Suzuki has to produce first. You deal with that in 2 more years. And I have the cap jumping forward by a lot in 3 years time. Very aggressive move by the Habs yes but it's the right time. Price and Weber still around... young core on ELC/bridge deals.
You keep pretending that we have thrown an extra $3.5M out the window when we had 3 seasons in a row with $5M out the window. Your conservative approach will get the Habs nowhere but another season with $5M+ of cap space. Please don't tell me you think Hall will sign?
Dude you've literally been saying "Hall to Montreal" in almost everyone of your posts all season long lol. Why are you being so hypocritical about that now? No I don't think we will sign Hall and i don't particularly want to either - I've never been that high on him. You're the one whose been saying Hall to Montreal non-stop.
If you want to be aggressive and make use of cap space, let's do it. Let's acquire an extra 1st round pick by virtue of a 1 year cap dump from a team that's strapped. Or let's trade one of Domi/Tatar/Danault/Gallagher in return for a player we can sign long term. Or - yes - let's look at the UFA market and see if anyone is worthy of either a short-term or long-term deal where we overpay (not the strongest crop this year, but there are some good targets).
There's a lot of things we can do with cap space.
If you absolutely want to throw millions upon millions at an RFA more than they're worth - at
least target one of the better ones. Such as Barzal, Dubois or even Sergachev.
Personally - i'd be fine taking a cap dump for picks this year - and then try to go super aggressive after RFAs of UFA's next year. Will be a much stronger crop of players. EP, Hughes, Dahlin, Makar, Heisk, etc. I'd pay 4 1st round picks and a crazy high offer sheet for a player that caliber.
I don't want to pay 9.5M$ to a 48 point winger lol. That's insane.