Habsfan89

Not sold on Hamilton in Montreal. He had a hard time in Boston and Calgary, I think the media will eat him alive much like they did to Drouin if he underperformers. I would look at making a trade and an interesting player could be Ristolainen. 1 year left on his contract. I would offer our 1st round pick and a prospect or another pick to buffalo for him. I think in our system he would do really well.

Well if Weber can't go how about signing both Staal brothers 🤔

One thing for sure about Weber , I would bring him in as a coach when he does call it a career.

Wonder if we offer Tampa Drouin and a 2nd for Sergachev they would accept it lol😹😂😹

If habs go all in on someone to replace Weber then it's Seth Jones they go all in on. I have no problem giving up a 1st and 2nd for him and one of our young D prospects. But I wouldn't give up Romanov or Kotkaniemi for him.

Sounds like what happen to Petter Forsberg.

I feel we need to get bigger down the middle. Our lack of size really showed in the finals vers Tampa.

Would you take landesgok over danault if landesgok hits open market? I would... dream off season Landesgok, Suter and a PP QB on D. Toffoli / Suzuki / Caufeild Anderson / Landesgok / Gallagher Lehkonen / Kotkaniemi / Byron Armia / Staal / Perry Chiarot / Weber Edmundson / Petry Suter / Romanov

I hope Weber gives his old buddy a call, get the band back together lol.

Suter being bought out, should habs take a gamble on him to improve the LD side?

It's funny everyone said habs would be in cap hell with price and weber contracts, but it you look at it everyone who has signed their forward group to big money deals are the ones always in trouble with the cap.

Wow Chicago clearing cap room with that trade. I think Chicago is going to pick up one of the young D available to replace Keith. maybe Jones?🤔

I think if Armia and Danault want too much let them walk. The problem i have with them is that when they go cold it's for a long time and you don't notice them out there. For that reason I don't want to over paid them to stay. Danault at 4-5mil yes anything over 5mil no. Armia at 1.5-2.5mil yes anything over no. I feel that theirs a lot of good 3rd/4th line players out there on the free agency market that we can easily replace them for less and get more out put. Perry and Staal I would bring back along with Lehkonen. Kotkaniemi we need to resign and also Poehling. Like I had mentioned in the other post we need to find a way to get rid of Byron and Drouin contracts. Hopefully we can talk Seattle into taking one of them.

Not really I think they would be more than happy to trade him. But if we can't resign Danault I would offer up Danault UFA rights and a draft pic to Columbus for rights to Laine

This is the fun time a year. I just hope we don't over pay for Danault, if he wants over 6mil let him walk. Theirs a lot of 3rd and 4th line centers in free agency that we can replace his D/face offs skills for less. I would take a gamble on Laine , play him with he's country men maybe that will inspire him. We got to some how get rid of Drouin's and Byron's contracts to have more spending money. I hope we can offer up a pick to Seattle to take one of them. Probably most likely Byron. Blues will lose Tarasenko this off season so maybe if Drouin is going to play next year they would be interested in him. Or call up Colorado and see if they would be interested in reunite him with MacKinnon. Should be an interesting month

I wonder if Blues would take a chance on Drouin to replace Tarasenko 🤔 To blues Drouin + Poehling + Kulak + 1st To habs Tarasenko Wonder if that would work?

A kid by the name of Caufield

He has 2 years left on his contract at 5.5mil. If he decides to play next year do we take a chance on him? Or do we leave him unprotected and work out a deal that Seattle takes him?

Weber isn't going anywhere. The guy that would be left unprotected would be Byron with maybe a side deal in place for Seattle to take him.

Well this didn't take long lol. Here's my take This team has weaknesses and Tampa exposed them. We need to do up grades on our D core and add more Playmakers on the back end. I also think we need to improve our centers on the 4th and 3rd lines. As far as our coaching I think if Bergevin stays then DD is his guy, if Bergevin goes then I think it's a whole new coaching staff. I know we had injuries and guys weren't 100% and a lake of D options so you can't real blame that on DD or the coaching staff can you? I think they did a good job with what they had. As far as rosters change's I would Try to resign Danault if he wants over 6mil let him walk. If we can resign Danault then i would look at trading Kotkaniemi to add a top goal scorer, because we still have Poehling. If we can't resign Danault then we keep Kotkaniemi and go after Laine and take a gamble with him. Tatar is gone Keep Armia Hopefully we can get rid of Byron contract to Seattle Staal is gone Perry is gone Keep Lehkonen Trade Kulak Bring in Niskanen take a gamble on Laine Sign Gruland if Danault goes Lines could look like this Toffoli / Suzuki / Caufield Laine / Kotkaniemi / Gallagher Lehkonen / Gruland or Danault / Anderson Evans / Poehling or Gruland / Armia Chiarot / Weber Edmundson / Petry Romanov / Niskanen Price Allan That's without making any trades to up grade. But with Poehling in the system and the depth at center in free agency I think we could dangle Kotkaniemi out there and see if we can get an up grade at our top center.

Should be an interesting next few weeks, buy outs, expansion draft, NHL draft and free agency.

Well if theirs a sliver lining you got to learn how to lose before you learn how to win. I hope management revamp this Dcore and ad d's some puck moving defensemen.

I think DD should take out Byron and add Tatar on that line. He would add size and scoring to that line . Tatar / Evans / Lehkonen , I think that would balance our lines better because our smaller guys are being pushed around by Tampa. Byron hasn't been effective in the series on the score sheet and we need more goals especially in Tampa.

Plus if that was the case they wouldn't allow Gretzky's goals count from the WHL.

Great game by Romanov