GDT: Qualifying Offers, Buyout Window, & July 1st Free Agency Discussion Thread

[HabsWhiteKnightLOL]

With Mailloux and Reinbacher (maybe) going to Laval, it would be nice to sign a good AHL vet D-man to help them along.

They are probably gonna send Wideman to the AHL

 

[Adam Michaels]

Oh no, what will you do Michael Adams!

I'm done for.

 

[Ezpz]

My wife accidentally booked me the suite. Too bad they don't have tsn in China

 

[Adam Michaels]

 

[red devil]

 

[CHarlie]

Canadiens submit qualifying offers to six players | Montréal Canadiens

Offers made to Rafaël Harvey-Pinard, Alex Newhook, Jesse Ylönen, Lucas Condotta, Mitchell Stephens, and Nicolas Beaudin

www.nhl.com

Maybe a little late with this but RHP, Ylonen, Newhook, Condotta, Stephens, and Beaudin with qualifying offers

 

[BLONG7]

Wideman is our 7th D. Like or hate it he is mnt going anywhere

Thinking the young guns will push him out of the picture................just my 2 cents.

Time will tell.

 

[MarkovsKnee]

Wish list:
Trade some of Armia, Hoffman, Dvorak, Edmundson, Wideman

Re-sign or replace Schueneman and replace Bowey (Lucas Carlsson, Brogan Rafferty, Trevor Carrick, Maxime Lajoie)
Re-sign or replace Anthony Richard and Alex Belzile (Chris Terry, Matthew Phillips, Rocco Grimaldi, Martin Frk, Gemel Smith)
Re-sign to AHL deal Abbandonato, Dubé
Re-sign or replace AHL deal Martel and Bourque

Sign some muscle that can play hockey for Laval (Daniel Walcott, Jeffrey Viel, Brandon Baddock)

Sign some UDFA to AHL deals.

A really good pick-up for Laval would be Nicolas Meloche. Big, physical defensively conscious RD. Perfect partner for Norlinder. Can see them forming the #1 pairing.

He's from LaSalle too.

 

[salbutera]

 

[MarkovsKnee]

They are probably gonna send Wideman to the AHL

Distinct possibility depending on what they get done over the summer. I can actually see him getting claimed on waivers. Really cheap contract now, only one year left, right D, is fine with sitting as he just wants to be in the NHL, knows his role, someone might grab him as depth.

GMs love that. We'll see.

 

[HABitual Fan]

What's being said is that he had a change of heart because of the way it is in MTL (like the craziness that ensued with Reinbacher). This was before the Reibacher crap, so he must of read social media and all the crazies bashing him. There were just as many people wanting him as there were not wanting him, and there was all kinds of crap said on social media about him, Iike; quitter, overpaid and overrated at 60pts, etc. I know some people don't think these people read social media and the like, but they do.

If that is true, then we dodged an 8 year bullet. If it affected the poor chou-chou before he arrived, I hate to think what would have been, after

 

[Paddyjack]

Even with both Wideman and Edmundson out, we have 7D.
Matheson, Savard, Guhle, Barron, Xhekaj, Harris, Kovacevic

Kovacevic to me remains a spare that can be waived easily. I know some people are high on him here, but I'm not, and he cost nothing to acquire so...

 

[HabsWhiteKnightLOL]

Anaheim needs player to fit the floor on salary cap , We should offer them some Hoffman and Edmundson

 

[Michoulicious]

Omg this is hilarious. Toronto never disappoints.

 

[HabsWhiteKnightLOL]

people told me that their new GM was not washed when i called him out.

Gets probably 1 of the most useless player in the nhl

 

[Number 57]

Wideman is our 7th D. Like or hate it he is mnt going anywhere

Not true, he is 9th on the depth chart currently, with Kovacevic as the #8. Of course that can change if Edmundson/Harris/Barron are traded

 

[Guy Larose]

If that is true, then we dodged an 8 year bullet. If it affected the poor chou-chou before he arrived, I hate to think what would have been, after

I don't think it's more that it affected him more than he had choices. If you were a player with the choice of going somewhere where you're criticized a the slightest thing, harassed on social media, threats sent you way, etc etc, and going to another destination of your choice, what would you choose? Anyways, this isn't the PLD thread.

 

[Miller Time]

Not a bad player, with some compete to his game and has been a proven contributor on a winning team.

Still quite productive offensively while sporting the second best +/- on the Lightning last year. However, the huge fact is that he is turning 34 by the time the season starts. If Alex wants to play closer to home, he will need to accept the term being short. I don't mind a fair cap hit though, as long as it is for a 1-2 year term.

I'd much rather ice a Killorn than guys like Hoffman or Dadonov, who are the same age.

Every winning team needs SOME vets. If Alex Killorn wants to finish his career here, at diminishing salary in proportion to production drops, I would not rule it out.

I hear that... Obviously a short term contract makes more sense for us.

3@5M would be the ideal, 4 is what I think it would take to keep the $ number lower than the UFA premium offers he'll be choosing from.

Realistically, if he did sign anywhere for 1-2 years, he'll be getting much more than 5M imo. Perry, at 38, just got 4M... Killorn getting double that on a 1-2 year deal wouldn't be much of a surprise.

5M/per would be leaving considerable $ on the table in the short term, and with his durability, versatility and approach to the game, Id bet he plans to play till his late 30's & has a good shot at doing so. I'm not too worried that in year 3, or 4 if it takes that, he'll still be impactful enough to be worth 5M$ against the cap, especially banking on the cap rising and us having 4-5 quality contributors on ELC or first RFA deals.

Gamble, but for many reasons I think worth it.

 

[The Nightman]

3 years for 36 y/o Ryan Reaves…

Talk about, Tre-living in the past.

 

[HabsWhiteKnightLOL]

''a fan favorite ''
2 games in when he will be -4 , leafs fans gonna want him to retire

 

[salbutera]

Omg this is hilarious. Toronto never disappoints.

 

[Andrei79]

To know Comtois very well (We where in the same class in many class in CEGEP back then and we where sitting together), absolutely 0 chance he's involved in that

He's with the same girlfriend since Secondary school and very loyal, 0 "player" type of person, almost never drink alcool, 0 party type of guy

Any idea what happened to him ? He was real good his first year but apparently has had conditioning issues.

 

[pickles555]

What is this new narrative that PLD did not want to come here?

He wasn’t a UFA, it wasn’t for him to decide.

If he wanted to come here, he could have done so next summer,

If he wanted to come here, he wouldn't sign for 8 years in LA

 

[durojean]

What is this new narrative that PLD did not want to come here?

He wasn’t a UFA, it wasn’t for him to decide.

He signe a 8 years deal elsewhere which means he didn’t want to be a Habs enough.

It also means he doesn’t have any reason anymore for his bad plays with Winnipeg and Colombus shen he apparently wanted to be traded to MTL.

It shiw a lot about him and his character. Time to move on from him.

 

[Vachon23]

Any idea what happened to him ? He was real good his first year but apparently has had conditioning issues.

Lost his confidence

He was in a family where he was the only son and he’s the type of person that need to be says that he’s good to feel confident.