HF Habs: Out of Town Thread: Off-Season Edition

[LaP]

Wonderboy cooking in Pittsburgh already.

Man they need young blood and they go get a 32 years old guy. They have a massive cap space not sure Smith is a good use of it. They need young guys capable of sharing the load with Malkin, Crosby and Letang. They have one established forward and one established dman under 30 i mean like good luck with that. They'll miss again next year. Buffalo is not going anywhere but up. With Hornqvist's and Gudas' contract over i'd say Florida is in a better spot than last year.

 

[Grate n Colorful Oz]

Figs want the core 4 back

Risk aversion coupled with a need to milk the cow dry made that predictable. MLSE is a joke.

Trade one of them ffs

 

[LaP]

What were you expecting? HuGo blew their load on Newhook before the draft and we have literally nothing we can afford to part with that has value unfortunately. Outside of maybe an Edmunston but realistically what are we getting for those types of players right now. Bergevin buried this franchise. It’s been almost two years and we’re still recovering.

If we retain on some of those guys we'll get something. And honestly we totally should do it. I'm not sure why we are so afraid to retain. If you retain on Savard and make him a 2 millions guy you'll get something. All teams are loking for good vets on a cheap contract and a David Savard at 2 millions for this year and next holsd value. I mean the Bruins are paying Mike Reilly and Derek Forbort 3 millions each ... Same for Dvorak. He's worth nothing as it stands but retain and make him a 3 millions guy and teams will listen for sure.

 

[Pompeius Magnus]

Man they need young blood and they go get a 32 years old guy. They have a massive cap space not sure Smith is a good use of it. They need young guys capable of sharing the load with Malkin, Crosby and Letang. They have one established forward and one established dman under 30 i mean like good luck with that. They'll miss again next year. Buffalo is not going anywhere but up. With Hornqvist and Gudas contract over i'd say Florida is in a better spot that last year.

That's the curse of having kept the same core past the point where they were really elite. Chicago got stuck in the same pattern a few seasons ago.

 

[bcv]

I haven't seen something so hyped up (trades at the draft) in sports that underwhelmed so much since the Green Bay Packers beat writers hhyped their defense last year.

All that talent wasted by Joe Barry.

 

[WeThreeKings]

All that talent wasted by Joe Barry.

Packers haven't had a good defensive coordinator forever, f***ing brutal.

 

[Adam Michaels]

 

[red devil]

 

[Chili]

Seems like only a couple of teams have announced their qualifying offers and the deadline is tomorrow afternoon. Interested to see the complete list, including the Habs.

 

[salbutera]

As I always say, scouting Dir should be purged after 5-years, it’s purely a game of recency bias - who do I know in the right places at the right time and once they move I become ineffective as history has clearly shown over last 25+ years



Al Murray had a very good first 4-years (2011-2015), he had been scouting Point & Cirelli from their early teens for Hockey Canada as Scouting Dir after being let go by LAK, and had inside info when he joined TBay. Once he lost those contacts who had moved on, he became ineffective (2016-2022)

 

[red devil]

 

[Adam Michaels]

Official:

 

[Adam Michaels]

 

[Grate n Colorful Oz]

Official:

Smart move.

Hate the Hawks, though

 

[The Great Weal]

Dallas should be going for dmen instead. There's really nothing there after Heiskanen.

 

[Shred]

Official:

Overpaying for old players. Chicago really playing 4D chess.

 

[Adam Michaels]

Overpaying for old players. Chicago really playing 4D chess.

4M for Perry. 4M for Foligno.

 

[HabbyGuy]

Wow! Wheeler put on waivers.

 

[LaP]

Overpaying for old players. Chicago really playing 4D chess.

They had to spend that money anyway might as well spend it on good vets who are not good enough to steal TOI to kids if the coach is "rokie mistake" adverse.

 

[morhilane]

Overpaying for old players. Chicago really playing 4D chess.

Perry singing just took them over cap space floor and they wanted good vets around for Bedard. Vets who might have wanted to join a contender instead. They have zero issue overpaying for them.

 

[Adam Michaels]

 

[salbutera]

It’s now a matter of “when”….not “if”

 

[Miller Time]

It’s now a matter of “when”….not “if”

If they are serious about keeping the team in WPG, the ownership better open up the piggy bank this summer & Chevy better do well in offloading Hellebuyck

 

[salbutera]

If they are serious about keeping the team in WPG, the ownership better open up the piggy bank this summer & Chevy better do well in offloading Hellebuyck

The only reason the team was ever moved to Winter-peg is because David Thomson asked for a team, if he loses interest (and he doesn’t care for sports to begin with) the team will be instantly moved likely to Atlanta

 

[Adam Michaels]

Just when you thought you couldn't love Jagr more.