Lane Hutson Burgeoning Star Watch

The talk in Montreal right now. Is that there is no way Hutson accept to re-sign for only 10 millions for 8 years.

Yeah, it makes a ton of sense too when you consider how fast he's improved defensively + the fact that he's having one of the best rookie defensemen seasons ever - 10 million in this salary cap environment is just too low for a player of his caliber on a long term deal even with him being an RFA, it just is.
 
Are you really going to argue that Laine wouldn't have helped the pp if Hutson wasn't there?
I'm arguing that Hutson's promotion was a bigger factor in PP1's success than the addition of Laine.

Laine being there is a bit of a double edged sword - he's obviously one of the best shooting threats in the league, but it's also resulted in Montreal's PP becoming predictable since the mandate is "Get it to Laine at all costs". Without him there would likely be a bit more variety - enough to offset losing his 1T threat? I don't know, but I know I'd take him off of PP1 over Hutson any day.
 
Yeah, it makes a ton of sense too when you consider how fast he's improved defensively + the fact that he's having one of the best rookie defensemen seasons ever - 10 million in this salary cap environment is just too low for a player of his caliber on a long term deal even with him being an RFA, it just is.
The counter argument which is also valid is that if you want a competitive team you need all the players to accept slightly less so they can keep all their talent together and compete. If you take look at the Habs payroll they established a maximum value with Nick Suzuki for all players they re-signed. None made more. The argument is that Hutson would accept slightly less than his true value and establish his contract as the new limit.

Florida and Tampa Bay did that to keep their core players. It's quite possible that Hutson might also accept this so to Habs can compete.
 
I'm arguing that Hutson's promotion was a bigger factor in PP1's success than the addition of Laine.

Laine being there is a bit of a double edged sword - he's obviously one of the best shooting threats in the league, but it's also resulted in Montreal's PP becoming predictable since the mandate is "Get it to Laine at all costs". Without him there would likely be a bit more variety - enough to offset losing his 1T threat? I don't know, but I know I'd take him off of PP1 over Hutson any day.

The strategy before that wasn't much different, it was to pass it to Caufield.

Hutson was also predictable on the pp in the sense that he wasn't going to shoot. He had 26 shots in 24 games during the period he was on pp2, and likely very few of them came on the pp.
 
So essentially water cooler talk/speculation amongst unconnected fans that happen to have a public platform.

Unless these two regularly talk to hughes/player agents and are legit insiders?
I never claimed it was discussion between Hughes and player agent? Where did you got that. I said the talk in town (media in this case, next time I will specify it)
This is a freaking discussion hockey board. What is the problem in discussing hypothetical contract to Hutson?
 
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I never claimed it was discussion between Hughes and player agent? Where did you got that. I said the talk in town (media in this case, next time I will specify it)
This is a freaking discussion hockey board. What is the problem in discussing hypothetical contract to Hutson?
Relax,

But you did say this: "The talk in Montreal right now. Is that there is no way Hutson accept to re-sign for only 10 millions for 8 years."
 

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