GDT: 2024 Summer Free Agency (July 1st)

[FLHabs]

Watch Ylonen become a solid top 9 forward with the Bolts haha. Not mad though, it is what it is

 

[le_sean]

Watch Ylonen become a solid top 9 forward with the Bolts haha. Not mad though, it is what it is

He couldn’t do it in Montreal. I can’t expect him to do it for a Cup contender

 

[HabsWhiteKnightLOL]

- kovacevic trade
- ufa signing today for laval
- slaf/ghule extension
- attempt/non-attempt at ufa todays
- plans for the summer (active on the trade market?)
- invite at rookie development camp?

of course we will mostly get vague answer, but this should be the topics of the day.

- No many cares about a 7th dman
- This does not need a pc for that
- He's not gonna say openly if things are going good.
- ''we tried to look at some but we did not like the price and we were not ready for that step ''.
- '' we are always looking to make our team better ''
- we will invite rookies like every seasons

Here is ur PC

 

[GrandmaCookie]

He couldn’t do it in Montreal. I can’t expect him to do it for a Cup contender

Maybe he pulls a Drouin

 

[Habby4Life]

Hab fans Friday - plan the parade!!
Hab fans Monday - the sky is falling!!

You can make this stuff up.

 

[Guess]

Excellent for the Habs, the other rebuilding teams get better, we don't waste our cap on overpaid, overaged vets and have a better chance at another top pick.

The core hasn't shown they're ready to compete yet, and we still have most of our prospects in the pipeline.

Getting a youngish Necas or Laine (if we're confident we can work on his mental stuff) would make more sense for us.

 

[HabsWhiteKnightLOL]

I wonder whos gonna coach Laval and whos gonna coach our PP

 

[Andrei79]

Maybe he pulls a Drouin

Produce at a barely higher pace despite two 100 point linemates?

 

[Kents polished head]

Yeah because what we want to replace is exactly what they give. That’ll make us a better team. Can’t wait to see your plan in fruition.

Aren't you one of those preaching being "patient" with the rebuild and that "at some point, improvement is going to come from within".

If the improvement from within is still nowhere to be found after 4 years, and you need to spend extra money to improve on duds like Dvorak, what does that tell you about the state of this "rebuild", Copernicus?

 

[Gaylord Q Tinkledink]

CLb is the only eastern team below MTL.

Majority of the East has kicked deck chairs outside of Washington. Whether that makes them better, who knows

I get people want out of a rebuild but today, with who is on the market, isnt that day

Lots of time to shuffle the bottom 6

They want to push forward and improve.

That's why I said they must be focused on a trade, or trades.

Majority of the east was already better than Montreal, which is why they finished 2nd last in the East.

Chicago has a strong chance to pass them and San Jose might.

Still a lot of time for them to improve, but day 1 and the busiest day, but they stayed pretty much silent.

Maybe he'll give some insight into his plans at the conference.

 

[JianYang]

Unless they get hot early in the season, there’s no doubt we will be at the bottom again.

The division is really competitive. They ended up last by two points, but had a crazy amount of points in OT, top of the league.

In ROW they are 6 wins away from Ottawa. Can’t expect everything to be the same again, but I guess injuries could change the story a bit in the hierarchy of the Atlantic.

Dach is pretty much an addition that can't be ignored since he missed the whole year.

They didn't really replace monahan though, but the young defense will have an additional year under their belt as well.

 

[Miller Time]

Just pointing it out where the roster is at the moment...

The Habs current roster scored a total of 205 NHL goals last season (including Barre-Boulet's 6 goals). The Caps scored the fewest in the East with 220 (Habs scored 236 goals fewest in the Atlantic).

Barring additional moves and some impressive growth from ??? would be prepared for another long season.

Dach not missing 80games
Newhook not missing 1/3 of the season
Slaf maintaining close to 2nd 1/2
Caufield not having career worst sh %
Xhekaj, Barron, Strubble making small strides

None of these are big stretches, and each one would equate to increased goals.

Injuries will happen. Regression is possible.

But on the whole, it's a pretty safe bet that the roster as is should increase its scoring output from last year based only on averages for U25 established NHLers progressing.

On the bright side, it is good to see them avoid some of today's silly contracts.

Hell yeah!

And I wanted us to be aggressive chasing a Stamkos, or pitching Monahan on 3-4yrs....

Or add depth in a Trenin or Perron.

But not at any cost. Sticking to the overall plan and opportunistically upgrading vs being impatient and forcing the issue is exactly what this org. needs to do to get where we want to go.

Future is bright

 

[GrandmaCookie]

Produce at a barely higher pace despite two 100 point linemates?

barely, lmao.

 

[Rapala]

Watch Ylonen become a solid top 9 forward with the Bolts haha. Not mad though, it is what it is

I really doubt it.
His game would have to undergo a huge transformation.
Jon Cooper expects a lot from his role players.

 

[yianik]

Sarcasm aside, I seriously doubt the Habs offer was comparable to NSH. Habs offers was probably 2-3 years with a higher AAV but less money overall, which kind of matter for a 33 years old signing what is likely his last deal.

Probably another team or two offered better deals. Look, I get the player saying this as he lives in Quebec or may retire in Quebec and for sure has family there.

Truth is quite a few Quebecois don't want to play in Montreal.

I guess I just get annoyed hearing it knowing it's usually just not true.

 

[FinnHab]

Ya, no.

Bergevin acquired Drouin to lead the charge, which was a straight up mistake.
If the Habs pick up Laine it's to give a dry run to their top6, while the goal isn't to be world beater next season, the team still want more than one decent line

Im ok with this experiment if Laine comes via extra cheap contract. Regressing pp specialist, absolutely useless in 5v5 game. Thats what he is and always been.

 

[Kents polished head]

I'm looking at teams like San Jose, Chicago and Anaheim right now, and it's not even out of the question that we actually finish lower in the standings next year than we did this season

 

[The Great Weal]

Next offseason should be a fun one for us.
-Another high 1st
-FLA 1st could be better than expected with half of their top 4 gone and Reinhart going back to his 30 goal pace
-Petry/Allen/Dvorak/Armia off the books
-Anderson/Gallagher buy outs
-Full year of development for Mailloux/Reinbacher/Hutson and Demidov comes over
-Could see Price contract getting traded since it will be in its final year

All our top prospects will be in the NHL and we will have a shit ton of money to add impact players. I'm going to be judging Hughes based on next year.

 

[Miller Time]

Dach is pretty much an addition that can't be ignored since he missed the whole year.

They didn't really replace monahan though, but the young defense will have an additional year under their belt as well.

Healthy Dach & healthy Dvorak will be a net upgrade at C from opening day last year.

While both have injury concerns, neither are as pronounced as Monahan's were this time last year.

Suzuki - Dach - Dvorak - Evans

If each plays 65+ games, Habs will be middle of the pack at C

I'm looking at teams like San Jose, Chicago and Anaheim right now, and it's not even out of the question that we actually finish lower in the standings next year than we did this season

Same takes were flying last summer... This one will age about the same

 

[Sasha Orlov]

Next offseason should be a fun one for us.
-Another high 1st
-FLA 1st could be better than expected with half of their top 4 gone and Reinhart going back to his 30 goal pace
-Petry/Allen/Dvorak/Armia off the books
-Anderson/Gallagher buy outs
-Full year of development for Mailloux/Reinbacher/Hutson and Demidov comes over
-Could see Price contract getting traded since it will be in its final year

All our top prospects will be in the NHL and we will have a shit ton of money to add impact players. I'm going to be judging Hughes based on next year.

Leon Draisaitl

 

[HabsWhiteKnightLOL]

Next offseason should be a fun one for us.
-Another high 1st
-FLA 1st could be better than expected with half of their top 4 gone and Reinhart going back to his 30 goal pace
-Petry/Allen/Dvorak/Armia off the books
-Anderson/Gallagher buy outs
-Full year of development for Mailloux/Reinbacher/Hutson and Demidov comes over
-Could see Price contract getting traded since it will be in its final year

All our top prospects will be in the NHL and we will have a shit ton of money to add impact players. I'm going to be judging Hughes based on next year.

add Evans off the books , dude so soft and made of glass

 

[Kents polished head]

Healthy Dach & healthy Dvorak will be a net upgrade at C from opening day last year.

While both have injury concerns, neither are as pronounced as Monahan's were this time last year.

Suzuki - Dach - Dvorak - Evans

If each plays 65+ games, Habs will be middle of the pack at C


Same takes were flying last summer... This one will age about the same

We finished exactly at the same spot last season as two years ago.

 

[MXD]

I really doubt it.
His game would have to undergo a huge transformation.
Jon Cooper expects a lot from his role players.

He's gonna play the exact same role Barré-Boulet played for them last season.

 

[le_sean]

Aren't you one of those preaching being "patient" with the rebuild and that "at some point, improvement is going to come from within".

If the improvement from within is still nowhere to be found after 4 years, and you need to spend extra money to improve on duds like Dvorak, what does that tell you about the state of this "rebuild", Copernicus?

It’s f***ing 3pm on July 1st. If I’m Copernicus, you’re Christopher Columbus thinking he found India by going West.

I’m assuming you’re one of those that thought Bergevin wasn’t that bad.

 

[Miller Time]

We finished exactly at the same spot last season as two years ago.

Well ahead of the teams you listed, no?

& if you don't think that Slaf, Dach, Newhook, Guhle, Barron, CC, Suzuki, Xhekaj will improve at all, then