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Commandant

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  1. Yeah i was just coming here to post the Pribyl numbers. 1g 2a is impressive, even if its against a minnow like Latvia.
  2. What? #11 has been his number for over a year now.
  3. He's gonna play tonight. Everything I'm hearing is that he's been one of the best D in their practices... is playing "lights out" and is a surefire bet to make the team. He's a legit contender for Captain.
  4. The way they are playing... we might not need to negotiate. He might be 2 years and out.
  5. I mentionned the guys who need the experience... the core of our team going forward and the guys on the way up. Price, Subban, Eller, Pacioretty, Desharnais, White, Diaz, Emelin, Weber... heck the playoff experience would probably do Louis Leblanc some good as well. Guys like Palushaj are also likely to be up with the team (even if not playing) as the Bulldogs don't look to be making the playoffs this year. This experience will be valuable. How valuable? How likely to make the playoffs? What is the value we can get for dumping guys? How much higher would we draft? These are all questions to ask in February when we see the standings then. But I think there is some value to this team. You just have to assess how much.
  6. Here's the thing... all that stuff is talking about the past. If you notice my post, I specifically looked at deals signed in the summer of 2011. Why? Because if we dump Gionta and/or Cammalleri as has been suggested they need to be replaced. The suggestions for replacing them is via UFA. The Selanne and Whitney deals are for 38 and 39 year old players. I don't think they really factor into the equation here. If the premise is a dump and rebuild, we aren't looking at those guys. The contracts that the Sedins got, that Franzen got, they are irrelevant to building this team into the future. Inflation has happened, and will continue to happen. You aren't dipping into the the 2008 or 2009 FA market... you are looking at the 2012 one. And what players signed for in 2011 will have far more impact. If you dump Gionta tomorrow, you get 5 million dollars to spend in the summer. What will you be able to purchase for 5 million? A 50-55 pt guy. Sure, Gionta is injured right now and has not played well this year, but he's also been our leading goal scorer for the last two seasons. For 5 million do you really think you can do better. Consider also that Montreal always has to pay a premium to get FAs. This is the reality of a higher tax rate, the toughest media market in hockey, the french/english bullshit that we are now seeing in a coaching change, the laws forcing your children to go to a French School if you move them here, etc... etc... Its the reality, and everytime someone signs in Montreal, whether it was Houle, Savard, Gainey, or Gauthier doing the contract we have always complained about overpayment. So the question remains... for 5 million dollars, do you really think you can improve on Gionta? Edit: I missed one of those contracts... I admit Fleischmann is a steal, but he was cheap due to some serious health complications. It was a risk, and good on Dale Tallon for what looks like the steal of the summer. Right now when we assess the summer signings, in terms of value for dollar i think Fleisch, Ian White, and Erik Cole are the top three.
  7. Wait 5 million should be 70 pts and 6 million should be a ppg or more? Summer Spending. Ville Leino 4.5 million - 53 pts (only one good season in his career). Brooks Laich 4.5 million - 48, 59, 53 pts over his last three years Tim Connolly 4.75 million - 42, 65, 47, 40 pts over his last 4 years. Is a major injury risk Erik Cole 4.5 million - 52 pts; 16 (1/2 season); 42 pts; 51 pts last 4 years Brad Richards got one of those cap hit reducing contracts... cap hit 6.67 million.... actual salary 12 million, 12 million, 9 mill, 8.5mill, 8.5mill, 7mill, and then 1 million for each of the last 3 years.
  8. crosby, markov. We'll have the most talented IR squad in the league.
  9. Just because the team is unlikely to compete for the Cup, doesn't mean that making the playoffs has no value and we should dump everything. Playoff experience for young guys like Patches, Eller, Emelin, Diaz, White, Desharnais, and even Subban and Price has intangible value. I firmly believe that you have to lose before you can win in this league, and there is no substitute to experiencing the pressure cooker of the playoffs. It may not be measureable, but its real IMO. Now balancing the likelihood of making the playoffs, the value of your UFAs in trades, likeliness of re-signing value of the higher pick, these are all factors and something the GM has to assess. I just don't think you can really say that a first or second round loss has zero value to the team.
  10. Then we have a bigger problem than a bad GM with his ass on the hotseat making panic moves.
  11. If your premise is right, and Gauthier has his ass on the line.... then there is little chance that ownership lets him make a drastic move without it being approved by Molson.
  12. Whatever dude.... I get it... its always the coaches' fault, and random people on hockey message boards could do a much better job than the guys who have been life long NHLers and Pro level coaches for the last 10 years in Cunneyworth; or 20+ years in Martin. Not just you, but there are thousands out here.
  13. Moen has been one of our best players all season and AK sucked tonight. Moen is usually a very defensively responsible guy, but he made one mistake tonight. If he had scored a goal on that shift instead, would you still be questionning his ice time? Its cherry picking stats... there is a different coaching decision that you disagree with every night. Martin's gone....and yet we are still into the minutiae of coaching, and the little individual decisions over the course of a game.
  14. David Desharnais. 2 Faceoffs won... 13 faceoffs lost tonight.
  15. Kaberle needs to be dumped? he's been one of our best players since acquired. And we are gonna dump Diaz and Weber too. And then Cammy and Gionta need to go. Oh I get it... this is so we can all complain when St. Denis gets 25 minutes a night and Engqvist and Blunden 20 minutes each in 2012-13
  16. Sure and if we're healthy... one is a fouth liner; and the other is in the pressobx. Guess what, we''re missing an entire line.
  17. Team Canada Goal Brendan Gallagher assisted by Michael Bournival
  18. Scotty Bowman learned how to speak French. That should be the only requirement, that the new hire is willing to learn the language; not that they need to know it in advance. It works for the English national football team who hired Fabio Capello, an Italian who had very weak English skills 4 years ago. Now he does pressers in English. The team with the biggest language issue in all of European Soccer is Barcelona. They hired a dutchman in Frank Rijjkard in 2003 and made him learn Catalan. This worked for them too, and Catalan/Spanish in Spain is similar to the French/English thing here.
  19. Franson was 5th on the Predators Defence in total minutes And 7th in Minutes per game... Bouillion was ahead of him on the depth chart but only played half the season. Blum replaced Bouillion and also averaged more minutes per game than Franson. Franson was clearly the Predators #6 defenceman, used mainly to play PP on the second unit, and given very sheltered ES minutes (only 13 ES minutes per game, and virtually no PKing time). http://www.nhl.com/i...wName=timeOnIce
  20. The breakout continued to be a problem. I'm not liking these new homerun passes all the time. Its not working, and when the pass isn't open we have guys trying to skate it out and being stupid like Campoli last game and Moen this game.
  21. Yes, yes... its all so clear now. Martin was the problem all along.
  22. The third line is gonna get a regular shift.... you can't just "cut their ES time". You can't run 2 lines out there. its easy to look at the raw numbers at intermission and say X should play more than Y... much different when you are behind the bench and have to tap the guy on the shoulder seeing when in the period the penalties came, who was tired, who wasn't, etc...
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