Dvorak i expect to be traded. He's a type of player GMs like to have on the 3rd line and could produce in the right circumstance. Hoffman and Armia will be tough. Habs need someone who wants a pure scorer and think Hoffman can produce on their team to a good extent (since he is a liability asides from that).
Retaining on Hoffman affects only this year. No problem. It costs us less than the waive/bury route.
Ya but why would retaining on Dvorak for an extra year be a big deal? The 2.25 cap space is a nonissue and we would still have 2 retention slots to use on Allen/Armia/Savard if we want to trade them.
Supposed to have been one of the six players. I haven't watched the video, believe it's on youtube. Martin Raymond who apparently gets heavily criticized in the video, was an assistant coach in Tampa when Martin St. Louis was there.
I doubt it and if he did for a multi year contract, the ask probably would be a bit higher.
Habs have 7 prospects with expiring rights in 2024 and 6 in 2025. They have to keep contract slots open for the next two years to sign a few of them. A few AHL twinner vets will probably be signed tomorrow too and you always want 2-3 slots free for opportunities (eating salary in trades, cap dump, etc).
It was fun to see which 2000s/2010s former big name player we could pickup during their final playing years! Semin, Hemsky, Staal, Murray, Perry, Gonchar, Briere and Niemi. If we only got them during their prime!
Poehling and Petry being made avaliable after less than a calendar year really shows how lucky we were to get that trade through when we did.
I often forget a lot of those guys (save for Staal and Perry, who could forget that cup run!?) were Habs. Same goes for Vanek and Kaberle
I hadn't even considered this fact, that really was a great deal, especially with how good Matheson looked when healthy
Oh brother... we gave up 1st and high second for newhook and not even sure he'll sign? That's awesome.
