Good for Crosby. I might be weird, but part of my enjoyment of following these kids and their development, is the idea that they will always be Montreal Canadiens. Having players who wear only 1 jersey and represent a team throughout their career is healthy for the game.
HF Habs: Out Of Town Thread: 2024 Off-Season edition
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CDN24
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At some point Pens will need to bite the bullet and rebuild. Since drafting Crosby and Letang in 2005, the pens have drafted over 100 players in the draft. Probably only one of them Bryan Rust will be on their opening night roster this year.
If they extend Crosby they will have 58.3M plus whatever Crosby is paid under contract to next years cap hit. all but $5M of it (Lizotte, Aho and Nedeljkovic) will be to players who are 30 or over when the season starts next year. Even their "young" players are in their early 30s
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They'll just do like CH fans and media and call 31 years old Belzile a young player.
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They will in the 2026 draft, they don't do it unless Bettman guarantees them a generational talent.
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Malkin and Letang would have been pissed if Crosby had left them.
Reminds me of when Mark Messier begged Wayne Gretzky to join the Rangers and then leaving for Vancouver the following year
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They've already missed their window of opportunity in term of having the best potential turnover and are now plucking at straws.
The luster was actually starting to come off when we beat them in the covid play in.
Insert KH licking his chops meme...
Nothing like desperation & urgency to swoop in and take advantage of.
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Unfortunately Pens have no assets of interest and lack cap space to acquire contracts, so Dubas will go after available analytics darlings
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KH: ''Can we interest you in some good reliable productive Michael Matheson? You are familiar with that name, aren't you?''
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So I guess he’s teaching him to not fight?
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“Let me tell you about the code Matty”
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Team_Spirit
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Keep your gloves on if Milan looks the other way
Replace meat with kale and nuts.
Become friend with the reporters.
Accept every single sponsor opportunity
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Laraque teaching guys to grapple.
Xhekaj got worse last year. I don't know if it was the shoulder bugging him, but I don't remember him winning a single fight last season.
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He’s teaching them to not lose, not to win. Since there isn’t a prize for winning fights but the penalty for losing is severe brain damage, I can certainly see the upside to Georges’ strategy.
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Ahhh memories. Kinda reminds me of watching myself some 40 plus years ago. Sadly I didn't grow much more than that. Which kinda put an end to my NHL dream. lol
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Lol I feel the same way about Matthews in Toronto. I commend players who pick a number, and try to make it their own. Though when I see #34, all I can think of is a back up goalie.
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For some reason that number seems to associated with first round losses.
They are about to become a bottom dweller. They are aging and have nothing in the prospect pipeline.
They are just waiting for next July 1st to be able to sign Draisailt and Rantanen.
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I thought the Pens hired Dubas to lead a rebuild. But it turns out they hired him to keep status quo which is even more perplexing. He was incapable of properly surrounding the Leafs core, why would they think he’d be able to surround an even worse and aging core?
