Will our defenceman be ready for our cup window?

[GREMLIN]

We were in the conference finals last year were they ready then?

Would we have beaten nrw york if Tinordi and Beaulieu had been prepared?

We were barely even getting zone entries, couldnt get passed their blue line. I dont see how Beaulieu or Tinordi would've fixed that.

 

[MrDontGive]

We should make a good offer for Vlasic.

 

[Brainiac]

What cup window?

We've been two years away from contention for about 10 years...

 

[smon]

What cup window?

We've been two years away from contention for about 10 years...

Technically correct but practically... come on. If you are not a fan of the current core group and their future contention changes you must really be forgetting some of the rosters the Habs have iced in the past 10 years.

 

[Habs100]

With Hudon, Reway, Andrighetto, Scherbak, Galchenyuk, Audette, Thomas, Lehkonen, McCarron, Gallagher all vying for top 9 spots, + Tokarski and Fucale, Hopefully we'll have enough trade bait to land a premier defender.

Right now, I don't think small, unestablished forwards have much trade value. That could change if Johnson and the lightning are successful in the post season.

But you're right, since so many of our small forwards are so promising and since we can't keep them all, we will have trade chips.

I'm glad the first small forward to go was Collberg in the Vanek trade. I had him rated below all the small forwards you listed except Thomas (was before camp) and we didn't have Audette yet.

I'm really high on Hudon, Andrighetto, Lehkonen, and Reway. I hold out hope for Thomas and I'm optimistic about Audette's potential. I have to see him at the next level to get excited about him.

 

[Sorinth]

Without trades/UFA signings our cup window such as it is ends with Markov no longer being a top pairing guy.

We have two top pairing defenceman right now in Subban and Markov, and I doubt Beaulieu will become as good as Markov is so that's a downgrade on something we already need to improve on.

We need to either acquire another top-4 guy to stabilize our D, or hope that either Beaulieu or Tinordi takes a huge step development wise while Markov is still a top end guy.

 

[Team_Spirit]

Like it's been said they should make their rookie mistakes this season. Instead they let old over-the-hill vets do the same mistakes.

Tinordi-Subban Markov-Beaulieu should be the top 4. I think both PK and Andrei would thrive as leaders for these guys.

 

[ottawa]

That's a pretty terrible strategy.

How about having a good defense to go along with our great goalie? Price can't do everything.

Did I say it was a good strategy? maybe I should start adding for certain people

 

[habsfanatics*]

Without trades/UFA signings our cup window such as it is ends with Markov no longer being a top pairing guy.

We have two top pairing defenceman right now in Subban and Markov, and I doubt Beaulieu will become as good as Markov is so that's a downgrade on something we already need to improve on.

We need to either acquire another top-4 guy to stabilize our D, or hope that either Beaulieu or Tinordi takes a huge step development wise while Markov is still a top end guy.

This!!! As soon as Marky is done, we then have to fill one of the biggest holes on the roster all over again. Our window is now, but we need an addition or 2.