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Its absolute craziness to believe that losing Price, with nothing in return, puts this team in a better position to win the cup.

That article is dumb. It calls the Habs the third worst team in the off-season. Then it looks at Washington and goes all advanced stats, posting Sean Tierneys GAR advanced stats chart as its reason why for the bottom two teams. Look where the Habs are in that chart. So Washington and Chicago are the two worst cause the advanced stats, but the Habs are third cause other reasons, even when the chart shows that they have small improvement. That chart also assumes Markov is gone and the Habs don't spend their remaining $9.5 million in cap space.

Why is Price going to be too old at 34? Was Brodeur? Hasek? Roy? Lundqvist? Luongo? too old at that age. Goalies last longer than other positions.

I didn't say I liked it, I just gave my interpretation of this nonsensical offer.

Advanced stats wise... expected gf/ga the habs are a small bit, very small right now over last year. And that is assuming we lose markov, and do nothing with 9 million in cap space. Overall the summer is better than you think. That said, the biggest and most valid criticism of Bergevin remains. In 6 off seasons (including this one) he's done nothing to address his team's biggest weakness... the #1 Centre.

Meh, Eklund has no credibility. Worry when someone else reports it.

sounds like a plan B, ala Hemsky/Radulov If Markov doesn't return Habs sign Streit? no info, just a guess on my part.

Looking into his advanced stats during his stint in Ottawa, he was a heavy possession driver, but every time he was on the ice, his goalies turned into sieves. His PDO was something stupid like .930. A right handed centre, who can drive play in the NHL, and showed some offensive flair in the KHL. Sign me up for a relatively cheap gamble on that. DaCosta and Markov to finish this roster would have us in good shape for October.

He would be a good pickup IMO.

Good post

Do you think that julien will put either danault or plek on the fourth line? Not to put 2 defensive issues at c. One i could see... not both

Our wingers are (not line combos, just showing how many we have). Max - one of Drouin/Chuck Lehkonen - Gallagher Byron - Shaw Hudon - Hemsky Thats four lines of offensive wingers The C, and LHD have huge holes.

No need for him. Unless its an absolute elite guy, there are lots of wingers on this team. Go Centre or Go LHD.

So Tavares is unrealistic, but Draisaitl is realistic? Got it.

ISS had him at 10 and five spots in the top 10 is huge..... its just as big a difference as 20 spots at the end of the first round.

TSN also thought Price was a guy taken too high, so I don't know what that means.

and in your dream the Oilers match on Draisaitl and trade RNH to another team looking for a centre (Columbus, Nashville, Islanders)....

Weber was leading in goals at one point this year after 20 games or something. How'd that work out. If ifs and buts were candy and nuts... ... Simply no crystal ball of knowing what Karlsson's full season would have been. Its also important to note that yes he was leading after 17 games, Subban missed the first 6 games that year in his contract dispute. and Subban's 38 points in 42 games (0.905 PPG) was better than Karlsson's 14 in 17 (0.823 PPG)

Oh brother.

Karlsson was going to win until he got injured. Nice Crystal ball you have there, since Karlsson only played 17 games that year.

#### OFF! Posting it once is one thing. Spamming the shit out of the board like you are doing, is being an asshole. It actually makes me hope your podcast fails spectacularly, and does not make me want to listen.

Are you actually going to contribute to this forum in a meaningful way or just spam your podcast as you have in all your posts so far? Asking for a friend.

Columbus thought we would take him cause everyone was saying that draft was Crosby then 4 players then everyone else in terms of tiers... so when we took Price it was "off the board"

Brule was from Vancouver, what would a draft being in Montreal have to do with picking him.