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Patrik Laine thread 88 pages and counting. Has never played a regular season game.
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My bad, I should have chosen simple words and used much shorter sentences, lol.
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In order for the Habs to have been a potential playoff team this year, we needed both Dach and Laine to be healthy all year and productive. This isn't going to be the case now and the season hasn't even started. So regardless if Laine plays 6 games or 12 games or even 20 games - it's not enough to make a difference. As of right now, this is going to be yet another nothing season.
I won't even get into the Michkov thing. I've said said on that already.
I won't even get into the Michkov thing. I've said said on that already.
HuGort
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Hopefully this learns Hughes lesson investing in injury prone players. statically you know odds high he's going to continue to be injured. Laine been injured 4 straight years. Gives Kapanen a spot but losing 9 million in caproom when rosters set is painful. Very poor asset management.
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We got paid to take Laine and had zero other options in which to invest that 9m in cap space.
In fact we had zero plans to use Carey Price’s cap hit either.
It was terrific asset management.
Grate n Colorful Oz
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You must be dizzy from all that spin
Last year it really was for a late blind side hit to his head that derailed his good start. This year it was a hit to a knee. He is injury prone, but not that injury prone. He has been a ppg player with very little support for a while. It was well worth the risk.
River Meadow
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It's very difficult to avoid all risk.
In hindsight it's easy to say these things. You also have to factor what we gave up for the potential return/reward. It was well worth it, IMO.
If Laine pots 35-40goals then he looks like a genius (which he technically could still potentially do, if not this year then next).
26Mats
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We weren't using that money anyways this year. We'll see if we're losing out next year...
That Columbus 2nd in 2026 will be fire. Really glad we got it...
Have to see the whole picture of this trade, i.e. if/when Laine gets healthy what he does. I like this trade so much I still like it even though Laine's blown out his knee. Hopefully he gets back to 100% and comes back even hungrier for hockey. We've heard a lot about how he just wants to make sure he's happy, ok with his mental health. Next year I want to hear more he just wants to play hockey because he's so hungry for hockey and will appreciate every second he gets to play, and compete, and help the team win.
Grate n Colorful Oz
Pure Laine Hutson
We'll have plenty of cap space next year, between contracts running out (savard, armia, dvo), salary retentions running out (petry, allen) and the cap going up, we'll have 15.5m + cap raise, minus 6.5 mil for Slaf's raise. Don't know about present bonus, but if there is, it's less cap space to deduce from his next contract = more cap space.
Even if we were to re-sign Savard, we're looking at around 10 mil in cap space. Quite enough to sign whoever we want, again.
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This assumes the free agent market will be appealing.
I keep saying it, but every year, the free agent market gets worse and worse. Just look whose available right now, in 3-6 months, the best names won't be anymore.
Unless people actually think a guy like Rantanen is going to hit the market. I'd be shocked.
The Gr8 Dane
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*investing* is a big word , considering we gave up nothing for him , the cap space is irrelevant , its still a rebuild year , did you want us to get two useless UFA vets that do nothing for us instead?
Grate n Colorful Oz
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26Mats
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Yes, it's tough on the players. But there is greater good ahead. Hey, we'll see if Oliver Kapanen, or Ro, is ready to make the second line a good one.
junyab
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The fact of the matter is MB didn't start a rebuild at any point in his tenure. Just because he made the team garbage and dropped in the standings doesn't mean they were in a rebuild. You need to make a stronger case than just the Patches trade (which you know why he was traded) and the team was trash.
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StCaufield
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Kinda random, Habs will share the news on their Twitter, but it's usually around practices/morning skate or game depending.
jrom
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You sound like Normand Flynn with those horrible takes. Harris for a 2nd and 2 years of Laine is bad asset management ?
they are probably waiting on inflammation to go lower and getting a third and fourth opinion for Laine knee.
Mrb1p
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A team being garbage and accumulating assets is literally what a rebuild is. That it happened through careful planning or sheer incompetence means no difference.
JianYang
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I seem to recall that MB referenced the bruins in what he was trying to do. At the time, the bruins had recently missed the playoffs a couple times and instead of blowing things up, they continued to supplement the existing core along with a coaching and managerial change. It worked for them but that was not a rebuild.
In the habs case, If your intention was to continue to build around Weber and price, then the idea was clearly to be competitive in the present. Heck, even when price and Weber effectively retired, he was still doubling down with moves like trading a 1st for dvorak, and signing savard which is the furthest thing from a rebuild type of move.
MB needed to be taken out of his misery before the habs could declare a rebuild.
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