Confirmed with Link: Sean Monahan signs one-year contract extension ($1.985M AAV + $15K bonus for 26 games played)

[sampollock]

he is a great player with attitude. have a great season
and he is not old either

 

[The Gr8 Dane]

What the heck, this is great!

 

[26Mats]

Dvorak is not trade yet, but Monohan does not sign here to play wing or 4C. A 1 year deal is for him to rebound and make sure he can extend his career. So he's either 2C or 3C. Based on risk, you can rely on him for 2C so a more reasonable guess here is that they told him he'll be 3C.

That make Dvrorak expendable. so you either package him for PLD or a RD somewhere.

I'd love to get Dvo's trade value up before we move him. Imo his offensive tools are perfect for playing wing with good offensive players.

Caufield - Suzuki - Dvorak
RHP - Dach - Anderson
Slaf - Monahan - Gurianov
Gallagher - Evan's - Ylonen
Pez, Belzile

May be many more moves so hard to fill everything else. But ideally that's where I want Dvo to get his trade value up. I think he could put up 50 to 60 points.

 

[The Gr8 Dane]

You can tell we haven't had many top 6 players in our years here recently when a broken down Monahan came in and was visually our third best forward to watch in his short spurts healthy last year

 

[26Mats]

he is a great player with attitude. have a great season
and he is not old either

Just has to stay healthy. I'm not saying he will. But I do believe he can.

As we all know if he does get hurt. He has to not play through it. He has to sit and he as l and then come back 100%.

 

[sampollock]

I'd love to get Dvo's trade value up before we move him. Imo his offensive tools are perfect for playing wing with good offensive players.

Caufield - Suzuki - Dvorak
RHP - Dach - Anderson
Slaf - Monahan - Gurianov
Gallagher - Evan's - Ylonen
Pez, Belzile

May be many more moves so hard to fill everything else. But ideally that's where I want Dvo to get his trade value up. I think he could put up 50 to 60 points.

man still makes me mad to see Gally on the 4th line.... where he belongs but at that the coin... grrrr

 

[Rapala]

Good. Now trade dvo to Winnipeg in a PLD trade.

LOL I somehow doubt having to give up Dvo was holding up the deal or any deal for that matter.

 

[Nico Cauzuki]

So far

Caufield - Suzuki - Dach
Slafkovsky - Monahan - Anderson
Heineman - Dvorak - Gallagher
RHP - Evans - Armia/Hoffman
Ylonen

we let Gurianov walk

 

[26Mats]

You can tell we haven't had many top 6 players in our years here recently when a broken down Monahan came in and was visually our third best forward to watch in his short spurts healthy last year

Yep, but then Dach emerged, and even RHP, and even Anderson got better.

So right now I'd peg a healthy Monahan to be our 4th best forward behind Dach. But RHP and Anderson would give him a run for his money.

 

[Kosseca]

Another though... I think that slakovsky played his best hockey on Monohan wing, not sure if other agree. So there may be a mentoring angle to this too.

CC - Suzuki - RHP
Anderson - Dach - Hoffman
Slaf - Monohan - Gally
Pezz - Evans - Armia

If you get PLD, you drop Pezz to the press box, and hoffman to 3r or 4th.

 

[Rapala]

Nice signing. Less than $2M. Hopefully he remains healthy and can be flipped at the TDL.



So the games played bonus brings him exactly at $2M.

God****it I hope if he hurts his foot or big toe he isn't pushing to get back in the lineup for a measly 15K.

 

[26Mats]

So far

Dach - Suzuki - Caufield
Slafkovsky - Monahan - Anderson
Heineman - Dvorak - Gallagher
RHP - Evans - Armia/Hoffman
Ylonen

we let Gurianov walk

Imo, don't separate RHP and Anderson. Anderson had the best production per game in his career once RHP was called up.

Let's see if he can keep it up. If he can't, he can't. But let's see.

 

[Leon Lucius Black]

Even if he only plays 20 or so games again, it never hurts having leaders around our younger guys.

From all reports, he sounded like a great teammate and was well liked.

 

[Sorinth]

Happy enough with the signing. He's a good guy to have around the team and he can help teach the young guys how to be a pro even if he misses a bunch of games with injury. And if he is relatively healthy that's even better.

 

[MarkovsKnee]

Soooo, we try again for that 1st round pick at TD but in 2024!

Good contract.

 

[The Gr8 Dane]

Another though... I think that slakovsky played his best hockey on Monohan wing, not sure if other agree. So there may be a mentoring angle to this too.

CC - Suzuki - RHP
Anderson - Dach - Hoffman
Slaf - Monohan - Gally
Pezz - Evans - Armia

If you get PLD, you drop Pezz to the press box, and hoffman to 3r or 4th.

Slfa had his best games playing with Monahan in my opinion

 

[Kosseca]

Imo, don't separate RHP and Anderson. Anderson had the best production per game in his career once RHP was called up.

Let's see if he can keep it up. If he can't, he can't. But let's see.

That is a good point....

CC - Suzuki - [PLD]
Anderson - Dach - RHP
Slav - Monohan - Gally

 

[xX SEYF Xx]

If none of Drouin, Gurianov, Belzile, Byron and Tierney returns, we'd still have 15 forwards as of now

1. Suzuki
2. Caufield
3. Dach
4. Slafkovsky
5. Monahan
6. Evans
7. Pitlick
8. Pezzetta
9. Ylonen
10. RHP
11. Anderson
12. Gallagher
13. Armia
14. Hoffman
15. Dvorak

 

[Rapala]

Monahan is back, at a super cheap price tag too (which makes it easier to move at the deadline). I really liked him last year until he got injured.

And that makes Dvorak (or Evans) very expendable.

Part of getting good means both those players are fodder eventually.

 

[Simarino]

Not really excited or disappointed in this signing. He'll play well for a while until he gets hurt again. Good player, good guy but he's got a lot of miles on him. Decent short term signing

As long as he is healthy by TDL next year, if he's performing at the same level, he's going to bring back a 1st round pick..Its a great deal

 

[Barriwhite]

That's a strange bonus, $15,000 only?

I think this is a good move! Depth is always appreciated and Monahan definitely must've impressed MSL and the organization enough to stick around. Good for him and for the Habs to give this another go. If Monahan was unhappy I think he could've found c. 2m somewhere else on the open market but he chose to stick around with the Habs. A good sign that Hughes is building something attractive for players and this is IN SPITE of the losing record. I can imagine how much more exciting this organization will be to other players when we start competing for the big prize.

It has to be 15k per game played, otherwise this is a head scratcher!

 

[SwiftyHab]

PLD, Dach, and Monahan are all fairly versatile centres who can and have played wing when needed. Don’t think this trade changes anything else except it does help stabilize the first two lines

 

[Pompeius Magnus]

Very low risk in both term and money . I do hope this means Dvorak is all but gone .

 

[Simarino]

If none of Drouin, Gurianov, Belzile, Byron and Tierney returns, we'd still have 15 forwards as of now

1. Suzuki
2. Caufield
3. Dach
4. Slafkovsky
5. Monahan
6. Evans
7. Pitlick
8. Pezzetta
9. Ylonen
10. RHP
11. Anderson
12. Gallagher
13. Armia
14. Hoffman
15. Dvorak

Heineman is an NHL player, they need to get rid of at least 2 of the bottom 5 players on your list

 

[Rapala]

You can tell we haven't had many top 6 players in our years here recently when a broken down Monahan came in and was visually our third best forward to watch in his short spurts healthy last year

Yeah remember how a washed up Ilya Kovalchuk moved the fan base.