Hold up, you do understand that his contract will be done at 32 right? When did we reach a world where 32 is when players become useless. Also he had a pro rated 71 pt season. If you tell me the Habs get a player that puts up 70 pts pro rated throughout most of his contract and he's not a liability on defence, I say sign me up. When was the last time the Habs had that. Max Pacioretty when he was in the high 60s?
Your post just stole the thunder from @sampollock ’s PxP thread status updates.
Yes he'll be 27-31. Big deal. Can't win cups with a bunch of 24 year olds. Even Mike Johnson just said on tsn that the Habs can't keep insulating their young core with young guys, they need vets. If Dubois counts as a vet (7th year) that's a nice age to be for veteran presence. Also veteran presence can be maturity in one's game, not always in the locker room. Habs already have two Jonathan Toews carbon copies in Suzuki and Guhle
The fact there’s been no PLD trade announcement to LAK means there’s a high probability no such package has been offered.
It won’t beat the no politics thread I gave up
And all the names leak F*** LA too
Max Domi put up 72 points without any of the pro rated crap. Didn’t mean he was a great player.
I added the caveat of not a defensive liability. I was very careful when I wrote that part of the post
C'mon, Gallagher is a walking corpse on skates. He paid the price for the type of game he plays. Everyone except MB saw it coming. That's what happens when you play at 130% for the better part of a decade, you waste the % from your future years
Bingo!
Interesting that you know, that but the agents for Caufield, Bratt and Hintz do not.
Too good. That's two first rounders + +
Gotta give to get. Gonna be interesting to see who is ultimately offered, if it comes to pass.
Great example. PLDs contract in terms of age would be the equivalency of Heatley from 06-14. He was still a good player 6 of those 8 years. The second last year was NHL average and the last was booty. My point with PLD was a contract finishing at 32 isn't bad as he'll be effective pretty much through all of it and might at the end. Players that usually greatly dip around the age of 32 usually have injury problems. If you're lucky enough to be healthy most of your career until 32, you'll probably just have a moderate plateau, especially if you're a high draft pick that didn't bust or spent a significant amount of time on the IR
We can't give Barron as we are too thing at the RD position. We literally only have Barron and Savard with Mailloux on the way.
