Official Tank Thread

[Lafleurs Guy]

Trying to make the playoffs this year was always a mistake. We need more talent, and we need to shed dead weight.

Evaluation year. We knew it would be inconsistent. But it's weird how we've been inconsistent for weeks at a time.

Armia's in his 7th year here and he's been dog shit for 6 of those years, minus about 25 games this year and 1 playoffs. How anyone wanted to re-sign this guy is beyond me. Guys that have tools but play well once in a blue moon are not guys you build around. f***ing Chad Kilger all over again.

Dvorak is garbage. Gallagher is done. Tank tank tank le'ts go!

Dvorak is gone. Gallagher is not. But it doesn't matter. Team is going to continue to transition.

I have zero issues with us selling this year but sell what? I mean most of the stuff we want to sell isn't going to garner much. Matheson will be a good piece but I can't see us doing that until next year. Dvorak has zero value. Armia has little value.

Do we want to trade Evans? I don't. But if he wants too much we may not have a choice. One thing I think we discovered is that Heineman was a pretty valuable player. He was pacing for 20 goals in his rookie season and since he left, Evans' scoring has dried up and the team stopped winning. He was giving us some really good depth scoring.

We could trade Laine...

 

[Lafleurs Guy]

A thread resurrection. I didn't know that was even possible.

Vampires are hard to kill.

 

[Catanddogguitarrr]

Hughes MUST trade for proper vets. I don't see any other choice if they want to start progressing.

Also, not sure what is people's issue with Yoel. Like what do you expect the 4th liner to do... score 50 goals and be PPG? The dude is an outstanding PK'er, chips in with a goal on occasion, cannot be moved off the puck... his puck control in general better than 75% of the team. Same goes for Evans. You know what these guys are... they are useful guys. Keep them. Team needs goal scorers, and high IQ players. And some f***ing toughness up front, FFS!!!!

At the right price and term, I can agree keeping Armia and Evans.
Lol, it's like a strip-tease, I am willing to do it but I wanna keep my socks cuz the floor is freezing cold. We don't have to undress that much, we can keep Evans and Armia. Sorry for the outragious example, my sense of humour is bawdy.

 

[Grate n Colorful Oz]

Vampires are hard to kill.

Just need a bit of sunshine!

 

[BigDaddyLurch]

 

[ReHabs]

The only thing holding back a total sell-off is the lack of bodies to call up.

If MTL can manage to sell the four pending UFAs and somehow get crappy NHL players back, so to ensure Laval isn’t disrupted too much, then we might see a proper (horrifying) end of season tank.

If they can’t physically replace the players that are meant to be sold, then I don’t see it happening.

Really couldn’t care less about Savard, Evans, Armia, Dvorak, Anderson, Gallagher or even Dach + Newhook. All of them are irrelevant to the competitive Habs team. It’s just unfortunately too much roster turnover if they all go between now and July 1st.

 

[habbubba]

The only thing holding back a total sell-off is the lack of bodies to call up.

If MTL can manage to sell the four pending UFAs and somehow get crappy NHL players back, so to ensure Laval isn’t disrupted too much, then we might see a proper (horrifying) end of season tank.

If they can’t physically replace the players that are meant to be sold, then I don’t see it happening.

Really couldn’t care less about Savard, Evans, Armia, Dvorak, Anderson, Gallagher or even Dach + Newhook. All of them are irrelevant to the competitive Habs team. It’s just unfortunately too much roster turnover if they all go between now and July 1st.

In return Montreal can get capdumps.

 

[rahad]

If we could land Hagens, Schaefer or Misa in this draft the rebuild would be pretty much over.

I agreed with you. We especially need a elite center with the decline of Dach and Newhook. We are one Nick Suzuki injury from drafting bottom 5 in 2026.

Having Suzuki as our second center will increase our odd of winning the stanley cup.