GDT: 2024 Summer Free Agency (July 1st)

[ReHabs]

I’m not sure why you’re surprised by this, Hughes is not going to panic and sign a bunch of players and block his prospects from filling spots.

Next year is going to be the final tank year, and it always was going to be.

Not an explicit tank but a "eh, let's see what happens", yes. I was totally wrong in my outlook the previous off-season. I really thought they should try to win with the axis around Suzuki-Caufield but Reinbacher, Hutson, Demidov and Slaf are the franchise's workhorses. We will sink or swim with them not with Suzuki-Caufield.

One more year of whatever and then we'll see.

I still think we can add someone to the top6, and I expect to see it happen. They offered a deal to Marchessault, that we know as a fact. Laine is right there for the taking, Necas and Zegras too maybe. We have a lot of picks in future drafts...

 

[Boss Man Hughes]

Panic? How long are we going to f***ing rebuild? The Sharks and Hawks have both added talent to their rosters. Surrounding their franchise players, what are we doing? Going for Hagens again? Suzukis about to be 30 years old and we won't start competing lol.

And they. like Detroit, will never win anything.

Panic? How long are we going to f***ing rebuild? The Sharks and Hawks have both added talent to their rosters. Surrounding their franchise players, what are we doing? Going for Hagens again? Suzukis about to be 30 years old and we won't start competing lol.

And they. like Detroit, will never win anything.

 

[Gaylord Q Tinkledink]

Problem is there is no spots for the kids

Also, what kids ? There's no one who really deserves a spot at this point

 

[Team_Spirit]

Did we just dodge a bullet?

Wizard of Oz line appreciation day ️

https://x.com/i/web/status/1807840065189826573

 

[GrandmaCookie]

I laugh when I hear the T word.
We weren't tanking last season what makes people think we will be tanking this season?
Circumstances led to our draft selection spot not tanking.
The previous year we were tanking we just weren't good enough at it.

Maybe we are going to use a new way to qualify the next season, if the management does not make corrections to improve the team for 2024-2025, without deliberately making it worse: Passive tanking.

Combine that with the fact that some teams will have improved in the Atlantic Division and you end up with a losing record, and a nice top 5 pick once again.

 

[larek]

Atleast a couple of them need to be gone

This team is still handcuffed by crap contracts and will be until names like Gallagher, Anderson, Dvorak and Armia are out the door.

 

[le_sean]

You guys are the ones who are not in touch with reality lol.

"Yeah next year is the year where we go big time hunting on the UFA market"

Because guys like Draisaitl and the others will be drooling at the idea of joining a team that is coming off 4 consecutive lottery pick. Makes total sense.
"Because St. Louis good coach"

Don't worry about my life pal. I've been completely MIA from these boards for the past 2+ years because I had better things to do than watch this crappy team play thrice a week.

Turns out I'll just be doing more of the same going forward. I just have myself to blame for hoping this summer would be interesting.

With a dumb fanbase like this I perfectly understand why this management isn't bothered with being stuck in a perpetual state of mediocrity.

Good luck with that

I’d say good riddance but I don’t even know who the f*** you are. You just showed up to complain one day.

 

[417]

Panic? How long are we going to f***ing rebuild? The Sharks and Hawks have both added talent to their rosters. Surrounding their franchise players, what are we doing? Going for Hagens again? Suzukis about to be 30 years old and we won't start competing lol.

Who? Lol
.

 

[HabsEstrie]

See

You guys are the ones who are not in touch with reality lol.

"Yeah next year is the year where we go big time hunting on the UFA market"

Because guys like Draisaitl and the others will be drooling at the idea of joining a team that is coming off 4 consecutive lottery pick. Makes total sense.
"Because St. Louis good coach"

Don't worry about my life pal. I've been completely MIA from these boards for the past 2+ years because I had better things to do than watch this crappy team play thrice a week.

Turns out I'll just be doing more of the same going forward. I just have myself to blame for hoping this summer would be interesting.

With a dumb fanbase like this I perfectly understand why this management isn't bothered with being stuck in a perpetual state of mediocrity.

Good luck with that

See ya in two years broheim

 

[Rapala]

We can simp

Problem is there is no spots for the kids

Not true.
We will simply cut a player free and pay out the year if it comes to that.
I have no high hopes for great returns on any of the candidates.

 

[No More Subban]

I’m not upset that we didn’t sign an older player. Let the kids play.

Same. I'm fully committed to our young prospects. I expect Beck/Mailloux to make the team. Still hoping we get rid of 1-2 bottom six guys.

 

[417]

So we don't do anything? Lomberg at 2x2, Lafferty, etc... Come on. Still the same shitty ass bottom 6.

So you wanna add more shitty ass bottom
6 players?

 

[Kimota]

Did we just dodge a bullet?

Wizard of Oz line appreciation day ️

https://x.com/i/web/status/1807840065189826573

f*** off, Marchessault.

 

[Skip Bayless]

Habs fans working 9 to 5's, hoping their team will be competitive one day, hoping for something more than a yee yee ass bottom 6.


20M worth of third liners on this god damn team when they hear about your feelings :

 

[Habs13]

Atleast a couple of them need to be gone

How?

 

[CHfan1]

I’m also happy Montreal stayed away from the long term contracts given out today. July 1st has always been a day when GM’s across the NHL make their biggest mistakes and today was no different, imo.

This rebuild was always going to take patience and it hasn’t even been that long. It was in February of 2022 (less than 2 1/2 years ago) that Hughes made his first significant move, replacing Ducharme with St. Louis. At that time the team had 8 wins in 45 games.

Since then, imo, this management has set Montreal on the right path. Of course it hasn’t been perfect, no rebuild is ,but they’ve been able to add a lot of quality players, especially through the draft and a couple good trades. They’ve also shown they have a strategy in place for the rebuild, adding players that will be able to grow together, while keeping a couple good veterans (Matheson, Savard) in place to make sure certain players aren’t taking on too much too quickly.

I expect this team to take another step forward next season. I expect Dach to return and fill that much needed 2nd line centre position, Caufield’s shooting % to improve, the defence to take another step forward as they get more experience, and Slafkovsky to be consistent and build off his 2nd half of last season. I wouldn’t be surprised if they were another 8-10 points better next season while cutting their goal differential in half from last season.

Also, even though they didn’t add any players as of now it’s still a long offseason. They can still add, make trades, and improve over the next few months.

 

[Boss Man Hughes]

f*** off, Marchessault.

Guy is a piece of shit, never wanted him.

 

[GrandmaCookie]

Slafkovsky just signed 60.8/8

 

[417]

You guys are the ones who are not in touch with reality lol.

"Yeah next year is the year where we go big time hunting on the UFA market"

Because guys like Draisaitl and the others will be drooling at the idea of joining a team that is coming off 4 consecutive lottery pick. Makes total sense.
"Because St. Louis good coach"

Don't worry about my life pal. I've been completely MIA from these boards for the past 2+ years because I had better things to do than watch this crappy team play thrice a week.

Turns out I'll just be doing more of the same going forward. I just have myself to blame for hoping this summer would be interesting.

With a dumb fanbase like this I perfectly understand why this management isn't bothered with being stuck in a perpetual state of mediocrity.

Good luck with that

Free agency isn't what it used to be, you don't build a roster with free agent signings…you can compliment it if you're already strong contender.

But otherwise, its a bunch of anchors…today made me even more sure of what Hughes and Gorton are doing.

 

[Guy Larose]

 

[HabsWhiteKnightLOL]

We can simp

Not true.
We will simply cut a player free and pay out the year if it comes to that.
I have no high hopes for great returns on any of the candidates.

Like who Dvorak Anderson Armia?

 

[Apoplectic Habs Fan]

There is some serious frickin drama queens here. FFS

Chicago signed TT and the corpse of Tyler Bertuzzi after gutting their entire team one yr ago.

Omg, get on phone

 

[sampollock]

ya
who cares.... get lost

f*** off, Marchessault

 

[CapSpace]

Thank you sweet baby Jesus we don't have MB anymore. Most signatures today are putrid. Hughes knows what he's doing. Next summer is gonna be it, not now.

 

[Guy Larose]