Butterface

Take care guys. Enjoy the Habs…

Trying to be fair and logical about this. Not trying to anger people. I copied and pasted pages 31, 32 and 33 into ChatGPT asked it to ignore the power play chat and concentrate on the arguments over salary cap spreadsheets. It gave me this….

Also, as I said off the bat I’d like everyone and invite everyone to add their own spreadsheets. I know commandant said he didn’t have time to dedicate to it. But anyone is welcome to show how they might do it - with ranges - without guessing potential contracts… however you’d want.

My post wasn’t trying to say anything negative about your knowledge or expertise. Sorry if it came off that way. I would like to see potential contracts going forward to see how they splice with each other. I can’t do ranges as it is too hard for me to do with a simple spreadsheet.

I think the Bolduc contract term will be made with the Demidov contract in mind. If we do a longterm contract with Demidov, and I hope we will, Bolduc will need to fit in. This shouldn’t be an issue with the Anderson and Gallagher contracts coming off the books… and the high likelihood no Laine. But if I don’t push out the Matheson potential contract, the Reinbacher, Dach, Fowler guesstimates… we don’t really know. You just have a giant number of 27.7M with no idea of the 5-6 contracts you need to worry about 4 years from now. You do as you like.

Working with ranges is too much for me. That requires complicated charts, when I just want simplicity. We do own these players rights until July 1st, 2026. On that day I will erase the player projections we no longer control, unless it is obvious we are doing it beforehand. Laine is only 3 games in. Although the writing is already being written on the wall, I will wait a few more months before putting zeros by his name. It is alright you prefer capwages or something similar. I think once our potential cap hit is more than the cap allowance my way makes decisions for the future easier. Remember, this is an exercise for building a team and guessing future decisions. It is not an exact science, but just a tool. I am happy to go off line and do this on my own. I’ve learned enough the last year and if I look back on my all my posts across all the chats since joining a year ago, I can say I’ve been somewhat accurate in my ideas. We came in less than 10% off Hutson contract… and closer on others… I think that is pretty good and doesn’t require ranges.

I do follow your logic… I respect it. But I am curious about this PP1.

Funny I was going to just mention this. Most skilled power play players are represented in the top two lines. Second and third line for PP2. Canadiens have decided to balance their lines and the best power play players are found throughout their line up.

Agreed no need to panic. But I think Laine is the best weapon. He has incredible chemistry with Suzuki and Hutson. I think they will give time to see how it pans out. But those two units are my fall back plan if we don’t get to numbers that are befitting the fire power we have to use on PP1.

If nothing changes, nothing changes ? You can’t expect change if you don’t change something ? It’s time to shake things up ? Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes / Turn and face the strange. (David Bowie – “Changes,” 1971)

No. Most with 2 lines represented.

Have you looked at every power play Laine scored on ? If you do you will see Suzuki and Hutson assisted together on 12 or 13 of his 15 goals. That is chemistry. Caufield did assist on 2 I think. Slaf maybe on one, possibly 2.

If no one likes my PP1, you’ll probably hate my PP2 of Slaf, Caufield, Dobson, Matheson and Dach. I just want bombs on the net and Dach and Slaf to be in the melee for rebounds.

From the start, I said I would only have projections for players we have under team control. If that means there are projections of more than a roster allows, so be it. Out further there are projections with fewer players than are legal. If the chart shows all players projections and we are over the cap in that future year, it might be easier to see which player(s) could be dropped as their salary or combined salaries are too large. Before the cap projections were increased this was the case. Look, if you don’t like the way this information is being compiled, that’s your right. You prefer capwages way which shows 27.7M in space next year. They don’t have a full roster and you are not complaining about them for not being roster compliant. I prefer seeing all the real contracts and potential contracts and then removing the ones that don’t make sense. Neither is better than the other, it’s just a preference.

Ok, I won’t speak in terms of absolutes. However if you look at the contracts we have signed along with the estimates of the contracts we could sign with players we have under our control, we are still 1.5M below cap with 25 players. Does your 27.7M take into account of the high likelihood we re-sign Bolduc ? What about Dach ? Or Xhekaj ? I prefer to have the extra contracts added with salary estimates and remove the contracts I don’t want to get my number. You will take 27.7M and need to add in the salary for Bolduc and Xhekaj… and maybe Dach… Matheson ? Thats harder I think. At some point this year we may say Laine isn’t returning and I will put zeros across the chart instead of 7M.