Commandant Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 Our 30 teams in 30 days series looks at each team’s best free agent signing. Today we look at the Montreal Canadiens. http://lastwordonsports.com/2016/08/02/best-montreal-canadiens-free-agent-signing/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DON Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 Well, with #13 you set the bar pretty low at least. I would think any free agent who actually helped win a cup would be a better option. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hab29RETIRED Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 And on the Montreal Canadiens that would be who????? Well, with #13 you set the bar pretty low at least. I would think any free agent who actually helped win a cup would be a better option. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DON Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 And on the Montreal Canadiens that would be who????? Cant be Weber, Petry, or vast majority of current team, as they weren't free agents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCHabnut Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 That is pretty sad. I don't dislike Cammalleri but his numbers on Montreal weren't that great. If he is the best fee agent the habs have ever signed, it shows that montreal is not a favorite place to play by players. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DON Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 Exactly, any superstar sniper wouldn't even think twice about working in Quebec. Squid has been bouncing from one team to another for a reason. Now, if Habs can actually win a cup or two, might be a different story? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hab29RETIRED Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 In response to your"help win the cup" comment, my point was, we haven't win a cup in the free agent era, so who would you classify as the best free agent using that criteria? Based in the signings we've had Cammy is by far the best UFA we've signed and actually helped us to at least get to the final four. The other final four we went to, the key players were price and subban, and we dumped one of those as well. Cant be Weber, Petry, or vast majority of current team, as they weren't free agents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hab29RETIRED Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 Exactly, any superstar sniper wouldn't even think twice about working in Quebec. Squid has been bouncing from one team to another for a reason. Now, if Habs can actually win a cup or two, might be a different story? Philly doesn't have trouble attracting UFA's, but haven't win a cup since the 70s.Detroit win a cup in 2009, but haven't been able to attract top UFA's since Hossa. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DON Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 And what part of Quebec are they situated in? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hab29RETIRED Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 And what part of Quebec are they situated in?The same as detroit. Montreal or Quebec teams aren't the only ones that have trouble attracting free agents. It doesn't help having a moron coaching that most skilled players don't want to play for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DON Posted August 3, 2016 Share Posted August 3, 2016 The same as detroit. Montreal or Quebec teams aren't the only ones that have trouble attracting free agents. Who said they were? I said Habs being located in Quebec + crap track record for 25yrs has taken Habs off the 'preferred' destination list. When Detroit was winning cups, all-star players would take a huge hair cut just to play there, same as Chicago now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Machine of Loving Grace Posted August 3, 2016 Share Posted August 3, 2016 That is pretty sad. I don't dislike Cammalleri but his numbers on Montreal weren't that great. If he is the best fee agent the habs have ever signed, it shows that montreal is not a favorite place to play by players. Disappointing season numbers, superior playoff numbers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stogey24 Posted August 3, 2016 Share Posted August 3, 2016 When Detroit was winning cups, all-star players would take a huge hair cut just to play there, same as Chicago now. like buzz cuts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Chicoutimi Cucumber Posted August 4, 2016 Share Posted August 4, 2016 It's worth remembering that for the first few years of the cap era Montreal was bottom-feeding garbage unlikely to appeal to most players. Could part of the problem be that the 'golden age' of UFA signings was drawing to an end just as the Habs re-emerged as a reasonably competitive, positive environment in which to play ? If that's the case, then Montreal per se isn't the problem, rather the evaporation of the UFA pool is. If memory serves, by 2009 GMs - never the brightest bunch - had finally started to figure out the importance of locking up core players long-term in a cap system, bringing us into the present world of relatively slim pickings. You can say that Cammy was nothing special, but he was surely the top UFA of that summer, for instance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DON Posted August 4, 2016 Share Posted August 4, 2016 Cammy...ugg even the nickname sounds like a disease, malady or something you need ointment to get rid of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Chicoutimi Cucumber Posted August 4, 2016 Share Posted August 4, 2016 Cammy...ugg even the nickname sounds like a disease, malady or something you need ointment to get rid of. Do you have a bee in your bonnet about flashy players? Just asking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCHabnut Posted August 4, 2016 Share Posted August 4, 2016 Cammy was a great player for montreal. I was just surprised that he was the best. You could argue that Markov was the best UFA to sign as well. He went to within weeks of UFA and chose to sign didn't he? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commandant Posted August 4, 2016 Author Share Posted August 4, 2016 Cammy was a great player for montreal. I was just surprised that he was the best. You could argue that Markov was the best UFA to sign as well. He went to within weeks of UFA and chose to sign didn't he? Every team has players that go close to UFA, some even getting to July 1st and then re-sign. We did not include these players as eligible for the series. It has to be a pure free agent addition... as in a player who was not playing for the team in the season prior to free agency. For the purposes of the Series, Markov is a drafted player, Kovalev a player we traded for, etc... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DON Posted August 4, 2016 Share Posted August 4, 2016 Do you have a bee in your bonnet about flashy players? Just asking. Add in Kovalev to my shitlist as well...so maybe you are correct. But, I got fingers crossed that the new #47 can produce as well as backcheck at least a little bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCHabnut Posted August 4, 2016 Share Posted August 4, 2016 Kovalev and Cammalleri are the best scorers the team has had in 20 years. Every team has players that go close to UFA, some even getting to July 1st and then re-sign. We did not include these players as eligible for the series. It has to be a pure free agent addition... as in a player who was not playing for the team in the season prior to free agency. For the purposes of the Series, Markov is a drafted player, Kovalev a player we traded for, etc... Makes sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DON Posted August 4, 2016 Share Posted August 4, 2016 Sad to say those two clowns have been best Habs Mgmt could come up with over past couple decades. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commandant Posted August 4, 2016 Author Share Posted August 4, 2016 Don gets mad at players who don't Rispek Da Sysdum 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meller93 Posted August 4, 2016 Share Posted August 4, 2016 Kovalev and Cammalleri are the best scorers the team has had in 20 years. Makes sense. Coughpaciorettycough Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DON Posted August 5, 2016 Share Posted August 5, 2016 Coughpaciorettycough Haha! Nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Chicoutimi Cucumber Posted August 5, 2016 Share Posted August 5, 2016 Yeah, this is Montreal. We don't want flamboyant players here. Guys like Howie Morenz, Doug Harvey, Boom Boom Gefferion, Guy Lafleur, Patrick Roy - they have no place in our organization By far our greatest successes as a franchise came when we got rid of anyone with panache and replaced them with bland dudes and grinders, like Yannick Pereault. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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