tomh009

Celine Dion walking through the tunnel to make the Habs pick last year ... there is no comparison.

Maybe the Habs can pick him at #62 or something ...

Yeah. This is really feeble.

He was a rock before being run over by a truck. Maybe he was still hurt when he returned and will recover and more. We do still have more promising young forwards in the pipeline: Hage, Kapanen, Beck, Florian, Davidson, Farrell, Hage, Rohrer, ... some of them will certainly be good enough to be middle-six forwards.

I guess today's drafting might be rather uneventful. At least for us. 🤪

And we still have Reinbacher and Mailloux ... our D corps should be solid now.

$9.5M much better than $11M.

It's like Drouin for Sergachev. Except now we are Tampa Bay.

$4.4M is indeed a hefty discount. He clearly (1) is not desperate for money and (2) doesn't want to go anywhere else.

The fan interest is certainly intense 😊 but does that apply to Hughes? It appears that they have made an offer but that in itself doesn't mean that he is desperate.

Is this real?

2W probably more likely at this point than 3C. But Poehling’s 30 points is a rather low bar.

I think we would need a fifth-rounder in addition!

The top Gorton quote for tomorrow: “This is a big weekend for us and a big summer for us, but we’re not going to do anything stupid.”

One would hope that would be the case ... we should know by tomorrow morning, I would think.

So, Dobson only has one year before UFA, and he's offer-sheet eligible. If a team trades for him, he could refuse to sign for the long term and walk to UFA the next spring. I don't know that he would ... but that risk surely reduces his trade value.

Let's create a separate thread for tomorrow's draft day action.

With the draft coming up, am revisiting a certain pick from three years ago. My comment aged pretty well. 🤪 Don was rather less optimistic, though. In the end, I expect we are all very happy with the pick the Habs made, and having a Calder winner on the team.

Andersson is pretty good. But he'll expect to be paid pretty well, too, and that could present a challenge. And trade surely won't be cheap given the demand for first-pair Ds. Does he improve the team enough to be worth the trade and the contract?

The rumours are turning, yes. But I have confidence that Hughes has not given up yet and is still working on 2Coptions.

Absolutely. But all we do on this forum is exchange opinions. And my opinion is that a mid-round 18yo is going to be a bigger risk than Mailloux or Kapanen.

Yes ... the ultimate level Kapanen and Mailloux will reach is still unknown, but I think we can be confident that they will be NHL players. Draft picks are a much bigger gamble--and the probability isn't much different between #12 and #16.

Is it worth giving up Mailloux to move from #16 to #13, assuming that Detroit would consider such a trade? That's a good question.

Right. And at that point, if you are 210 lbs, it doesn't matter so much whether you are 5'11 or 6'1.

Is Suzuki too small?