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He’s no Tremblay. I think he will probably be a good coach. Just don’t think he picked a very good team for his comeback.

Agreed. I thought for sure Ottawa would hire him. Sens were dumb bringing back Martin as a tempo coach I nstead.

Agreed. But it won’t be a reasonable price if the price LAK paid for PLD is what ANA things it can get for Zegras.

I’m sinking it is reference of a large part of the fan base wanting to overpay for PLD - who so far has been a bust in LA.

Let’s not forget that this mgmt team does seem to have a development plan, rather than expecting guys like Mete to be a top pairing right away - or putting them into that position because they have zero depth.

I’m okay with that. I also think that Lekhonan would have been a better player to play with Suzuki or Dach during their development, and would have been a guy that could have been moved later. He is a guy who actually did work his ass of every shift and want the big elusive unicorn the habs have been chasing forever.

IF Reimbacher is a top pairing D (a legit top pairing guy (not a guy playing here out of necessity), we made the right choice. However if he is a 2nd pairing Dman, we made the wrong choice. i wouldn’t have felt so strongly that we make the wrong pick, if it wasn’t for the overall consensus that this was a draft with a lot of elite forwards, but not really a one with elite high-end dmen. D was already the strength of our prospect pool, so unless we get a legit top pairing RHD, we made a mistake. Just like we made a mistake taking KK, instead of Hughes or Tkachuk because we had no centres and MB stated many times you can’t trade for higher end top centres (which HuGo proved wrong at two successive drafts).

100% agree. He is a guy who can score on a hot streak, but really isn’t an offensive guy. He is effective when physical and he is skating and playing hard. However, he takes far too many nights off, and at times he looks like he needs to go see the wizard for a heart, a brain, and despite his size - courage. He would have been a decent resigning for $2m (number I said how how we should have gone about Jennie was a UFA), and a great to have at around $1.5m to $1.75m. I wish we had let him walk and resigned Lekhonan to the same contract, but that ship sailed a long time ago. Typical MB and his size fetish. 100% agree that we can’t move him without eating 50% of his salary and even than may need a 3rd team to eat 25%. If we could get a decent pick to eat 50% for this year and next, I’d make that deal in a heartbeat - even if it means we lose our last retention spot.

If his timing is/was good off because of his shoulder, and he’s back to normal, I can see him going in a year where he scores 20 goals in the second half.

Thats why I wanted is to take Michkov or Leonard at the last draft. Michkov could have been a Kane type of winger, while Leonard could have given us two lines with big wingers.

If I had a dollar for every time someone brought up that Armia is on a 20 goal pace, I’d be making more more than he is🙄

Two useless players signed for too much money. Monohan looked good against McDavid. PK can be taught. Don’t need to spend $8m on two PK specialists, when with the right coaching, I’m sure Evans can do just fine - certainly not worse. I’d say coaching and systems, and not personnel is the issue.

There are some players that can make their linemates rise up to their levels Armia’s specialty is making his linemates disappear with him. Too bad Roy’s first NHL game had to be with that stiff.

His issues most likely resulted by not being able to live up to the pressure he faced. When he was in Tampa, and was sent down, or wasn’t getting ice time, he pouted. Than MB made one of his many bonehead mistakes of handing a guy who hadn’t proven anything a long term deal - which Drouin was never able to live up to.

He seems to have the entitled Drouin syndrome.

And there were guys here wanting to give him $9m🙄

Maybe Marty thought he had Patrick Roy out there against McDavid.

Should be swapping Ylonen and Armia. Or better yet, send Armia down and bring up Andersson

With rumours that Montreal was offered Cutter Gauthier at the draft for the 5th pick, is that a move we should have made? having passed on Gauthier at the draft, could we have gotten him for a Barron+Harris type package?

The GA is horrible. Looks like Tampas’s farm team is rolling right along.

I guess we will have to wait and see. If Tampa can give up what they did for Jeannot - who admittedly is a younger (who they intended on reigning),and different type of player, but wasn’t one that was used in the top 6, I can see teams overpaying for a guy who can not only add to their team with his ability to fit in anywhere in the lineup, be insurance for top 6 in case of injury, and at worst be a solid 3rd line player at a very low cap hit.

Guys like Lindholm and Henrique are not only going to cost more, but will require more cap room. I agree there are only going to be so many 1st rounders available for the draft and potentially even 2025, but with the number of picks we have and the number of prospects in our system, we should be trying to get more picks 2026-2028. We will hopefully be picking later and could use more picks at that time - either to restock the cupboards, or to use as capital to add players for our own future playoff runs.

I agree that the Avs are probably shooting higher. But I could see the canes, Caps, Isles in the East as teams potentially a fit (I think the Pena would be interested, they just have no assets to offer up). When you look at the west, I could see most of the teams in the playoff picture wanting to add a guy like Monohan. A team like Winnipeg is going to be all in -the only thing that they’ll be carful about upsetting chemistry. If the Avs make a big move, others in the west will also be looking to add. There will always be demand and a premium for RHD and centres that can slide up and down, or play the wing in the middle six - particularly guys who can produce and are responsible offensively. With so many team’s up against the cap, when you factor in Monohan’s cap hit, I could see multiple teams willing to give up a 1st+ for Monohan. Hell, if we were a legit playoff team and a guy like Monohan was available, he is exactly the kind of guy I’d be looking to add. At his cap hit, teams could add him AND address another need. I think it’s going to depend more on the amount of movement that occurs leading up to the deadline. This is a copycat league. It’s just going to take one team to make a significant move to trigger a flurry of activity. If that move doesn’t happen, we could be in for a quiet deadline. But like I said earlier, it’s a copycat league - and there are some teams that will make moves, so we could be in for a pretty busy deadline, and that could lead to a lot of overpaying. I’d love it if we could move Allen, Monohan and Savard by the deadline and pick up two first rounders, and a couple of second rounders, or some high end prospects. Hell, in our situation with so many prospects, we should be looking at making moves to add picks for the 2026 to 2028 drafts when hopefully we will be picking much later in the draft!

Armia was on pace for 20 goals many times during his career. Now Monohan is and always will be 10 times the player Armia could ever be, but he is an old 29. He isn’t even a 60 point guy anymore, and I don’t see him getting 20. I do see him having an enough for a playoff run. I also see value in being a mentor that can provide 12-17 goals over the next three years snd 40-50 points if healthy and that’s a big IF. I think given where we are a 1st rounder is worth more. That can be used to trade. For another centre from a cash strapped team later on, and not just to pick another player at the draft. So if we can get a 1st for Monohan, given where we are, I don’t know how we could even think twice but to trade him. If we resign him No one is going to give up a 1st for a guy like Monohan at the draft even if he was making $3m/yr, but someone may be willing to overpay for a playoff run at his current salary with no future commitments.

I think most teams will see him as bargain 3rd liner, who can be moved up the lineup when needed, and I think some teams will be willing to give up a 1st rounder for that versatility at his current salary. I th knee can play more of a role that Lars Eller did with the Caps during their cup run, at a much lower cap hit.