Player Discussion Rem Pitlick - The New Byron Edition

[MasterD]

He played at a 46pts/season pace last year, both in Minnesota and Montreal. On a last place team. For cheap. I'd sign him around 1.5M/2M$ easily. Heck I take him before a bunch of guys on this team including Byron, Armia, Hoffman... Hugues just needs to move someone to make some room on the cap and contract number.

 

[Natey]

He produced at roughly the same PPG pace with the Wild as he did with us and they waived him. You don't overpay a guy you picked on waivers and played with you for a half season.

FWIW I'm sure its a negotiation tactic and Pitlick will be back with a reasonable contract. He won't have the same opportunity on other teams as he will have here.

Sure, but the Wild was also a small sample size. It was part of a season. He came here and posted very good numbers for the rest of the season.

I wouldn't be overpaying him for years, but I have a hard time believing you couldn't get a 5th for him.

 

[1909]

The problem is that Habs have an abundance of signed wingers to deal with: Hoffman, Dadonov, Drouin, Anderson, Caufield, Gally, Armia, Byron.

 

[dcyhabs]

The problem is that Habs have an abundance of signed wingers to deal with: Hoffman, Dadonov, Drouin, Anderson, Caufield, Gally, Armia, Byron.

And they want to keep who? Caufield and maybe Anderson? Possbily Armia? Pitlick doesn't have much value but at least they don't need to jettison him.

 

[1909]

And they want to keep who? Caufield and maybe Anderson? Possbily Armia? Pitlick doesn't have much value but at least they don't need to jettison him.

They have to keep Gally. Untradable with his actual contract.

 

[Matthew McConaughay]

I think Rem is cheap, and provides some good offense, and he's good defensively too.

 

[BaseballCoach]

Basically trying to avoid overpaying or having another Byron contract.

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[BaseballCoach]

Basically trying to avoid overpaying or having another Byron contract.

The QO is only for one year, and the club simply cannot be forced into a Byron style 4 year deal, never mind that Byron was 30 when it started and not 25.

If Rem chooses arbitration, we can pick one year, and if the award is over $4.5M, we can still walk from it.

So the reason to not qualify Rem Pitlick would be if it is too plausible that an arbitrator would peg his value at something more than we would be comfortable with, example $3M.

Perhaps the best route is simply to offer him a 2 or 3 year deal at a salary the club is happy with and not risk arbitration. Perhaps at a bit more than Evans got. The it would come down to whether Rem is comfortable in the Habs organizaiton that is the first to give him a real chance.

 

[26Mats]

The problem is that Habs have an abundance of signed wingers to deal with: Hoffman, Dadonov, Drouin, Anderson, Caufield, Gally, Armia, Byron.

And now with Dach, one of Evan's, Poehling, or Dach should be on the wing and in the lineup every night.

Really gotta move out at least 2 vets.

 

[blarneylad]

And now with Dach, one of Evan's, Poehling, or Dach should be on the wing and in the lineup every night.

Really gotta move out at least 2 vets.

I love Poehlings speed and size on the wing. He doesn’t look like a pro centermen to me.

One of Hoffman/Drouin needs to go.

 

[1909]

And now with Dach, one of Evan's, Poehling, or Dach should be on the wing and in the lineup every night.

Really gotta move out at least 2 vets.

I guess Poehling would have to play LW or be the #13 forward.

 

[morhilane]

I guess Poehling would have to play LW or be the #13 forward.

I've been waiting for years for him to be traded.

 

[1909]

I've been waiting for years for him to be traded.

Me too.... One of the few who regressed under MSL.

 

[26Mats]

Me too.... One of the few who regressed under MSL.

He was ascending under MSL until he got a concussion.

 

[morhilane]

He was ascending under MSL until he got a concussion.

That's basically what happened to him every seasons so far...

 

[26Mats]

That's basically what happened to him every seasons so far...

Yes, if he can't stay healthy, he's done.

I'm really hoping he can this year

 

[Whitesnake]

You sign him. You trade the others.

 

[crazyd74]

I love Poehlings speed and size on the wing. He doesn’t look like a pro centermen to me.

One of Hoffman/Drouin needs to go.

Both need to go along with Armia and Byron on LTIR.

 

[Hannibal]

Renaud Lavoie said that if he’s not sign past monday, he doesn’t expect him to be back… so we’ll see.

 

[Pompeius Magnus]

I would sure hate to just lose him He fits really well in our mix and he's still young enough to be around for a while . I hope he'll be willing to do business on this.

 

[JoelWarlord]

I hope he comes back but I think it's correct to not qualify him if you can't make a deal. Don't really want to go to arbitration with him.

 

[the]

One of the few rare players we had that was fun to watch. What a shame if we lose him, he’s more valuable than most players we had in our roster last season.

 

[BaseballCoach]

I hope he comes back but I think it's correct to not qualify him if you can't make a deal. Don't really want to go to arbitration with him.

Unless Pitlick signs cheap for 3 years similar to Evans contract, we can only keep him if we shed another contract, and the decision on qualifying him has to be made ny tomorrow. Any arbitration award under $4.5M we would be stuck with, unable to walk away. And if we qualify him, we can do mothing to stop himfrom going to arbitration.

Even though I like Rem, we can more easily afford to lose him than to give away an Anderson, Petry or Dvorak in order to keep him.

 

[Le Barron de HF]

Don't see the point of not QOing him. Unless I'm mistaken even if his arbitration case awards him a big salary, we can simply walk away no?

 

[beowulf]

The problem is that Habs have an abundance of signed wingers to deal with: Hoffman, Dadonov, Drouin, Anderson, Caufield, Gally, Armia, Byron.

And comparing his play last year to most of those guys, I'd take Pitlick especially over drouin and Anderson