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GDT Game 82 Detroit at Montreal 7pm April 16
tomh009 replied to Prime Minister Koivu's topic in Habs & Hockey Talk
$250K. -
GDT Game 82 Detroit at Montreal 7pm April 16
tomh009 replied to Prime Minister Koivu's topic in Habs & Hockey Talk
Definitely cheaper. Some of the broadcasts are a bit dodgy, though, at least on my friend’s unit. At $200 I’m willing to pay it to get a decent broadcast. Your mileage may vary! 🙂 -
The trouble is that not many don't want to give up quality if all they get is quantity.
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GDT Game 82 Detroit at Montreal 7pm April 16
tomh009 replied to Prime Minister Koivu's topic in Habs & Hockey Talk
Sportsnet top package has no blackouts (outside the Habs region) and you can likely get it for $200 for the season. -
GDT Game 82 Detroit at Montreal 7pm April 16
tomh009 replied to Prime Minister Koivu's topic in Habs & Hockey Talk
Maybe not outright stinko, but definitely not as good as Reimer. -
GDT Game 82 Detroit at Montreal 7pm April 16
tomh009 replied to Prime Minister Koivu's topic in Habs & Hockey Talk
Teams learned to play against Caufield, to prevent or at least expect passes to him. Caufield has now learned to be more versatile, though. Learning what Hutson can do, though, doesn't necessarily help as much in playing against him. -
GDT Game 82 Detroit at Montreal 7pm April 16
tomh009 replied to Prime Minister Koivu's topic in Habs & Hockey Talk
They have clinched sixth. Fifth if the Coyotes secure at least a point tomorrow. -
GDT Game 82 Detroit at Montreal 7pm April 16
tomh009 replied to Prime Minister Koivu's topic in Habs & Hockey Talk
I want to see Hutson in the shootout. -
GDT Game 82 Detroit at Montreal 7pm April 16
tomh009 replied to Prime Minister Koivu's topic in Habs & Hockey Talk
I couldn't watch last night's game so this is my first time watching him (in the NHL). It's damned impressive what he's able to do. He's quick, he has moves and he looks like his vision is superb. Watching him on PP, or taking the shot for Slafkovsky's goal was really impressive for a kid in his second NHL game--and yet Detroit knew what he could do, from yesterday's game, and had no answer. I'm feeling super optimistic about Hutson at the moment. Maybe too optimistic. But these are not just Poehling-lucky goals, this is a display of skill. -
GDT Game 81 - Montréal vs Detroit - 7:00 pm - April 15, 2024
tomh009 replied to GHT120's topic in Habs & Hockey Talk
... weakness on D, made worse by the absence of Guhle and Xhekaj. But at least on D, I think we can expect steady improvement over the next handful of years as our prospects mature into NHL players, and then grow their skills in their first few years in the league. Forwards are more challenging. Top line (Caufield, Suzuki, Slafkovsky) looks good. Dach, Newhook and Roy could potentially be a second line, or else give us a strong 3C (if we have another top-six winger from somewhere). Bottom-six, though, we have the three you identified (Armia, Evans and Gallagher), plus Dvorak and Anderson. RHP? Heineman? Probably none of Pezzetta or Ylonen, unless as a 13th forward. I expect Beck and Mesar will need time in the AHL, as will likely any 2024 draft pick. That's not a super-encouraging bottom six, no matter how you arrange it, so we would need to hope that Hughes can trade picks and/or D prospects for some credible forward strength. Or sign Monahan to a reasonable UFA contract. -
GDT Game 82 Detroit at Montreal 7pm April 16
tomh009 replied to Prime Minister Koivu's topic in Habs & Hockey Talk
Usually yes, but not if we are using LTIR ... -
Where are they now? News on past Habs prospects and players
tomh009 replied to alfredoh2009's topic in Habs & Hockey Talk
Guhle has another year. Barron and Xhekaj are the only ones that I'm 100% confident will get new contracts next season. But Pearson, White and Wideman will drop off the roster, as will Edmundson's retaind salary and Alzner's buyout. Probably Ylonen, too, although he might be traded so salary coming back from that. But from the other five, it's over $7M freed up, plus the cap goes up by $4M. Montembeault's extension kicks in, though, and that will eat a little over $2M of the $11M or so above. -
Signing Luke Tuch signed (2 years ELC @ $925K AAV)
tomh009 replied to GHT120's topic in Habs & Hockey Talk
If his ELC would have started this season, how much would he have actually received? Maybe 1/82 or 1/41 of the salary, plus the signing bonus? -
GDT Game 81 - Montréal vs Detroit - 7:00 pm - April 15, 2024
tomh009 replied to GHT120's topic in Habs & Hockey Talk
Only one point. The first point for Hutson on a lovely pass. And two unusually pretty goals for Gallagher! -
GDT Game 81 - Montréal vs Detroit - 7:00 pm - April 15, 2024
tomh009 replied to GHT120's topic in Habs & Hockey Talk
And he can still block shots, too. -
GDT Game 81 - Montréal vs Detroit - 7:00 pm - April 15, 2024
tomh009 replied to GHT120's topic in Habs & Hockey Talk
Halfway through the game, Hutson-Savard is at almost 10 minutes TOI, in spite of a PK for Savard. -
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Marc-Antoine Godin thinks Tuch will sign the deal tonight or tomorrow. He's usually pretty reliable ...
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2023-24 Montreal Canadiens Discussion Thread
tomh009 replied to GHT120's topic in Habs & Hockey Talk
The deadline will give Hughes another six months or so of data. And it's not like waiting will risk the Habs losing a first-rounder in trade value anyway, so my prediction is that Hughes will not trade Armia in the summer. Unless, of course, he were to acquire a better player for that role at the same time. -
It's a wild one out there. Three goals in 95 seconds and now it's 5-4 Coyotes.
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I have no argument with that. As I said, I think it depends on what deals Hughes makes in the summer and whether he thinks he has better options for those positions. I don't expect that Evans would make much more than his current $1.7M, and Armia would likely cost less than he makes today. Hughes gets paid the big bucks to figure out whether those two (and others) are worth extending, but (at least for me) it's impossible to determine the right choices without knowing what the other puzzle pieces are. The return for Evans, for example, will surely be just a late-round pick, which really doesn't have much value. And his salary is not onerous, so the big question is who will fill that role in 2025 and beyond. Maybe Beck will be ready? But that is not known yet this summer so I suspect Hughes would not move Evans until he has either another player for this role or higher confidence that Beck will be able to fill it.
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Yes. But PK will be needed in in 2025-26 as well. Possibly after that, too. 🙂 My point really is that players like Evans and Armia do have value beyond their point production. And that we'll need some capable PK players as well. We'll see what Hughes decides to do in this regard.
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Flames 3-7 in the last 10, Coyotes 6-4. So, maybe there is some hope there. 🙂
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2023-24 Montreal Canadiens Discussion Thread
tomh009 replied to GHT120's topic in Habs & Hockey Talk
Need some additional PK skill on the roster, though. We don't have much beyond Armia, Evans and Suzuki now, and the gap will get bigger yet if we trade Armia. -
It's a lot of assumptions (Armia, Evans and others); so much depends on whether Hughes' assumptions match yours (or mine)--and what deals they are able to make in the summer. Getting rid of Armia, Evans, Pearson and Ylonen, for example, will make our already-weak PK far worse yet, so that would likely be contingent on signing someone that can also take on that role. Hab's PK TOI this year.