Speculation: Noah Juulsen on waivers?

[Goal Caufield50]

Another wasted 1st round pick.

Injuries have derailed his career. Pick was ok just bad luck in my opinion.

 

[Goal Caufield50]

Annnnd he's officially on waivers. I can't wait for him not to be claimed and this thread to end. This guy is just not an NHL talent at this point in his career.

I believe he has the talent but needs to play. Juulsen has to beat kulak, mete, flurey, brook, gulue and Romanov for a roster spot. Spots will open up due to cap, trades, retirement and expansion. Longer shots have made it.

 

[MisterT]

Should slide through waivers

 

[JuJu Mobb]

Injuries have derailed his career. Pick was ok just bad luck in my opinion.

I understand the context, but it still adds to our 1st round woes.

 

[FedorTyutin]

I understand the context, but it still adds to our 1st round woes.

What do you mean?

Leblanc has a prolific career.
Tinordi was among the Norris trophy nominees.
Beaulieu has a record of time played in a season in PP.
McCarron is a proven leader.
Scherbak could win the Calder this year.

 

[Treb]

Because Anaheim is light on defense but a new report has just came out that the Ducks may sign Ben Hutton to a PTO so it’s unlikely Anaheim would put a claim in on Noah Juulsen now.

They would have kept Djoos instead of waiving him and claiming Juulsen. Djoos is more proven at the NHL level.

 

[CoopersFalls]

I think he still has #4 D potential. Hoping he squeaks through and has a big year for Laval.

 

[Legend123]

Injuries have derailed his career. Pick was ok just bad luck in my opinion.

it was always gonne be a terrible pick when just a few slots later Aho was selected by the Canes. But yeah he was pretty solid, as a rookie no less, prior to his near career ending injury

 

[Moose Head]

it was always gonne be a terrible pick when just a few slots later Aho was selected by the Canes. But yeah he was pretty solid, as a rookie no less, prior to his near career ending injury

Every team passed on Aho at least once.

 

[Just Linda]

Every team passed on Aho at least once.

Calgary, Nashville, NYR, LA, Pittsburgh, and St Louis disagree with you on that :p

 

[HuGo Sham]

i see him (maybe) getting claimed by the jets

 

[Jeune Poulet]

He's awful.

At this point, the mild interest and praise he gets is based on his draft status. Like McCarron and Tinordi before him.

 

[BatVader]

i see him (maybe) getting claimed by the jets

Don’t really see that happening. In a normal season, without a pandemic cap crunch, I’d be all for it, but now.... no thanks

 

[Moose Head]

Calgary, Nashville, NYR, LA, Pittsburgh, and St Louis disagree with you on that :p

They all could have traded up to get him at where he was drafted. Getting an early 2nd isnt that difficult especially if you know you’ll get a star out of it. So yes, none thought he’d be the player he’s become. Every team screwed up on his evaluation, not just the Habs.

 

[biturbo19]

It would be foolish for another team not to take that risk. If he gets healthy he could become a good 2nd pairing D-man
If he doesn't A 700 thousand $ gamble for one season. I hope he doesn't get claimed .It's only 125.000 for us on his 2 way contract.

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The Montreal Canadiens signed defenceman Noah Juulsen to a one-year, two-way contract extension on Thursday. Juulsen will earn $700,000 in the NHL under the new deal and $125,000 in the AHL. The 23-year-old had three assists in 13 games with the Laval Rocket in the AHL this past season.

The gamble though isn't the minimal salary. The gamble is that you have to use one of your ~7 NHL defence roster slots...on a guy who is coming off some serious injury concerns that have yet to be totally cleared up and dismissed, who might not even be close to NHL caliber. Even more than that, you'd be burning that spot in a season that's going to be more logistically complicated with roster management in a condensed Covid season. You can't really afford to burn a spot on a non-NHL caliber player, even if they do have a bit of decent enough potential if they get healthy and back on track in their development.

But the kicker is...if you make that claim and even if you're committed to stashing him as your 7th or even 8th D on the roster if he's not good enough/ready enough right now...the guy badly needs to get back to playing games. He's never going to get his development back on track by just sitting around practicing as a "spare" and eating popcorn in the press box. So you're basically burning that NHL roster spot on a "reclamation project" that's entirely doomed to fail.


It's a lot like the situation with Jacob Markstrom a few years back with Vancouver. There was much fretting and hand-wringing about trying to slip him through waivers and how surely he'd be claimed because "he's got potential and pedigree and upside". But everyone steered clear, because it's just not feasible to carry that sort of project on an NHL roster, and furthermore it's kinda futile to even try...because that's not the environment needed to get their feet back underneath them and development back on course.


Now, if the Habs had waived Mete instead? Absolutely, would expect teams to be all over that. He's an established depth NHLer with almost a couple hundred NHL games under his belt at worst, with some upside to explore. That's both a solid depth piece, and bit of an upside project in one. You can absolutely afford to spend a roster spot on that. He'd be claimed for sure. But he doesn't have all of the uncertainty of Juulsen's situation, and he hasn't been on the shelf for the vast majority of the last two calendar years. That's tough for anyone to come back from smoothly, much less a still developing young player coming back from serious injury who hadn't ever firmly established their NHL footing to begin with.

 

[FedorTyutin]

Cant wait noon, for real, either for Soupirer de soulagement, or for Soupirer de déception.

 

[BatVader]

Cant wait noon, for real, either for Soupirer de soulagement, or for Soupirer de déception.

......what?

 

[FedorTyutin]

So long, everybody swearing to God he would not be claimed and laughing their butts off at those who feared !

 

[Treb]

Claim thread is up.