Rumor: Kevin Weekes Reports Allen Could Be Signed to Multi-Year Deal

[Adam Michaels]

Since Weekes is making it seem like a big deal, I decided to start its own thread. Mods can choose to delete it if they want to.

At 4:30 this afternoon, Weekes tweeted this:



Then he tweeted a picture of the city of Montreal:



Then tweeted a picture of an empty net at the Bell Center:




Then tweeted this:

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[Legend123]

Montemblows traded to Russia for a bulletproof tank

 

[The Great Weal]

Would be pretty damn silly to have two tweets like that to announce a 3rd string goalie. Might be a bigger move but you have to think that we would have delayed the press conference today if that was the case.

 

[Kairi Zaide]

Montemblows traded to Russia for a bulletproof tank

I don't think trading a tank commander for a tank is a good idea

 

[Adam Michaels]

Would be pretty damn silly to have two tweets like that to announce a 3rd string goalie. Might be a bigger move but you have to think that we would have delayed the press conference today if that was the case.

Hughes is getting comfortable in front of the press now, so he likes having multiple pressers to talk.

 

[McGuires Corndog]

Maybe Price’s contract is being moved out.

Would explain the empty net tweet

 

[The Great Weal]

It's Allen extension lol

 

[Big Empty]

 

[Vachon23]

All this for that

 

[The Great Weal]

We don't really have much in the pipeline for goaltending so I understand the reasoning behind keeping Allen. Just don't know why it's happening now instead of waiting until the deadline. That's not to say that he definitely won't get traded although it's unlikely at this point.

 

[the]

Now why would we want to extend Allen? Can’t we find a better starter than him?

 

[Adam Michaels]

Now why would we want to extend Allen? Can’t we find a better starter than him?

That's the goal for the moment. We don't need a better starter.

 

[frapp10]

Allen’s next contract will start when he’s 33. 2 years max and hopefully he won’t regress. In that time we will need to find a legit starter for the future

 

[sheed36]

Well damn. I just posted a few minutes ago in the trade thread wondering if maybe the Habs might be considering extending Allen and when I came back to the main page this thread was here.

 

[Adam Michaels]

Jake Allen: 5 years @ $10.5M AAV

 

[The Great Weal]

That's the goal for the moment. We don't need a better starter.

I'd rather have a worse starter. Allen is a luxury stop-gap in my opinion.

 

[calder candidate]

Why would we sign him? He will be very valuable with 50% at the TDL and he can’t possibly be the solution mid/long term…

 

[McGuires Corndog]

Jake Allen: 5 years @ $10.5M AAV

GTFO.

I can’t handle any more overpaid goalie trauma.

 

[Adam Michaels]

I'd rather have a worse starter. Allen is a luxury stop-gap in my opinion.

I'm good with Allen and Monty. Both compete hard and care, but they don't do a good enough job to win you games. With this tandem last year, Habs still finished last.

 

[sheed36]

Clicked on the Weekes tweet to read the comments and saw a video under the tweet of a guy walking a bird on a leash and now my day is complete, so thanks for posting this thread AM.

 

[OnTheRun]

Someone really need to explain this emoji thing to Kevin Weekes. "Keep an eye :eyeemoji: on" is redundant, either type "eye" or use the eye emoji not both, Kevin.

 

[McGuires Corndog]

Why would we sign him? He will be very valuable with 50% at the TDL and he can’t possibly be the solution mid/long term…

He could be very well liked in the locker room, especially with the young core. That alone may factor in keeping him around.

Him for another 2-3 years or a slightly better goalie that may or may not jive with our players? Stick to what you know and expect, we’re not exactly in a position to contend.

 

[The Great Weal]

I'm good with Allen and Monty. Both compete hard and care, but they don't do a good enough job to win you games. With this tandem last year, Habs still finished last.

Allen was great for us and singlehandedly got us points in the standings. If it weren't for injuries (such as the time Petry tried to kill him by pushing Larkin into him) we would have had a couple more wins. The defense is still atrocious so I don't see us being outside the bottom 5 anyways, but I feel like we could have got a nice asset with him retained at 50% and we got another stop-gap instead.

 

[McGuires Corndog]

Clicked on the Weekes tweet to read the comments and saw a video under the tweet of a guy walking a bird on a lease and now my day is complete, so thanks for posting this thread AM.

It was the “man that’s legit” at the end that got me rolling.

That’s f***ing hilarious

 

[Adam Michaels]

Why would we sign him? He will be very valuable with 50% at the TDL and he can’t possibly be the solution mid/long term…

You can retain on 3 contracts max. With Drouin, Dadonov, Monahan & Byron in their final years, the Habs will only be able to retain on 3 of them. If you add Allen to that list, it would leave you with 5 players, so two of them would have to be traded without retention. And unfortunately, the goalie market doesn't always net you the best return.