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I don't agree with that particular post but Et le But is a very well respected poster around here.The guy gets 1 like every 10 posts so he irrelevant.
I don't agree with that particular post but Et le But is a very well respected poster around here.The guy gets 1 like every 10 posts so he irrelevant.
Drouin is complete garbage and didnt you see how important cap was even with 50% teams needed a 3rd team broker to make it happen but you for some reason think someone wanted a soft ass no heart player like Drouin at 2.7mill? Or do you think teams were calling Hughes offering a pick for him but Kent didnt want trade him? Like i said hes the last person you would want in a playoffs team not good enough for top 6 and soft no heart for a bottom 6 role in the playoffsYou mean a guy that can literally pass through an entire team lol. He’s worth 2m per year I’m not saying he’s a game breaker like you seem to be stuck on. His injuries and mental health issues is why nobody wants him. He’s a 45-50 point player playing with actual garbage
Give something back to his fans. It's their only two or three days of any excitement this year. Other than the draft. Habs put a terrible product in the ice this season.????
I just can't believe this theory that guys get injured because we have a bad physical preparation department and so on.Injuries hampered Canadiens' Hughes from making big splash in trade pool
The Montreal Canadiens' injury situation left Kent Hughes handcuffed and and disappointed at this year’s trade deadline, but also one that left him determined to do everything possible to avoid similar circumstances moving forward.www.sportsnet.ca
If there is a silver lining to all these injuries its that management is going to get to the bottom of it as its two years of league leading injuries and a long run issue of players having injuries and then not healing properly.
He's not a GM for the fans. He's not gonna make moves just to appease the fans. He has a vision and will stick to it. TD means nothing.Give something back to his fans. It's their only two or three days of any excitement this year. Other than the draft. Habs put a terrible product in the ice this season.
They all know Dvorak no trade be kicking in, he'll be a Hab next two years. Edmunston be back. Hoffman be a Hab next year. He had big offer on Anderson. Move him, Eddy, don't do the Allen extension, Habs would drop from 7-8th now in draft to 4-5th. Plus Montreal adds roughly around 12 million in caproom this summer and about 3 extra first to deal. This city been electric in anticipation of June July. These fans would all know those extra assets be used to acquire a Dubois, plus a Lafreniere, or similar. These fans don't care about the games between now and April. Maybe slightly if Farrell signs, a few with Gurianov.
I just can't believe this theory that guys get injured because we have a bad physical preparation department and so on.
Makes no sense... Our GM is an ex player agent that had all the best doctors in the world at his hand to be able to maximize his client's value!
No way that department is being ignored!
It has to be bad luck.
Take your pick!Bad Luck, or the doctors suck or management has been talking fragile players
You take Sale and you will love it or else we send Petr Pavel with mighty czech imperial army to you and we will show you how to do 3 day special military operation unlike Russia!
At first, I didn’t get this.OH my god...Arvid is gone!!!! Nooooooo! lol
You must be his agent!!!You mean a guy that can literally pass through an entire team lol. He’s worth 2m per year I’m not saying he’s a game breaker like you seem to be stuck on. His injuries and mental health issues is why nobody wants him. He’s a 45-50 point player playing with actual garbage
If you call that a “great” trade deadline, your name must be Kent.It was, we got Gurianov and still have a shot at dealing away pending UFA’s with value next TDL
I disagree.We did what we could with what we had
Good comment, I tend to agree.Klingberg went for a 4th round pick and he is a UFA... With a broker team, he would have been worth the same salary as Edmundson at 50% retained. He went for a f***ing 4th.
I doubt there were much demands for Edmundson. Looking at the market, we probably needed to take a contract for him that also had terms.
I think we will have a better market for him this summer.
Don't forget that its 10-12 team that are buying at TDL. The others teams are either selling or staying put or doing minor tweaks.
Very very tough for contending, cap strapped team to acquire player with terms.
We did what we could with what we had. In other words, we did not do much with nothing.
I am sorry but if you are disappointed with this trade deadline, gotta get your head out of your ass and admit the harsh truth. We are stuck with some nasty contracts for at least two years.
Maximize the value of who exactly ?I disagree.
I think the mistake was trying to max the value of players in a year where the standings are more important then the difference between what was offered and maxing the value.
...he was benched by Tampa Bay in the playoffs before he came hereMan I misread that one too...I was so hype about getting Drouin, I wanted him in the draft and he looked so damn good with the Bolts in the playoffs.
That is exactly my point.Maximize the value of who exactly ?
Philadelphia had no concrete offer for JVR. Klingberg went for a 4th rd pick, he would have had the same AAV as Edmundson at 50% with a broker team. You might be overestimating the market for our garbage.
Considering the team who could have acquired Edmundson, there is no way he was traded without us taking another contract with terms. These buying teams are all already cap strapped for next year. Might as well keep him instead of taking Zadorov, for example.
I assume (or perhaps hope) that this is the next phase in the cleansing of the overall organization. HuGo have started cleaning up the previous regime's negligence in hiring an analytics department and skills coaches. Next up has to be the health side, be it a purge of the medical and training staff, investments in biometrics etc. etc.They could take the lead in all these breakthroughs and protocols but just seems reasonable that they ought to ensure that they have the best available to dispense those technologies. I have a feeling that their hiring standards and performance review process, will need to go under the microscope.
I think the net substractions was not possible.Good comment, I tend to agree.
However, I’m disappointed because I wanted subtraction for its own sake, and not for any return. My argument is simple: we don’t *have to* plan to tank next year if we successfully tank this year, this year’s tank is on the verge of crashing, and none of the oft-proposed-to-dump players are relevant to our future contending roster and it opens up cap space sooner the sooner we dump them, therefore it’s fine to dump them for little return.
If the theory is that there was simply no cap space or demand at all — I dunno if I buy that, if the players were near free I think they would’ve been picked up.
But… the above requires us to value the current draft picks well above the potential of the ones we’d later acquire for them. When considering injury, continuous decline in production leading to decline in reputation, and more stink of tanking… I think it’s a worthwhile argument.
What Sam Pollock was able to accomplish 50 years ago does not constitute a legitimate 'real life' example for 2023. Even the crappiest management teams in today's NHL would scoff at how some of those expansion era teams operated.You have to accept the position of weakness, only because of this draft strength.
Not easy thing to do and to know when to do it but they are paid big bucks specifically because they should understand and smell out these things.
Accepting the weakness means they should have traded guys under the price they wanted because of the tank. Adding all these little wins on trades won’t add up to having a real shot to draft top 3 this year. Not understanding this was a huge mistake.
Real life example: How did the Habs draft Lafleur.