hard with Romanov/Pitlick).
MarkovsKnee
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I haven't seen anything about Poehling demanding to play center, but he's definitely someone I would throw in a trade if we need to move someone out.
Like Drouin & Poehling to Arizona for a 2023 3rd round draft pick.
meh... marginal difference from before/after Gorton took over, ditto MSL... and he missed almost 3 weeks due to injury in march/april and played sparingly in his first week back before finishing the year in the 12-14min range he was used most of the year.
pretty thin to extrapolate anything from that imo
(& i'm not particularly high on Poehling, just haven't seen anything to suggest HuGo or MSL have low opinion/expectation of him)
MarkovsKnee
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The 3rd would be for Poehling. They have 3 next year, so it would be the worst one.
