Player Discussion Tomas Tatar

[The Great Weal]

Pretty awful year last year. Hopefully he bounces back and we flip him at retained salary.

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[mariolemieux66]

Just flip him to Dallas before season starts. Ask for their 2019 1st and one of their 2 4th in 2019.
Trade ends up being Pacioretty for Suzuki, Dallas 2019 1st, Columbus 2019 2nd and a 2019 4th.
Not Bad at all!

 

[Kudo Shinichi]

If he doesn't bounce back next season, then I would keep him. There is no rush to trade him, he still has 3 years left.
Just trade him once he is doing good and his value is at the highest.

Would be funny though if he does better than Patch next season

 

[Runner77]

Habs can afford to wait for him to bounce back. They have cap room, there really is no rush.

 

[Kudo Shinichi]

Great shot

 

[the valiant effort]

When he came into Detroit a few years back as one of their new highly touted guys you knew the dynasty was officially over lmao.

But if he can look involved and put together a strong start there should be a few calls coming in for him.

 

[Hostile Offer]

Well at least we got back a guy who has a real sneaky shot. Don't have too many goalscorers in the team.

 

[Adriatic]

If he doesn't bounce back next season, then I would keep him. There is no rush to trade him, he still has 3 years left.
Just trade him once he is doing good and his value is at the highest.

Would be funny though if he does better than Patch next season

I always liked watching Tatar play. Never really watched him all that closely though so pretty sure he's got some issues but he also does a lot of things better than Patch. He can't be worse than what Patch was last season.

 

[Kudo Shinichi]

Tatar had a full ntc and waived it to come to Montreal

 

[Runner77]

Tatar had a full ntc and waived it to come to Montreal

If he waived it to come to Montreal, he shouldn't have any issues waiving it in favor of a contending team.

In any case, his full NTC expires in February of 2020, it's not so bad.

 

[Runner77]

 

[Kudo Shinichi]

He's got better hands than Pacioretty that's for sure

 

[Runner77]

He's got better hands than Pacioretty that's for sure

Houdini, they said in the clip. Nice.

 

[The Great Weal]

Still scored 20 goals despite a crap season.

 

[Runner77]

Leave it to Hockey30 to come up with this kind of stuff: Hockey30 | On voudrait souhaiter la bienvenue à la DOUCE de Tomas Tatar...

 

[BargainBinSpecial]

The contract has a bad cap hit but its only 3 years. At trade deadline, he might get between 20 - 30 goals and the Habs flip him for picks and other prospects again to a contender by keeping 20-30% of his salary.

The Habs need to get reclamation projects and stock up on picks and prospects.

 

[Price is Wright]

Tatar had a full ntc and waived it to come to Montreal

His NTC was voided when he got traded to Vegas before it kicked in. Same thing that happened to Subban.

 

[Rafafouille]

The contract has a bad cap hit but its only 3 years. At trade deadline, he might get between 20 - 30 goals and the Habs flip him for picks and other prospects again to a contender by keeping 20-30% of his salary.

The Habs need to get reclamation projects and stock up on picks and prospects.

Short term, 5.3m cap hit is nowhere near a bad cap hit. It's just around going rate. Pacioretty will get around 8m/year for 30 goals, 60 points(1/3 improvements over Tatar's average of 20/40ish).

 

[CoopersFalls]

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[le_sean]

He’s a fine player. A decent 2nd line winger that’s good for 20 goals a season.

It gives the Habs options to dump other wingers for some help on D.

 

[Deluded Puck]

Like Armia, this is a chance to showcase him and bump up his value. I don’t see him as part of a core that will contend in the long term, more as someone that we can eventually package for something bigger.

2018-19 should be all about asset collecting for the Habs.

 

[HockeyDBspecialist]

lmao people need to calm down, Tatar the last half of the season wasn't AT ALL a good represention.
If he decides to play well he will score 30+

 

[WickedPegJets]

Tatar had a full ntc and waived it to come to Montreal

GM George McPhee can be a very "persuasive" man. He sternly told Tatar, "Waive your NTC or else".

 

[ColinO]

Tatar had a full ntc and waived it to come to Montreal

I believe that the ntc was gone once he waived it when he was traded to Vegas.

 

[Pompeius Magnus]

He's better than what he showed last year. The 14-15 version might not be the accurate representation either but we're getting something in between. He's a top 6 winger.