Armia put up career numbers, size and he's a beast for the cycle game.
He's going to be a pretty solid D, especially if he adds a few pounds of muscle. And yeah, he's going to win whatever humanitarian awards that are going.
Yeah but even still if someone they want to go all in for like Draisaitl emerges on the market next year I think they've collected enough future assets to dump Gallagher or Anderson and then they can just buy out the other or even move Laine @50% if he doesn't prove to be a great match
8.7 mill is nothing to ignore imo. Yes, for a rebuilding team that doesn't expect to compete for another 2-3 years it's a good scenario. It still limits your ability to bring in a big UFA or land a big time player via trade. Whether that would have presented itself is anyone's guess but I don't think it's zero risk. When you throw in the Montreal media against a guy who typically does not perform well under a spotlight, I'd say the probability of it working out isn't amazing.
I thought that would be fair compensation and we didn't get it. And again, I'm only bringing that up because there's some folks going on about how everything we said was completely wrong and I'm pointing out that the extreme case didn't happen on either end. It's closer to Montreal's view of the end result than ours, but that happens.
That's fine.. Armia, Dvorak, and Savard are all done next year.
How does moving Harris for Laine worsen Montreal exactly? They already signed everyone on their team for next 2 years at least so it's not like they are going to have issues with cap. Did you want them to sign some UFAs to inflated deals? Adding a 25yr old who's had 0.91pts/game last 3 seasons on an equally bad team with only 2 yr term seems like a decent investment... especially when it comes with a 2nd.
That's the presumed hope, but frankly I don't think we're going to see any such application of that cap space for this coming season. Not unless something really unexpected materializes out of the blue.
Leafs and Wings fans throwing shades as if their team core has accomplished anything
I will pay more attention to that the upcoming season then! Hoping for a good run for him and Laine
This. I am very, very unhappy that Waddell considered it acceptable to sell low. That said, at least we got back someone we can definitely use. (On the other hand, if it weren't for Waddell throwing away perfectly good blueliners for free earlier, there wouldn't have been a spot for Harris... yeah, I'm not exactly thrilled here.)
