HF Habs: Out of Town Thread: 2024-2025 season

[GlassesJacketShirt]

Well that was one of the most one-sided games I've ever seen. Took a nearly flawless performance by the Avs to beat the lowly Ducks, anything less and Fourgiev happens.

 

[Deebs]

I still have a brand new looking Habs Starter jacket from around 1994.

Jealous.

 

[JianYang]

Yes no chance they would have signed here. We appear to be only a Destination for older Quebecois who want to finish the last few years of their career playing in front of family. lol.

What I have found is that guys who play in Montreal realize its a pretty good place to play in and are usually open to extending here. So the top UFAs may be hard for us to get , and maybe that way of getting a player isnt an option for us. So for us drafting and trades may be the only way.

It's like any place. If the player has a little bit of time to lay some roots and get a taste of the city, they are more likely to come back.

All the drafted guys that the Habs wanted to retain beyond restricted status have generally come back. Heck, even pending free agents picked up at the deadline that the Habs wanted to keep have come back (petry, kovalev).

It's the ufas with no preexisting roots that are harder to attract but still possible.... guys like radulov, hamrlik, Cole, cammalleri, gionta come to mind as decent names, but it's never been a route to get a marquee talent for the Habs.

So montreal needs to find that marquee talent internally and then they can still use the ufa market to find some decent players as well. It's just a tough sell for now because ufas typically avoid places where winning today is not the priority.

 

[Paddyjack]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1847114987330064885

Oyoyoye, as Brunet would say....

 

[Boss Man Hughes]

It's like any place. If the player has a little bit of time to lay some roots and get a taste of the city, they are more likely to come back.

All the drafted guys that the Habs wanted to retain beyond restricted status have generally come back. Heck, even pending free agents picked up at the deadline that the Habs wanted to keep have come back (petry, kovalev).

It's the ufas with no preexisting roots that are harder to attract but still possible.... guys like radulov, hamrlik, Cole, cammalleri, gionta come to mind as decent names, but it's never been a route to get a marquee talent for the Habs.

So montreal needs to find that marquee talent internally and then they can still use the ufa market to find some decent players as well. It's just a tough sell for now because ufas typically avoid places where winning today is not the priority.

It's been a long time since the Habs were a Cup contender. If they are in a couple of years we'll see if that is enough to attract UFA's. If not then they have to hit homeruns at the draft.

 

[The Great Weal]

KK with 3 points in 3 games, he's breaking out for realzies this time

We sure could have used another small forward to get thrown around like that.

This was happening to our 6'4 230lb rookie on a nightly basis