There are very few significant free agent deals that don’t come back to bite the signing team in the rear end. If we want to win, I would suggest we use our precious cap space on acquiring an elite goaltender. We have a plethora of young, promising and inexpensive forwards and defencemen in our system. I see no potential championship level goaltender on the horizon.
There was pressure on the team to draft Wright. I would suggest that the road to success is more certain if we can resist these extraneous ‘pressures’.
I don't disagree, but this is Montreal, and our owner is Molson. He remembers when he hired Cunneyworth, and he remembers that 1 (it was 1, right?) game where we had no french player on the roster under MB. That's not happening again, no matter what we think.
Is it possible please to stop referring to french speaking Quebecers as "french". We are not from France.
The fans of this team are so over the top with this tribal BS it is not even funny. I have never heard we need a local guy from the western teams, never.
Perhaps Molson and the fan base will tire of having won only two cups in the last half century and none in now three decades. I would suggest that most of the team’s fan base were born after the last dynasty. One of the reasons this proud franchise has become largely irrelevant is that it allowed outside ‘pressures’ to dictate its personnel decisions.
What a joke, I guess the icon that represented Ryan Smyth in Edmonton had nothing to do about where he was from. Believing otherwise is at best uneducated...
You haven't been listening, then.
I guess you didn't notice how people didn't care about Scandella and Matheson until the media pointed out that they were local and could speak french. 90% of people in this province just don't care about "local", they care about "french".
Well, I would guestimate that 95% of Habs fans didn't even know that Scandella and Matheson were "local" at the time.
Dubois will not come cheep. I seriously doubt that he will be worth the premium that many here are prepared to pay for the return of the 'Prodigal Son'.
I think a bigger question is whether you would be interested in committing to this player (whether $7 million or more) if he wasn't a home town hero?
Personnally I'm not prepared to pay a premium and don't care wether he's french or local or not, but I definitely think he can be a part of a winning top 6. I'd pay a fair price, probably somewhere around 7M$/year long term
I’d also like to remind everyone that we have just “realized” that our franchise is operating in a socialist system. Profit sharing etc.
This is Hfboards. If a thread isn't derailed, it's not a thread.
some would even say the goodest
