As much as everyone was laughing at that offer then, it's pretty freaking good when you realize what Halak and Ryder turned out to become
guy at 17 is 3 years away. that puts PLD that much older, need to fill the gaps with our suz and CC now, not in 3 years if we are lucky
that is a such a bang on point. if not the B's , it will be a team that throws cash.
Are you in favour of trading Suzuki then? I can't see how him being 1 year younger and making 125k less than 8M would be enough of a difference to choose to keep Suzuki instead of trading him for a huge haul of futures. There's significantly higher opportunity cost to keeping Suzuki given that Suzuki's trade value is significantly higher than what a Dubois trade will look like. Why is 24 y/o Dubois for 8x8 a non-starter, but we should definitely keep 23 y/o Suzuki for 7x7.875 instead of cashing in on his trade value now to help the rebuild?
Suzy 66pts $7,875,000 with an actual salary of $10,000,000 this year and next....
I think the idea is we will end up with a bunch of 8 Mill players but no franchise player. And people are scared of being a capped out top 6 with no PPG guy
To be fair to you, he technically has never reached 65 pts
Then Suzuki is not worth his contract? I don’t know man. If PLD is getting 8M$, I don’t think it’s bad or good, it’s market value imo. If it’s more than 8M$, it’s risky but still can be good since all the years in his contact might be prime years.
Yeah I definitely get that side of it, I just think if that's the concern, you'd logically have to want to trade Suzuki too. We barely managed a bottom 5 finish this year with a hilariously bad injury situation, I'd think that unless we have a somehow even worse injury situation next year or a total goaltending collapse we're already going to be into the 8-10 tier with or without him, at which point I don't really care if he pushes us to something like pick 11. To finish bottom 5 again we'd have to either trade or lose Caufield and Suzuki for a significant amount of time.
Says who? Linked here is a sample cap sheet for 3 seasons from now, taking the most "pessimistic" view from a cap perspective (which is of course optimistic for player dev). Pretty much all of our prospects pan out, Dubois costs 9M, we get Bedard, and we can't move Gallagher or Anderson. Harris is assumed to be traded for Dubois in this example, and I've assumed we sign relatively expensive depth vets as well. I haven't included a 2024 or 2025 1st round pick as they'd be on ELCs anyway. The cap numbers are based on the reported approx ~6M jump that's in the pipeline from the new American TV deals when the HRR debt is repaid either by the end of this or next season.
I've never seen any proposals where it is all that much of a bargain. I guess that's where we're seeing different. If I thought the contract he'd sign for would be a really good team-friendly deal, and the trade to get him would be less than fair market value, then yes I would agree. Sign me up. I just don't see that happening. Most trade proposals and contract terms I see seem like the Habs wouldn't be getting any discount at all. Which is why I'm in no rush.
You have to draft franchise players. They are very rarely available as free agents or trade.
I've watched him play maybe 10 times, usually in the playoffs, and he has never looked very good to me. Like he's ok, but he doesn't really do very much. I don't see him as an impact player or a player who can drive offense on a line. But these things are always a bit subjective.
