HF Habs: Out of Town Thread: 2024 Playoff Edition

[The Real Timo]

This feels like dog days of summer already. We need a trade, a signing, a something to freak out over. Do it Hughes!

 

[sampollock]

This feels like dog days of summer already. We need a trade, a signing, a something to freak out over. Do it Hughes!

I know
I think this board has beat out every possibility ... now we need a trade to chat about

 

[Boss Man Hughes]

This feels like dog days of summer already. We need a trade, a signing, a something to freak out over. Do it Hughes!

At least if the Habs make a trade we can pretty confident it won't be a complete disaster which was always a possibility with MB. MB made some good trades and some terrible ones. Never knew which it would be.

 

[The Real Timo]

I know
I think this board has beat out every possibility ... now we need a trade to chat about

Hughes should make a play for KK. That will generate some discussion.

 

[donghabs98]

It's interesting reading this and thinking back to Marner's gods comment. Gotta think their locker room is cliquey.

 

[Leto]

It's interesting reading this and thinking back to Marner's gods comment. Gotta think their locker room is cliquey.

Here's some comments Ryan Reaves made last summer :

"I don't ever come into a locker room shy or quiet. I tend to come in and start chirping people right away," Reaves said with a smile.

"But off the ice, for me, I take that very seriously. I like to plan the parties, I like to get the boys together, I like getting them together on the road. If somebody tends to not come to events sometimes, I tend to just make sure everybody's there because it's really important.

"The best teams I've been on are the teams that everybody is together all the time off the ice. The worst teams I've been on, you have little cliques that hang out together, and you never really get the full group together."​

 

[Adam Michaels]

This feels like dog days of summer already. We need a trade, a signing, a something to freak out over. Do it Hughes!

The next move I'm anticipating is the Kapanen signing after the Worlds

 

[sampollock]

It's interesting reading this and thinking back to Marner's gods comment. Gotta think their locker room is cliquey.

Does this mean the core 4 stays???

 

[TheBuriedHab]

Why are people so obsessed with these midgets that don't skate well but they dominate junior.

I cant wait till next year when the next 5'10 forward is being obsessed over that we won't pick again.

Do me a favor and go look at the 4 teams left in the playoffs to see how the best teams are being built now.

 

[sampollock]

Why are people so obsessed with these midgets that don't skate well but they dominate junior.

I cant wait till next year when the next 5'10 forward is being obsessed over that we won't pick again.

Do me a favor and go look at the 4 teams left in the playoffs to see how the best teams are being built now.

sure is true.. a team needs beef to win a cup. able to roll out guys that can play both ends and not afraid to go to the net.

 

[red devil]

Demko was a big loss. Border in game 7… brutal. As for Pettersen I’ve gotta think he’s hurt or something, he dropped right off.

Maybe he’s the second coming of Marner but I think it’s way too early to say that now.

Pettersson's play dropped off from the Allstar break. He wasn't rested at the end of the season so I doubt he had a injury. He really needs to step up his game to live up to his contract.

 

[morhilane]

Here's some comments Ryan Reaves made last summer :

Ryan Reaves is not the guy I was expecting to be a locker room glue.

 

[Adam Michaels]

McDonagh traded back to Tampa

 

[The Gr8 Dane]

Not gonna lie I'm gonna be a bit salty if the oilers win a cup . the masters of tanking still getting rewarded for it 10 years later . nice.

 

[sampollock]

McDonagh traded back to Tampa

TB will have no top picks ..lol

 

[Stive Morgan]

Today I learned Arturs Silovs played 10 games for Trois-Riveires in 2021-22 putting up a .920 save% while on loan from the Abbottsford Canucks.

That's pretty cool. I've been following the ECHL teams a bit more recently but didn't remember him being loaned there.

 

[Frank Drebin]

Not gonna lie I'm gonna be a bit salty if the oilers win a cup . the masters of tanking swill getting rewarded for it 10 years later . nice.

Oilers legitimately tried to be better for years. Even in the McDavid/Eichel draft year they played their way out of a top 2 pick and won the pick in the lottery

Last 30 games they went 10-15-5 (68 point pace) compared to 14-29-9 (58 point pace) for the first 52

Compare that to the ultimate tankers Buffalo Sabres who traded bad goalies for worse goalies at the TDL.

 

[Stive Morgan]

Not gonna lie I'm gonna be a bit salty if the oilers win a cup . the masters of tanking swill getting rewarded for it 10 years later . nice.

I have a lot of respect for McDavid but the rest of the team really pisses me off, especially Draisaitl and Skinner (I've got beef with him from my WHL days)

 

[MarkovsKnee]

Such a disappointing game 7. The Canucks as usual took too long to wake up. I was really hoping they'd let loose on Skinner. I appreciate the gameplan to maintain possession and limit low quality shots, but strategies like that are manipulatable, and an opponent can game things to run out the clock and force things at the end of games.

The Canucks should've started blasting shots at puck drop and I bet it would've caught the Oil off guard, maybe a goal would come out of it. But it would've set a better tone for the Canucks to control the game, at home, with the crowd etc.

Garland was awesome the whole series, and I thought Petterson wasn't great but wasn't horrid either. Silovs did all he could. I think if Boeser was in this could've been a different story. But in the end, Canucks left it too late, and the Oilers deserve to move on.

Vancouver was trying to move Garland with no takers last year. I would take him. He's a terrific 3rd line player with a high compete level & speed. He makes $4.95m over 2 years. That's not bad. I wouldn't give up a 1st for him, but a couple of mid round picks for sure.

OEL's buyout is going to hit Vancouver over the next 3 years before it drops. It's $2.3m next season then $4.766m the following 2 years. They might look to move some money to sign Hronek, Zadorov, Joshua or Lindholm.

 

[Leto]

McDonagh traded back to Tampa

 

[LaP]

Vancouver was trying to move Garland with no takers last year. I would take him. He's a terrific 3rd line player with a high compete level & speed. He makes $4.95m over 2 years. That's not bad. I wouldn't give up a 1st for him, but a couple of mid round picks for sure.

OEL's buyout is going to hit Vancouver over the next 3 years before it drops. It's $2.3m next season then $4.766m the following 2 years. They might look to move some money to sign Hronek, Zadorov, Joshua or Lindholm.

HE's paid 5 millions a year. He must be a top 6 player at this price.

 

[MarkovsKnee]

HE's paid 5 millions a year. He must be a top 6 player at this price.

He's actually making $6m next year. Lol But his cap hit is only $4.95m. He had 20g, 47 pts this year and was +19. His salary doesn't matter. His cap hit is fine for what he brings.

 

[Doc McKenna]

The whole org was a clown show under bergevin. it was amateur egotistic hour that last a decade. What a waste. ALL on Molson.

We should have a won a cup in that era. Not the finals we didn't belong in, but 2013-2017 habs could have been a very good team with an OK manager and no dinosaur coaches.

 

[The Great Weal]

McDonagh traded back to Tampa

So if Trotz is committing to being a seller, I'm not sure why he hasn't done more. The guy seems to flip flop in terms of what he wants to do. As for the Bolts, they are trending downwards are are already low on assets. Don't really get it for either team lol.

 

[26Mats]

Nice top 4 in Tampa:

McDongh - Hedman
Sergachev - Cernak