G Cayden Primeau (2017, 199th, MTL)

[Lebowski]

Either primeau or price

price is in for next 4-6 yrs
primeau cannot wait that long

trade price for 1 LHD and 1st round...

Because goalie prospects are absolute can't miss 9 times out of 10, right?

In any case, Cayden has a couple years to spend in the AHL first. Then a couple years as a back-up. Then maybe a few years in a 1a/1b scenario.

The timing, assuming Cayden does turn into an elite goalie, couldn't be any better. And if he proves to be starter material sooner and we're somehow forced to pick one between the two, we can cross that bridge at that point. Might end up with a Luongo/Schneider situation, but that didn't turn out half-bad for the Canucks.

 

[Kudo Shinichi]

 

[Brownies]

"I'm not a stat watcher or using numbers to make a case, but here are my arguments all based on numbers."

Man, you’d be right telling that of 99 percent of posters around here, but Montreal watches prospects more than pretty much anyone in the Habs board. You may disagree with his opinion, but please of all people don’t accuse him of stat watching.

 

[Stive Morgan]

Man, you’d be right telling that of 99 percent of posters around here, but Montreal watches prospects more than pretty much anyone in the Habs board. You may disagree with his opinion, but please of all people don’t accuse him of stat watching.

montreal has probably seen more of Primeau than anyone else on HF

 

[Marc the Habs Fan]

3 high quality starts so far in his AHL career. Save percentage above .940 so far. Very promising.

 

[montreal]

He made some big saves tonight, perhaps his best game of the early season.

 

[montreal]

Primeau continues to impress, it was the first game he gave up more then 2 goals but was outstanding, if not for him it would easily have been 5-0 or worse as Laval waited until some point in the 2nd period to wake up and start to hockey. Primeau made some huge saves, I didn't see the 2nd goal he gave up but have seen every other goal he's given up this year so far and none have been weak. Of course it's really early but he's so far outplaying the vet Lindgren that with the way the team is struggling to score more then 2 goals, the coaching staff might not be able to continue rotating the two and instead start giving Primeau the bulk of the starts.

 

[Petr Cejka]

What about giving him chance for several games in the main team? He seems to be too good for AHL..

 

[Killerjas]

Next Carey Price. Both first names start with a C. Both surnames start with a P. Both drafted by Montreal.

Coincidence? I think not.

 

[HockeyDBspecialist]

it makes Price disposable for the Seattle draft

 

[hockeyguru]

it makes Price disposable for the Seattle draft

no one is gonna want that awful contract

 

[HockeyDBspecialist]

no one is gonna want that awful contract

what did Bob get again in Florida ?
Was Fleury a big hit for Vegas ?
Are goaltender getting paid more and more ?


get out of your 2010 thinking, elite goaltenders get paid now

 

[hockeyguru]

what did Bob get again in Florida ?
Was Fleury a big hit for Vegas ?
Are goaltender getting paid more and more ?


get out of your 2010 thinking, elite goaltenders get paid now

the bobrovsky contract is brutal so that doesn't help your point. as for price, he hasn't preformed at a clip where he can be considered worth his contract and he is made of glass, so he's ready to get injured any minute now.

 

[Curufinwe]

it makes Price disposable for the Seattle draft

Good joke. Seattle aren't going to blow ~12% of their cap space on a goalie who will be 34 when the 21-22 season starts.

 

[montreal]

What about giving him chance for several games in the main team? He seems to be too good for AHL..

no, way too early for that.

no one is gonna want that awful contract

The Habs can retain, if they wait till the summer of '21 and pay his 11M bonus he'll be owed 33M over 5 years so he would be making 6.6M a year in salary and they could say retain 2-3M per so his cap hit would be 7.5-8.5M If a team is struggling in net, it won't look nearly as bad.

 

[montreal]

Primeau seems kind of good at this goalie thing.

 

[Bouboumaster]

Some teams are just good at finding and developping top players at some positions, like Nashville and their d-men factory, but Habs know how to find top goalies.
Primeau will be a beast.

 

[FlyguyOX]

Got this kid off waivers in my 31 team dynasty league 1.5-2 years ago. What a steal

 

[HuGort]

His numbers are better at Laval than they were at Northeastern.

 

[TheBeastCoast]

no, way too early for that.



The Habs can retain, if they wait till the summer of '21 and pay his 11M bonus he'll be owed 33M over 5 years so he would be making 6.6M a year in salary and they could say retain 2-3M per so his cap hit would be 7.5-8.5M If a team is struggling in net, it won't look nearly as bad.

And his full no move that he would have to waive to go to an expansion team...who would have to want him in the first place. Seems like the kind of thing that has like a 5% chance of actually working out.

 

[Mrb1p]

Some teams are just good at finding and developping top players at some positions, like Nashville and their d-men factory, but Habs know how to find top goalies.
Primeau will be a beast.

Between Price and Primeau, the best goaltender they found is Mike Condon... Id say the Habs are quite pathetic there. Thats 13 years between them, and Primeau still isn't a NHL player.

Meanwhile Nashville
2003 Weber, Suter, Klein
2005 Franson
2008 Josi
2009 Ellis, Ekholm
2013 Jones
2016 Girard, Fabbro

One is not like the other.

 

[Bouboumaster]

Between Price and Primeau, the best goaltender they found is Mike Condon... Id say the Habs are quite pathetic there. Thats 13 years between them, and Primeau still isn't a NHL player.

Meanwhile Nashville
2003 Weber, Suter, Klein
2005 Franson
2008 Josi
2009 Ellis, Ekholm
2013 Jones
2016 Girard, Fabbro

One is not like the other.

It doesn't matter what we had between Price and Primeau, we have Price.
(We also produced Halak, but hey)

But in the past, we produced Price, Roy, Theodore, Dryden, Plante, etc. All world class goalies (all but Theodore) and all among the best ever (but Theodore and Price)

 

[Mrb1p]

It doesn't matter what we had between Price and Primeau, we have Price.
(We also produced Halak, but hey)

But in the past, we produced Price, Roy, Theodore, Dryden, Plante, etc. All world class goalies (all but Theodore) and all among the best ever (but Theodore and Price)

One good goalie every ten years... Yay.

Meanwhile Nashville has produced 6 top pair Dman in a span of 12 years.

 

[ottawa]

Between Price and Primeau, the best goaltender they found is Mike Condon... Id say the Habs are quite pathetic there. Thats 13 years between them, and Primeau still isn't a NHL player.

Meanwhile Nashville
2003 Weber, Suter, Klein
2005 Franson
2008 Josi
2009 Ellis, Ekholm
2013 Jones
2016 Girard, Fabbro

One is not like the other.

I believe the habs didn't put much focus on drafting goalies ever since they landed Price...Primeau was just a diamond in the rough they got lucky with.

If the habs wanted a goalie, they would scout one and draft one in the earlier rounds (1st or 2nd) like they did with Price.

Nashville put more emphasis on defensemen than the habs put on goalies.

 

[FlyguyOX]

Kid only just turned 20. Insane.