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SEALBound said:
I'd love to be a fly on the wall when he's a little tipsy around the boys.
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Ask and you shall receive....

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Anyone pencilling in Letang as 1st pairing is nuts, he should be in the platoon section of the 5,6,7 Defensmen. His drop off the last 2 years has been catastrophic. I would be absolutely shocked if any NHL team wants him in a trade that does not include a huge cap dump coming back. There is no way he has any value... well he shouldn't. There's this guy in Nashville that is pretty stupid. Montreal doesn't need him getting in the way of the young defenders they have coming up, he doesn't fit there, he's not a mentor type, considering he is still one of the most undisciplined emotional players on the ice at any given time. Buy him out, or LTIR him for the next 3 years.
 
Duffy13 said:
Anyone pencilling in Letang as 1st pairing is nuts, he should be in the platoon section of the 5,6,7 Defensmen. His drop off the last 2 years has been catastrophic. I would be absolutely shocked if any NHL team wants him in a trade that does not include a huge cap dump coming back. There is no way he has any value... well he shouldn't. There's this guy in Nashville that is pretty stupid. Montreal doesn't need him getting in the way of the young defenders they have coming up, he doesn't fit there, he's not a mentor type, considering he is still one of the most undisciplined emotional players on the ice at any given time. Buy him out, or LTIR him for the next 3 years.
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Or they could just keep playing him top pairing minutes as he helps with the tank, sells tickets, and can mentor upcoming youth.
 
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PensFutures said:
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I don't know if you've seen it, but Tom Segura does an amazing bit on Steven Seagal, making fun of how Seagal is basically an 'expert on everything.'

At one point, he's bullshitting by saying "they call that helicopter a skippy, because it sounds like skipskipskipskip when it's flying" (paraphrased the joke). I'm just imaging Sid doing that level of bullshit.

"That's the blue bellied tweety bird, you call tell because it's a bird with a blue belly and it goes 'tweet', and that one is the brown tailed flappy flapper. You can tell because it's got a brown tail and it's flapping its wings."

"okay Sid, sure, whatever you said, captain."
 
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This will sound fake, but I really do have a "friend of a friend is tight with Sid" level connection to some Crosby stories. They're all boring and wholesome. Like hanging out with childhood friends that work in construction supplies will lead to Sid asking all about how industrial building materials distribution works.

I would be shocked if something bad ever came out about him. He's just a nice guy.
 
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Empoleon8771 said:
After watching some more clips of Hallander, I think I'm fully supportive of penciling him in on the 3rd line immediately rather than expecting him to be a healthy scratch. His playstyle looks a lot like a Kapanen and Hornqvist hybrid, his puck carrying and offensive tendencies look extremely similar to Kapanen while he's also a net front guy like Hornqvist. That's pretty much exactly what the 3rd line needs, so I'd be planning on him being the 3rd line LW going into the year.

Something I'd be advocating for is selling Rakell while bumping Tomasino into the top-6. I was going to type out a question asking where Heinen is going to fit in the lineup, because I think he's a guy you want to keep to see if he can bounce back and provide some positive value next year. But you can solve that issue with selling Rakell and bumping Tomasino to Malkin's line. This gives you the chance to pump up both Heinen's value and Tomasino's value while also selling high on Rakell.

I already posted this, but my goal is to enter next year with at least 4 forwards and 2 defenseman 24 or younger in their lineup. The goal should be at minimum Koivunen, McGroarty, Tomasino, Ponomarev, Pickering and Brunicke in regular and notable roles, with only replacing one of those guys for another young guy. If they can acquire someone like Byram or another RFA to be one of those 24 or younger guys, I'm all for that as well.

The goal lineup I have for next year is something like gaining 2 1sts for selling Karlsson and Rakell and running with:

Koivunen-Crosby-Rust
McGroarty-Malkin-Tomasino
Hallander-Novak-Heinen
Dewar-Lizotte-Ponomarev
Hayes

Byram-Letang
Pickering-Walker
Graves-Brunicke
Shea-Kolyachonok

Jarry-Blomqvist
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Id love that lineup right there if we could swing it. I'd happly move on from Rakell to make Byram + Walker happen. I'd probably keep Brunicke down and ride Timmins in that scenario too.
 
Empoleon8771 said:
After watching some more clips of Hallander, I think I'm fully supportive of penciling him in on the 3rd line immediately rather than expecting him to be a healthy scratch. His playstyle looks a lot like a Kapanen and Hornqvist hybrid, his puck carrying and offensive tendencies look extremely similar to Kapanen while he's also a net front guy like Hornqvist. That's pretty much exactly what the 3rd line needs, so I'd be planning on him being the 3rd line LW going into the year.

Something I'd be advocating for is selling Rakell while bumping Tomasino into the top-6. I was going to type out a question asking where Heinen is going to fit in the lineup, because I think he's a guy you want to keep to see if he can bounce back and provide some positive value next year. But you can solve that issue with selling Rakell and bumping Tomasino to Malkin's line. This gives you the chance to pump up both Heinen's value and Tomasino's value while also selling high on Rakell.

I already posted this, but my goal is to enter next year with at least 4 forwards and 2 defenseman 24 or younger in their lineup. The goal should be at minimum Koivunen, McGroarty, Tomasino, Ponomarev, Pickering and Brunicke in regular and notable roles, with only replacing one of those guys for another young guy. If they can acquire someone like Byram or another RFA to be one of those 24 or younger guys, I'm all for that as well.

The goal lineup I have for next year is something like gaining 2 1sts for selling Karlsson and Rakell and running with:

Koivunen-Crosby-Rust
McGroarty-Malkin-Tomasino
Hallander-Novak-Heinen
Dewar-Lizotte-Ponomarev
Hayes

Byram-Letang
Pickering-Walker
Graves-Brunicke
Shea-Kolyachonok

Jarry-Blomqvist
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I don't like Tomasino as a de facto top 6 guy, even at this stage of the team's retooling.

Much prefer the idea of signing a vet top 6er to a short term deal if we were to trade Rakell, especially with 2 rookies already pencilled into scoring lines.
 
If we move Rakell, forward group becomes pretty straightforward. Probably add someone like Brandon Saad on a short-term deal to play with Malkin.

McGroarty - Crosby - Rust
X - Malkin - Koivunen
Hallander - Novak - Tomasino
Heinen - Lizotte - Acciari
Dewar/Hayes
 
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