Lovett's Magnatones

I would add the NMC clauses are very unfair to Canadian teams, especially Winnipeg. Nobody wants to play in Winnipeg.

Radulov signs in Dallas 5/30.

FIRETHISMAN

GarbageBin signs more garbage. Another retirement deal for a journeyman bandaid boy. He's good for 7-10 goals and 25 plus on LTIR.

Why don't you Google? He's got an August birthday, and the season starts in October, last I checked.

Typo, 31...does anybody outside of Montreat believe he's the "greatest goalie in the world?" Murray - 2 cups Bob - 2 Vezinas Lundqvist - Won a head to head series; fans also believe he's the best in the world, and have been telling anybody that will listen for years. Rask - Has a Vezina, worse head to head record. I would say Price is in a group of four or five elite goalies. As for injuries, he missed an entire year, the end of two playoffs, can't play back to backs or two in three nights. Greg Wyshynski makes a good comparison to Lundqvist and his idiotic deal: "All of this is true. And if Carey Price were 27 instead of 31 when this contract starts, perhaps it’s easier to swallow. But he’s going to be the same age that Lundqvist was when he starter his seven-year extension with the Rangers. Three years into it, Lundqvist posted his most ordinary season in the NHL with a .910 save percentage, failing to garner a single vote for the Vezina for the first time in his career. There was less talk about Lundqvist as a dominant goalie than there was about trying to convince him to accept a trade in the near future." All in all, these goalies and their monster deals are like trophy wifes-simply not worth the trouble, and a nice, normal wife will be less of a headache at half the price. Frankly, with this deal and the Oshie deal, it's hard not to think there's another round of buyouts coming with the CBA. To be a complete cynic, GarbageBin said “We’re going to make sure he finishes as a Montreal Canadien and to me that’s a big thing.” Why? He hasn't won a god damned thing besides a second round series against the Bruins. Who cares? This group of Habs isn't going down in the books, Price included.

Just another day in this lifestyle.

Idiotic game plan, innit? Give up the organization's premier prospect that fills a great need to get what you can get for free.

As a player in this life, we all have to do dirt. But I never turned my guns on somebody that wasn't in the game. Only God can judge me.

DON downvotes any post he doesn't agree with. That's ok. I down voted 15 of his posts today, the max. I'll fix his wagon.

You know what? Who cares? Bergevin has never landed anybody really good in free agency and can't trade for what we need. Failed regime. If he saved money on Price's deal, Bergevin would blow it on third line grinders, second pairing dmen, and turds. Assuming that any solid NHL goalie costs 4-6 million at the cheapest.

It's pretty effing ridiculous they're hamstringing the team in maybe its last year to make some real noise to break the bank on a 32 year old, oft injured, never won nuthin' goalie who will be four seasons away from his best year.

One thing I really give Bergevin credit for is that people are loyal to him. The organization never leaks, unless it's a big order of business like the Subban trade, contrasted with the slow drip of leaks during the Burke/Nonis era of the Leafs. Of course, if I was Sylvain "Job for life" Lefevbre, I would be loyal too.

Maybe we're figuring it wrong and Petry-Alzner are going to be the first pairing?

I laud him for that goal. You have to think big. Sounds like Trump saying "we will win so much, we will get tired of all the winning." But he lost sight of what he had and didn't make the final steps when the team was close. I remember the early deadline days when he sat on his thumbs to create a teachable moment. I also remember complaining about DD, Plekanec, and Eller at center. Those guys (at the time) are better than what we have now by a mile. I have this theory on GMs, that the further they get from their hire, the more they lose their vision and turn inward. When he signs players like Byron Froese that he scouted in Chicago, it makes it seem like he's stuck in the hey-day of the Western Conference. Then, the other theory I have, is when GMs take over a new team, they can spend up to two years fixing obvious mistakes. These moves go over with the fans, as they should, but in the long term, scouting/development/results become the yard stick. As Michel Therrien would say, MB vs a real deal GM like Peter Chiarelli, Ray Shero, or Stan Bowman is "mens against boys." My fear is that the Habs have become just another crappy Canadian team. It's easy to envision a poor man's Vancouver where we try to win with Weber and Carey Price when they're a billion years old.

Just wait until 2021 when Weber is washed up, Alzner looks like Murray Baron, Shaw is on permanent LTIR, and fans are still talking about how Carey Price was worth 11 million in 2015...

To be fair, Morrow has a one way deal. We're assuming he's going to be waived. Holland has a two way deal that turns into a one way deal in the second year. I wonder if Bergevin is just trolling the fan base now? It's not enough to sign fifty dweebs a year to fill the 4th line/#6. Now he has to fill them with our rivals rejects. I hate this man!

So Bergevin gets a Boston reject in the Morrow signing. Then a Toronto reject with Peter Holland. Logically...the next signing is Chris Neil?

TURD

He didn't replace Emelin because we didn't need another Emelin...unless we're talking about purely physical play, where Alzner can't help us. This is what happens when a team doesn't develop players, they take on another team's turds to get one or two good years of a need that should be filled from within.

MB: "Hey, I just got out from a terrible 4.5 million dollar cap hit. Oh, look!"

I think it's fair to say this is the inevitable part of a GMs tenure where he starts making deals that are just bad, ostensibly to hold onto his job. But at this point, is anybody surprised Bergevin still wants a team that wins games 2-1?

Maybe Julien is thinking that pairing would be like Seidenberg-Chara? I suppose if they don't sign Markov, it's 1.25 million off the cap. I don't know where he fits now, especially for 6 million.

Per Aaron Ward, who adds "unofficially," referencing the 12 PM start time to free agency. Money believed to be 5/4.5. This is exactly what this team doesn't need. Markov good as gone, imo.

I was hoping for dlbalr to chime in, very interested in the answer. I know there have been a few players like Vermette and Ryan Smyth that got traded at the deadline and resigned with their old teams.