tomh009
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17 minutes ago, DON said:
Is "buying out" in the off-season an option for the Gallagher or Armia's contracts?
Or just not a smart route to take?
You save 1/3 of the salary but the cap hits stretch well into the years where the Habs should become contenders (and will need cap space). Armia has only two seasons beyond this one, I can't see how stretching that to four would be better.
Buyout is really a last resort.
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5 hours ago, dlbalr said:
There's no goalie worthy of being a lottery selection. I know you want them to draft a goalie early but if there isn't a first-round-worthy goalie, they shouldn't be taking a goalie in the first round.
100%. And goalies are almost always high-risk selections, so just because we picked one in the first round doesn't come even close to guaranteeing that the goalie will become an NHL regular, let alone a starter.
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4 hours ago, Neech said:
He's not at peak value this season, at least let his numbers rebound before trading him.
But no rush because he's one of our few good defensive forwards.
And even if he were at peak value ... you need to have someone else ready to step in before trading him. And I'm not so sure we have that right now.
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18 hours ago, Habs Fan in Edmonton said:
The Panthers lose their 3rd in a row (awesome). If the season ended today we would be drafting around 8 and 11. Still a long way to go but we are not that far from the 1/2 way mark of the season. Habs have a game with Florida coming up. Hope the Habs win in regulation, don't want an overtime game.
8th and 9th based on points percentage; Nashville and Vancouver are only a point behind Florida and have two and three games on hand.
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Maybe St-Louis wants to develop this part of the game?
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I'd try Richard or Armia. Neither one likely but need to find someone other than Dach that will click with Caufield/Suzuki. And either one would need more than a game or two to see if they can find a common frequency.
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5 minutes ago, BCHabnut said:
Bad trade. He would be such a great role player and mentor to this young team. The only one I was against last year.
I love Lehkonen, but I think it's too early to call this trade, we really don't know yet what Barron will be in the future.
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1 hour ago, hockeyrealist said:
It was widely reported Monny was wearing a walking boot for quite a while before being shut down.
Why did they allow him to play himself into what seems to be a lengthy injury? Why wasn’t he managed better, he’s got obv injury history and coming off big surgeries (hips, so somewhat unrelated) but the point remains that it appears they played him into the injury becoming a bigger issue than it was.I do suspect that the team medical staff may have more information about the injuries and their treatment than we do, so concluding that they didn't manage the injury properly is a bit rash.
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8 hours ago, Prime Minister Koivu said:
He gave the puck away three times in the last two games while playing point on the PP. Not even pressured, he just passes the puck away.
So, that's why our PP was so much better before Drouin was on it? Now he destroys both PP1 and PP2 single-handedly ...
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1 hour ago, The Chicoutimi Cucumber said:
When it comes to that bum, the bar needs to be low. Very low indeed.
Maybe yes. But you can't really blame the PP on him when he has barely played on it.
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5 hours ago, Prime Minister Koivu said:
Yeah that PP is really bad…
Perhaps stop putting the human turn over machine Drouin on point for starters.
As fun as it is to beat up on Drouin, putting him on the PP (in the last few games) really did not make the PP appreciably worse.
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14 hours ago, sbhatt said:
I like this idea...a lot. Sit him down and tell him you have no intentions of actually playing him again, so if he'd like to be spared having to do the practices and workouts and the travel, only to sit in the pressbox every single night until the end of the season, he has to go along with LTIR.
If Drouin wants to be able to sign a contract for next year (anywhere, in any league), spending half the season on LTIR would not make that any easier.
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With 32 teams in the league now, winning the cup may be too high a bar. But, as you say, need to show something else, then, in order to get your number retired. Caufield scoring 50 or 60 in a season, for example? That's nice, but unless he does that consistently over the longer term, that still doesn't merit the retirement of a number.
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6 hours ago, Plutarch said:
I really just don't want to have lost sergachev for nothing haha. At least a 4th round pick next year will give hope of a future hahaha.
Water under the bridge. I really couldn't care less about the Sergachev trade at this point.
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19 hours ago, dlbalr said:
First start, second appearance (he got mop up duty in one of the Abbotsford games).
How did he look, apart from the goals allowed? It's really hard for me to judge his performance based on ECHL play.
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Was that Vrbetic’s first AHL game?
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Martin didn’t make a single save on a high-danger or medium-danger shot. With average goaltending, the Habs should have scored two goals, but they actually scored four.
These numbers support Martin having had a bad game and a brutal first period.
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16 hours ago, Peter Puck said:
I don't think you can really blame Martin Jones. The first 3 goals came on gold-plated chances. Even the 4th goal wasn't a bad goal to give up.
I looked at Natural Stat Trick after the first period. I think Martin was 0/2 on high-danger shots, 0/1 on medium danger ones and 4/5 on low-danger ones. And for the game overall, the Habs were roughly 2xG but 4 actual goals scored ...
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7 minutes ago, Prime Minister Koivu said:
Allen was great but I think we got lucky tonight
xG was 3.03 to 1.75 for the Kraken, according to Natural Stat Trick. Allen saved one goal more than expected but the Habs scored 2.25 more than expected, which is all the difference.
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Looks like Allen in net again. Redemption or not?
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I wasn't referring to the fourth line so much as noting that at the moment the Habs' roster is short of penalty-killing-capable forwards. Yes, you could call up Pitlick (who played in that role last season) but that's about it.
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6 hours ago, alfredoh2009 said:
I was looking at that scenario, because Evans cap hit is fairly low and would be a great addition to a team that has fire power on the top lines but needs a PK specialist
I think that describes the Habs spot-on, especially if they trade Evans. So if were to trade Evans and (gasp!) Armia, where would that leave our PK?
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4 hours ago, Commandant said:
I still think Harris has been better than Xhekaj. He's more solid though less noticeable as he doesn't get in fights or throw big hits.
What really impresses me about Xhekaj is not so much his absolute skill level, but the speed at which he adapted his game from the OHL style (where he was the big guy and could throw his weight around) to the NHL (where he is not all THAT big). I thought (and some others did, too) that he might struggle in the AHL for a while before getting to the NHL.
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The Athletic's story today talked about three hires that Gorton has made, picking people without conventional experience in the same job, and potentially finding people with fresh ideas and points of view: Hughes, St-Louis and Gordie Clark (now on the professional scouting team).
Interestingly, Gorton tried to hire Hughes in NY already, and also tried to hire St-Louis to coach their AHL team. Neither was willing to take the offer back then, which is probably a good thing for the Habs.
World Juniors 2023
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Indeed it was.
3-2 OT final for Switzerland. The Swiss have a solid if no-name team, much in the mould of the Finnish teams, and they just suffocated the Finnish offence.