alfredoh2009

Unless the Habs can draft a potential elite forward, I will take either best player available even if it is a LD, or I would trade down or out to get a young prospect with high potential like Newhook and Dach.

Kovacevic is a very good 3rd pair RD at this stage of the Habs rebuild. By this and other metrics.

I just read a headline about Engstrom. Isn't Bogdan Konyushkov also a strong prospect? For sure, the prospect pipeline has been fixed, notably by MB stubbornly insisting on not trading prospects and HughGort using expiring contracts and veterans smartly on trades for young talent. Now, it is time to start putting a team that competes together.

I have been following the Rocket all season to see how much the D prospects are progressing to then try to guess what HughGort may do with the NHL roster. I am not knowledgeable enough to predict how much more to expect from Harris. He seems to me like an ideal 3rd pair LD on a cup playoff team. At the AHL level, Trudeau has sometimes been good but I do not remember any analyst of commentator reporting that has has been great for any significant stretch. So, on LD, it is a question of whom the Habs can develop to be a top-4 out of Hutson/Xhekaj/Struble.They each have teh potential, with Hutson's being off-the-charts. On the RD, I believe Savard will be traded at the deadline; so the Habs ahve the bare minimum to fill all the spots on that side at the NHL level. Kovacevic is a great asset to have on RD. I would be patient for another year, while looking for the best trade return for Savard before the trade deadline.

I just hope the injury curse phantom passes over Hutson. I wonder how he sill do against physical NHL play, much like Harris had to adapt his game.

too bad Simoneau is out for the season and Gignac is not clear to play yet. I hope that if Gignac plays, he is fully recovered. Without his speed, he is not the same player.

more of a Beckster, but yeah 😍

Beck 😍 !!!

Savard Will implode in his old age like Weber. I hope they trade him at the next deadline to improve the team.

that is a great observation on the Newhook line. Anderson was considered by many as a glorified 3rd liner that had an outliers season before getting injured in CBJ MB touted him a à player that helps you in the playoff and often pushed criticism on regular season dry spells he had. He was overpaid because the Habs needed that type of player during the Price-Weber window. In the current team’s context, Anderson is useless. Playing 3rd line will not raise his trade value, unless he has an unselfish centre like Evans to do all the dirty/defensive work for him. my hope is that the Habs get an uncontested top-6 forward that pushes Anderson out of the top-6 and out of the team on a trade

Gignac tried skating before last weekend’s games and could not come back. A lower-body (Knee?) injury Stephens is expected to come back for the games

Stephens has been out on IR but seems to be pushing for a comeback Perreault is out, Jankov was demoted to 3Riv, Gignac has been out recently, I have not checked the website, but the Habs show have a strong AHL lineup with Roy back

Nice to read this:

Let’s hope it is not too late. Those two games are looking to be really fun to watch Go Rocket, Go!

it's the curse!