Speculation: Montreal is now clearly a seller
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Good luck with that. In the meantime the Habs don’t have a credible back up goalie. You do kno Primeau is in the minors. Let me guess next year , give me a yep for that.
You are not considering they could call out the name best player available and follow a plan. Yes it would be a strategy deviation to have an honest assessment of your talent and follow a plan. Not sure Habs have a plan or that they just can’t execute. Probably both. God knows a free agent of any stature won’t go there Due to jackass media and fanbase
Max is worth a first. If you believe you can sign him in the $6.0m to $6.5m range you don’t trade him
You will get a 4th back with retention. There is a reason he was a Buffalo healthy scratch
Each year bergivin looks to get a #1c. This year there is no Duchene or o’riely. The team has no 1c. Best move is to max value on Tatar and Petry and use the assets to draft and develop a 1c.
Their is no Free agent replacement. Nothing close unless you think Tyson Barrie , muzzin or peiterangeo will sign in Montreal
I can’t agree here. We have fleury and Romanov and Chicago drafts beaudin and Boqvist and trades Jokiharju for Nylander. Forwards include dach and trade for strome; basically two 6’3” plus 200 lbs centres. Miles beyond Montreal.
Nylander is 21 years old playing regularly and contributing. Personally I would have kept Jokiharju
Good luck. I wish Petry type of Ds grew on trees and were available cheap in FA every offseason.
Habs Halifax
Loyal Habs Fan
Domi is worth substantially more than a 1st but it greatly depends on what that 1st is? He is a guaranteed NHL asset at 24 and under RFA control for two more years. He's getting paid more than $6.5M. More like $7M - $8M range. Habs can sign him to one more bridge year if we want to as well. Seems like his point production ability is 55-75 range and hard to nail down. I think he will ask to be paid as a 70 pts guy.
Nylander contract and a bit more. Maybe 6 years at $7.5M?
Habs Halifax
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Habs Halifax
Loyal Habs Fan
Habs have more than just Fleury and Romanov. Count how many guys made the WJC for both teams in the last 3 years. Habs have substantially more. And if you want to include Strome who was drafted before 2017, we can include both Domi and Drouin as well for trades. Caufield, Primeau, Suzuki, Harris, Norlinder, Ylonen, Oloffsson give the Habs the edge no doubt.
- Kotkaniemi = Dach
- Romanov = Boqvist
- Brook = Beaudin
- Fleury = Jokiharju/Nylander
- Hillis = Wise
- Struble = Vlasic
- Fonstad = Teply
- Domi > Strome
- Drouin/Sergachev vs ????
- Caufield > ????
- Suzuki > ????
- Primeau > ????
- Harris > ????
- Norlinder vs ????
- Ylonen vs ????
- Olofsson vs ????
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Petry is leaving anyways...there is no way Montreal resigns Petry to a 4-5 year contract extension ...he will turn 34 the first year of his new contract....what is the point of keeping Petry for a year and letting him walk for nothing.
Are you really counting guys like Armia and Lehkonen as "core" guys?
Domi is an RFA this year who's price tag is going to go up significantly. Gallagher and Danault are UFA's after next season so there price tag is about to go up significantly. Nice pieces but looking at other top forwards in just the Atlantic and they simply don't measure up to what Boston, Florida, Toronto or Tampa (all teams that were in a playoff spot at some point in the last week). They've got a lot of work to accomplish before they'd potentially be a good team as they are missing most of the hardest to find pieces of what would be a "core" on a contending team.
Price and Weber are core guys who's contracts are going to be anchors by the time this team could potentially be competitive again. Any gains by the youngsters will come with the aging of #1 Dmen Weber, # 1 goalie Price.
Also consider #2 Dman Petry who's 32 and leading scorer Tatar (29) are UFA's after next year. They really need to take a step back and look to acquire futures for these guys. It will mean pain this year and next but getting futures to build around is far more important then not making the playoffs. Also bottoming out to get a top pick this year and next to hopefully get that top end talent is the best direction for this team.
I was referring to the guy saying that Montreal had no real good young pieces.
Also, can we all agree that our core in the near future is going to consist of Domi, Drouin, Kotkaniemi, Suzuki, Price, Gallagher, Weber and (maybe) Mete and Romanov?
We got elite pieces - Kotkaniemi, Suzuki, Caufield coming up with Romanov/Primeau as outside chances. We’re not in a bad position. We just need time to let the young guys with elite talent we recently drafted to mature a little bit.
I also do believe that with the depth we have, we are good enough to be a playoff team right now even though it’s getting late.
Archijerej
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Marco Scandella has played in 172 out of 204 possible games during his time with the Sabres. He played in 31 out of 40 games this season alone. On average, it's 70 games a season. How on earth does that indicate a #8 defenceman?
Archijerej
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interesting too see the potential #1 overall is french-canadian and Montreal doesn't tank lol
You honestly think anyone could be worse than the Red Wings...
Benstheman
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There seems to be a natural fit between Habs and Vegas concerning Petry.
1st + Dorofeyev??
Hague + 2nd?
1st + Dorofeyev??
Hague + 2nd?
