GDT: 2024 Summer Free Agency (July 1st)

[Team_Spirit]

That Carrier deal lol

Kovacevic for a 4th was cheap.

 

[sampollock]

Fans aren’t forced to go to games. Nor are they forced to even watch them on TV. I for one at least find the games entertaining. Certainly more entertaining than the garbage we saw under Bergevin.

your right
but you know hab fans are so loyal, live for this team.
I will go to EDM again this year, was hoping to go to MTL this spring just to see, but not now.

 

[Mrb1p]

The Sabres haven't made the playoffs in 13 years, we haven't made it in 3 years. The Avs made the playoffs one time in a span of 7 years before becoming a consistent playoff team and ultimately a contender. This isn't going to be resolved in 3 years, and signing flawed players like Toffoli/Monahan to outrageous contracts just to get us from being a bottom 5 team to a bottom 12 one isn't solving anything.

7 out of 10 years is pretty pathetic.

I was hoping the streak ended this year but it actively looks like we're back to being the worst team in the league. Noice.

 

[Le Tricolore]

Not one reporter had the guts to ask any tough questions. Gutless.

Fans pay 1000's of dollars a year to fill that arena and are now facing another season where half the home games will be totally meaningless.

They are very lucky this isn't Minnesota or Nashville.

what do you want to be asked? The team is in the middle of a rebuild as we've known for years. They won't turn into contenders overnight while signing shitty players to even worse contracts.

The team is exactly where it should be right now. They're taking things slowly and not rushing anything.

The team's most important players for the future are all under 25. It's fine.

 

[Captain Mountain]

- We are not trading a prospect for another prospect (sideway move)
- Trades were tried, but didn’t work
- Confortable with our top 6
- Growth to be organic

Unless Hughes as become a smokescreen kind of guy, this is the roster we should have in September.

I'm not expecting many roster changes, but Hughes is absolutely a smokescreen kind of guy (Demidov interest being the most recent example).

 

[jellybeans]

Love that Hughes is staying the course next year on this day is where we start moving forward let the kids evolve this year and with Demidov in Montreal and hopefully somehow get rid of some of those bad contracts this year future looks good because we have a patient management.

 

[tazsub3]

On the contrary to many here I believe the lack of action is Hughes waiting out teams and is keeping cap space for a trade .

 

[Gravity]

Hughes wanted to sign Marchesseault for max 3 years.

 

[GrandmaCookie]

On the contrary to many here I believe the lack of action is Hughes waiting out teams and is keeping cap space for a trade .

I rather Hughes keep the cap space to unload a bad contract at TDL and steal a 1st or something than waste it on a anchor contract for a vet that won't make us more competitive in the long-term and barely in the short term. No panicking plan B move like Bergevin.

 

[McGuires Corndog]

Plenty of action can happen before camps shut down.

No worries about the UFA's the reality is I was only interested in bolstering our weak ass bottom.
I was not expecting anything else.

I get what you’re saying, in an ideal world we would do that.

I still think it’s too early in the rebuild to worry about the bottom 6. Championship caliber teams are built from the top down, bottom 6 players are the easiest to acquire and trade for. Just look how many MB acquired (and trades were haaaard).

You build solid core

Slaf-Suzuki-Demidov
Caufield-Dach-Martone(or any 2025 pick)

Guhle-Mailloux
Hutson-Reinbacher


Than you use picks and UFA to acquire the less expensive components to plug holes.

 

[ROEN]

So happy about Marchesault and Perron signing with the Habs as future advisors to the general manager in the next 5 years ...

#Lecavalier #Lapointe

 

[Estimated_Prophet]

Not one reporter had the guts to ask any tough questions. Gutless.

Fans pay 1000's of dollars a year to fill that arena and are now facing another season where half the home games will be totally meaningless.

They are very lucky this isn't Minnesota or Nashville.

So they should sign sh*tty players to sh*tty contracts who do not fit the rebuild and block playing time for our prospects....ok lol.

Fans can make their own decision about where they want to spend their money and are not held captive and forced to do so. Take a breath and pop that snot bubble kiddo, you are grossly overacting and don't appear to understand the process at all.

 

[larek]

7 out of 10 years is pretty pathetic.

I was hoping the streak ended this year but it actively looks like we're back to being the worst team in the league. Noice.

Yes rebuild but there has to be some marked improvement in. The standings soon
Only way I'm ok with bad season is if we get another no.1

 

[OnTheRun]

Hughes wanted to sign Marchesseault for max 3 years.

They made it clear they weren't going to sign anyone mid/long terms. All theirs targets (minus Kane who never made it to market) got waaaaaay more years than the Habs were willing to give.

 

[ROEN]

7 out of 10 years is pretty pathetic.

I was hoping the streak ended this year but it actively looks like we're back to being the worst team in the league. Noice.

Lord give me Martone or McQueen

 

[red devil]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1807878979975598568

 

[Gaylord Q Tinkledink]

MTL is the 4th team with the most cap space, I think they are still looking at trades including Laine and Ehlers.

Ehlers is gross. Easy pass on his dumb ass.

Laine probably comes with a sweetener, so maybe him.

Habs should be looking to take on bad contracts with a 1, or 2 left for more assets.

Depending on Trouba, Hughes should get in there and see if they can convince Trouba to waive to come to Montreal, so Montreal gets assets for taking him on. Then they retain on him and get more assets.

 

[sampollock]

Ehlers is gross. Easy pass on his dumb ass.

Laine probably comes with a sweetener, so maybe him.

Habs should be looking to take on bad contracts with a 1, or 2 left for more assets.

Depending on Trouba, Hughes should get in there and see if they can convince Trouba to waive to come to Montreal, so Montreal gets assets for taking him on. Then they retain on him and get more assets.

Laine yes for me.
but it would not surprise me that KH does zip and holds this coin for next year or 12 years from now. lol

 

[VirginiaMtlExpat]

On the contrary to many here I believe the lack of action is Hughes waiting out teams and is keeping cap space for a trade .

That's how I see it. One of the few teams with cap space with the means to spend it, while championing Monahan-type trades that bring in draft choices or cost-retained vets like Laine or maybe Trouba.

Or cultivating options to send the likes of Gallagher the other way.

 

[Gaylord Q Tinkledink]

Bruins sign Tufte.

Likely takes the same path as Brazeau and becomes a decent bottom 6 player for Boston.

Hopefully in October there have been some trades.

 

[Gravity]

Draft an elite 1C then next season.

 

[HuGo Sham]

personally not frustrated at all. HuGO have been clear they're avoiding term and I get it. Dvorak and Armia are gone in a year but Anderson and Gally remain boat anchors.
They cleaned out some clutter with Ylonen, Norlinder,...and I think they still need to rebuild bottom 6.
But as much as I wanted Carrier or Carrick, I wasn't going to give Carrier 6 years and Pezz is essentially Carrick.
I don't think habs are done. I think some trades are coming. They still want grit and a scoring winger for Dach

 

[red devil]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1807881021758571000

 

[GrandmaCookie]

Lord give me Martone or McQueen

Those who complain about how the first day of the off-season went will be the first to make the victory dance when we draft one of these with our 2025 top 5 draft pick.

 

[Gravity]

The entirety of the "organic" progression of the youth depends on the health and development of Kirby Dach.