bsl
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You should know better DA.Our mediocrity is exposed because in the past week or two we have faced three of the toughest teams in the league: San Jose, Colorado, and St-Louis.
You should know better DA.Our mediocrity is exposed because in the past week or two we have faced three of the toughest teams in the league: San Jose, Colorado, and St-Louis.
This board is just too depressing sometimes with all of it's Chicken Littles. I'll come back after we've won 2-3 in a row and people here are positive again.
I honestly think things are going to be different now that we are done our Western Conference heavy schedule. The team survived the stretch still sitting in a playoff spot.
I think we do have a depth to make the team better. Beaulieu + 1st could fetch us a really good top 6 forward. The trouble is that we don't have a capspace because bergevin wasted it on dd&db.
We don't need another top pairing d-man, since we already have two of them. Also, i don't think top line center is must have, since we have 3 good to great 2nd line centers production-wise, and established top centers are impossible to get anyway.
We need some scoring depth on the wings to play three legitimate scoring lines, and a shutdown center to play on checking line with moen and prust.
Would that be one of the top five contenders in the league? Probably not yet, but if galchenyuk, eller and gallagher continue to progress it wouldn't be out of question even this year...
Habs are not in a playoff spot. Not that I care this year. Boo Hoo.
But Oh yes, I will care very much next year. Given that Price, Subby, Max, are prime, and Gally , Galch are ready, and Prust has 3 good years left.
Bergy, get your ass going and make some trades.
This is Bergy's summer. He blows it this year. **** of very much.
Hopefully the inexperienced GM is taking notes and learning from his mistakes.
I don't see how trading Beaulieu(plus a first) for a short term fix is smart on any level.
With the Habs situation, unless a stud prospect is coming back, the young players should be off limits.
Our mediocrity is exposed because in the past week or two we have faced three of the toughest teams in the league: San Jose, Colorado, and St-Louis.
Habs are not in a playoff spot. Not that I care this year. Boo Hoo.
I think we do have a depth to make the team better. Beaulieu + 1st could fetch us a really good top 6 forward. The trouble is that we don't have a capspace because bergevin wasted it on dd&db.
We don't need another top pairing d-man, since we already have two of them. Also, i don't think top line center is must have, since we have 3 good to great 2nd line centers production-wise, and established top centers are impossible to get anyway.
We need some scoring depth on the wings to play three legitimate scoring lines, and a shutdown center to play on checking line with moen and prust.
Would that be one of the top five contenders in the league? Probably not yet, but if galchenyuk, eller and gallagher continue to progress it wouldn't be out of question even this year...
aHHH In montreal, its always the same story.
Win 3 in a row and we are Stanley Cup Contender
Lose 3 in a row and we go bankrupt.
I think we do have a depth to make the team better. Beaulieu + 1st could fetch us a really good top 6 forward.
A Hockey News writer apparently said on the NHL network recently that we almost had a deal where we were sending Beaulieu and Plekanec for Bobby Ryan, but Ottawa trumped us when they agreed to add a first rounder to Silfverberg.
The idea of trading Beaulieu is not far-fetched but I don't think we need to give up a first round pick -- we could probably use an existing complementary asset.
Other reason a 1st round pick is not a good idea ... as the thread title suggests, we may just have an average team this year, so that 1st round pick could be a lot more valuable than last year in terms of drafting slot.
That rumor seems odd. Anaheim was over the cap with Ryan, so getting Plekanec wouldn't do much for them, they'd still have to shed salary.
As for not trading a 1st, if we were to get someone like Ryan then we would expect it to be a late 1st (20+).
Teams are routinely over the cap during the summer. There is a grace period by which they must shed salary in order to meet cap limits.
Not necessarily. I'd take the under on that. We have a nice core to build with -- just don't think we have the right mix at the moment and years of throwing away draft picks has narrowed the quality of players we could have been drawing from in Hamilton.
No one is talking about throwing away draft picks.
What exactly do you mean by "team"? As a whole, we have some glaring holes in the roster we ice every day. We can use some more size. We have deadweight in Desharnais and Briere. Murray and Bouillon aren't really NHL caliber defensemen anymore.
But simply taking a look at our core is enough to convince me that this is a playoff team, and a team that is on its way to being a consistent contender.
Galchenyuk, Gallagher, Patches, Eller, Plekanec, Bournival(still early but i like what he brings),
Subban, Markov, Emelin,
Price.
With Tinordi and Beaulieu coming up, our defense will look a lot better in a year or so.
I'd say we can use a couple better wingers in our core.
Once Galchenyuk shifts to center, Galchenyuk-Plek-Eller will pivot 3 solid lines.
And we have at worst a top5 goalie.
Where does this notion of "this is not a good team" come from?
Before the start of the season, I said this team was not very good. I was laughed at, told I was crazy...I was told that a team which finished 2nd the east in a shortened season (and subsequently demolished in the playoffs) could not possibly be bad and that we would obviously be even BETTER this year!
Well, here we are, an inconsistent team that has trouble scoring and a piss poor d-corps. To top it off we have a brutal coach, brutal specialty coaches and no team identity.
Are we a fast team? A skilled team? A tough team? A fighting team? A scoring team? A puck moving team? A defensive team?
I have no idea. I'm not able to say what this team's identity truly is. We aren't really good at any of that stuff.