Tanking for Alexis Lafreniere

[26Mats]

Kind of crazy how we lose Tatar and the team falls completely into tank mode and the offense is non-existent. Even Gallagher is struggling just to get shots on net.

Overall it's a good thing, but boy, does it show the complete lack of depth on the team.

Hall (or Lafreniere) would be a godsend. But I'd still like to see Kovalchuk and Hoffman added, since we're not going to do a full rebuild. But whatever I want heading into the offseason, MB rarely does.

 

[jaffy27]

They will probably bring a Habs legend to make the pick.

Weal can’t speak French though....

 

[jaffy27]

I'm pretty confident Chicago will pass us. So, I'm rooting for San Jose and holding out hope we're so bad they can also pass us.

We are losing all our games out west.....I’d be floored if we picked up more than 6pts from here on end

 

[Mike Towers]

I remember when Buffalo tanked hard during the McDavid draft. They traded their best goalie and lost so much they were by far the worst team. The GM even talked about picturomg McDavid in a Sabres jersey. They lost the lottery, but got Eichel, and then Dahlin. I'd gladly take a player like those two.

Tatar injury was a huge blessing in disguise.

Not just Buffalo the Oilers and Coyotes tanked as well....Oilers traded Perron,Petry,Derek Roy....Coyotes traded Vermette and Yandle.....Oilers finished 3rd worst but won the lottery it comes down to who gets lucky on draft lottery day.

 

[Deebs]

Hall (or Lafreniere) would be a godsend. But I'd still like to see Kovalchuk and Hoffman added, since we're not going to do a full rebuild. But whatever I want heading into the offseason, MB rarely does.

Pass on Kovalchuk unless it's an extremely team friendly, 1 year deal. He'll need to be on a load management schedule.

 

[26Mats]

Not just Buffalo the Oilers and Coyotes tanked as well....Oilers traded Perron,Petry,Derek Roy....Coyotes traded Vermette and Yandle.....Oilers finished 3rd worst but won the lottery it comes down to who gets lucky on draft lottery day.

That was one really deep first round:

McDavid
Eichel
Strome
Marner
Hanafin
Poporov
Werenski
Meier
Rantanen
DeBrusk
Barzal
Kyle Connor
Thomas Chabot
Ilya Samsonov
Brock Boeser
Travis Konecky
Anthony Beauvillier
(Noah Juulsen?)

1	1	Edmonton	Connor McDavid	C	Erie Otters [OHL]	350	161	307	468	118	2019-20
1	2	Buffalo	Jack Eichel	C	Boston University [H-East]	354	137	200	337	136	2019-20
1	3	Arizona	Dylan Strome	C	Erie Otters [OHL]	163	36	68	104	42	2019-20
1	4	Toronto	Mitch Marner	R	London Knights [OHL]	300	83	208	291	102	2019-20
1	5	Carolina	Noah Hanifin	D	Boston College [H-East]	389	28	110	138	93	2019-20
1	6	New Jersey	Pavel Zacha	C	Sarnia Sting [OHL]	266	37	71	108	78	2019-20
1	7	Philadelphia	Ivan Provorov	D	Brandon Wheat Kings [WHL]	315	43	90	133	110	2019-20
1	8	Columbus	Zach Werenski	D	U. of Michigan [Big-10]	300	58	111	169	58	2019-20
1	9	San Jose	Timo Meier	R	Halifax Mooseheads [QMJHL]	262	75	80	155	158	2019-20
1	10	Colorado	Mikko Rantanen	R	TPS Turku [SM-liiga]	281	99	151	250	126	2019-20
1	11	Florida	Lawson Crouse	L	Kingston Frontenacs [OHL]	230	32	31	63	155	2019-20
1	12	Dallas	Denis Gurianov	R	Tolyatti (Russia Jrs.)	86	21	12	33	13	2019-20
1	13	Boston	Jakub Zboril	D	Saint John Sea Dogs [QMJHL]	2	0	0	0	0	2018-19
1	14	Boston	Jake DeBrusk	L	Swift Current Broncos [WHL]	203	62	58	120	51	2019-20
1	15	Boston	Zachary Senyshyn	R	Soo Greyhounds [OHL]	6	1	2	3	0	2019-20
1	16	NY Islanders	Mathew Barzal	C	Seattle Thunderbirds [WHL]	234	59	148	207	126	2019-20
1	17	Winnipeg	Kyle Connor	L	Youngstown Phantoms [USHL]	248	103	96	199	70	2019-20
1	18	Ottawa	Thomas Chabot	D	Saint John Sea Dogs [QMJHL]	204	29	90	119	86	2019-20
1	19	Detroit	Evgeny Svechnikov	R	Cape Breton Screaming Eagles [QMJHL]	20	2	2	4	10	2019-20
1	20	Minnesota	Joel Eriksson Ek	C	Farjestads BK Karlstad [SweHL]	210	24	42	66	68	2019-20
1	21	Ottawa	Colin White	C	U.S. National Development Team [USHL]	154	23	46	69	66	2019-20
1	22	Washington	Ilya Samsonov	G	Magnitogorsk-2 (Russia Jrs.)	26	0	0	0	2	2019-20
1	23	Vancouver	Brock Boeser	R	Waterloo Black Hawks [USHL]	197	75	86	161	52	2019-20
1	24	Philadelphia	Travis Konecny	R	Ottawa 67's [OHL]	299	83	102	185	163	2019-20
1	25	Winnipeg	Jack Roslovic	C	U.S. National Development Team [USHL]	179	26	41	67	18	2019-20
1	26	Montreal	Noah Juulsen	D	Everett Silvertips [WHL]	44	2	6	8	10	2018-19
1	27	Anaheim	Jacob Larsson	D	Frolunda Jrs. (Sweden)	112	2	14	16	30	2019-20
1	28	NY Islanders	Anthony Beauvillier	L	Shawinigan Cataractes [QMJHL]	286	66	61	127	49	2019-20
1	29	Columbus	Gabriel Carlsson	D	Linkopings Jrs. (Sweden)	23	0	3	3	8	2019-20
1	30	Arizona	Nick Merkley	R	Kelowna Rockets [WHL]	5	1	1	2	4	2019-20

[TBODY] [/TBODY]

 

[Grand Admiral Thrawn]

It will be hard to catch all 3 of Ottawa, San Jose, and L.A. in tank wars. But if we really tank hard, we should catch at least one of them. That would give us 4th best lottery odds at Lafreniere. Not bad.

Man did Dorion ever do well with the Karlsson trade: a likely 2nd or 3rd lottery slot, two 2nds, Josh Norris, Dylan Demelo, and Chris Tierney... Ottawa could have 1st and 2nd pick in an amazing draft, and almost surely 2 of the top 6. All for Erik injury prone, past his prime, soon to be albatross contract Karlsson.

Tell me about it.

Can you imagine they end up going 1 and 2??

Do you get Laffer + Byfield LW + big Center or Laffer + Stutzy LW + RW.

Either way they could end up with 2 pics in top 5. There's an instant turn around.

In 3 years time, Sens will be way ahead of the Habs in rebuild and overall talent!

Sad but you are right, they killed it with the Karlsson trade. Karma I guess for the Duchesne trade!

 

[De Montreal]

Hall (or Lafreniere) would be a godsend. But I'd still like to see Kovalchuk and Hoffman added, since we're not going to do a full rebuild. But whatever I want heading into the offseason, MB rarely does.

Lafrenière - Danault - Gallagher
Tatar - Suzuki - Domi
Hall - Kotkaniemi - Drouin
Lehkonen - Evans - Armia

 

[G0bias]

Lafrenière - Danault - Gallagher
Tatar - Suzuki - Domi
Hall - Kotkaniemi - Drouin
Lehkonen - Evans - Armia

Can already picture Lafrenière barely containing himself.

 

[Pompeius Magnus]

Can already picture Lafrenière barely containing himself.

While I on the other hand would be like

 

[habsfan92]

Lafrenière - Danault - Gallagher
Tatar - Suzuki - Domi
Hall - Kotkaniemi - Drouin
Lehkonen - Evans - Armia

If this was the case, Drouin should be moved for D help, or was Byron moved for that already?

 

[MarkovsKnee]

If Tatar and Drouin come back, we're basically icing the team that had a good start to the year - and playing a bunch of non-playoff teams except for Colorado and Toronto.

I can't see Tatar coming back. The whole "ruled out surgery" comments probably just means he's got a lot of physical therapy to go through.

Drouin is a game time decision for tomorrow, so he'll be back. He said he wants to get some games in since he hasn't played a lot this year, which is true.

 

[26Mats]

I can't see Tatar coming back. The whole "ruled out surgery" comments probably just means he's got a lot of physical therapy to go through.

Drouin is a game time decision for tomorrow, so he'll be back. He said he wants to get some games in since he hasn't played a lot this year, which is true.

Arghhh

 

[malton]

With the way the Islanders are playing Ottawa could have 3 picks in the top 10

 

[cphabs]

Seriously, even if we get the 1st or trade for it? Spare Laffreniere from the absolute shit storm his career would be under our management. It would make Drouin’s tenure look like a success.

 

[26Mats]

With the way the Islanders are playing Ottawa could have 3 picks in the top 10

This is unbelievable for them.

 

[Kudo Shinichi]

With the way the Islanders are playing Ottawa could have 3 picks in the top 10

Thats an exaggeration
The islanders are currently the 14th best team in the league, and 2 pts away from being top 10.

 

[CHfan1]

Thats an exaggeration
The islanders are currently the 14th best team in the league, and 2 pts away from being top 10.

And 3 points away from being 21st in the league. They have also lost 7 straight games.

 

[Omar]

We’re 4 points out of the bottom five with the teams behind us having multiple games in hand. We have to lose to Buffalo. It’s a huge chance for us.

 

[MarkovsKnee]

May not matter soon, but Hawks won and passed us. Sitting 8th.

If they do suspend or cancel the rest of the season, and they do the lottery by points percentage, we're 6th.

Stay healthy!

 

[HuGo Sham]

May not matter soon, but Hawks won and passed us. Sitting 8th.

If they do suspend or cancel the rest of the season, and they do the lottery by points percentage, we're 6th.

Stay healthy!

so you're saying there is an upside to this pandemic!

 

[jaffy27]

That was one really deep first round:

McDavid
Eichel
Strome
Marner
Hanafin
Poporov
Werenski
Meier
Rantanen
DeBrusk
Barzal
Kyle Connor
Thomas Chabot
Ilya Samsonov
Brock Boeser
Travis Konecky
Anthony Beauvillier
(Noah Juulsen?)

1	1	Edmonton	Connor McDavid	C	Erie Otters [OHL]	350	161	307	468	118	2019-20
1	2	Buffalo	Jack Eichel	C	Boston University [H-East]	354	137	200	337	136	2019-20
1	3	Arizona	Dylan Strome	C	Erie Otters [OHL]	163	36	68	104	42	2019-20
1	4	Toronto	Mitch Marner	R	London Knights [OHL]	300	83	208	291	102	2019-20
1	5	Carolina	Noah Hanifin	D	Boston College [H-East]	389	28	110	138	93	2019-20
1	6	New Jersey	Pavel Zacha	C	Sarnia Sting [OHL]	266	37	71	108	78	2019-20
1	7	Philadelphia	Ivan Provorov	D	Brandon Wheat Kings [WHL]	315	43	90	133	110	2019-20
1	8	Columbus	Zach Werenski	D	U. of Michigan [Big-10]	300	58	111	169	58	2019-20
1	9	San Jose	Timo Meier	R	Halifax Mooseheads [QMJHL]	262	75	80	155	158	2019-20
1	10	Colorado	Mikko Rantanen	R	TPS Turku [SM-liiga]	281	99	151	250	126	2019-20
1	11	Florida	Lawson Crouse	L	Kingston Frontenacs [OHL]	230	32	31	63	155	2019-20
1	12	Dallas	Denis Gurianov	R	Tolyatti (Russia Jrs.)	86	21	12	33	13	2019-20
1	13	Boston	Jakub Zboril	D	Saint John Sea Dogs [QMJHL]	2	0	0	0	0	2018-19
1	14	Boston	Jake DeBrusk	L	Swift Current Broncos [WHL]	203	62	58	120	51	2019-20
1	15	Boston	Zachary Senyshyn	R	Soo Greyhounds [OHL]	6	1	2	3	0	2019-20
1	16	NY Islanders	Mathew Barzal	C	Seattle Thunderbirds [WHL]	234	59	148	207	126	2019-20
1	17	Winnipeg	Kyle Connor	L	Youngstown Phantoms [USHL]	248	103	96	199	70	2019-20
1	18	Ottawa	Thomas Chabot	D	Saint John Sea Dogs [QMJHL]	204	29	90	119	86	2019-20
1	19	Detroit	Evgeny Svechnikov	R	Cape Breton Screaming Eagles [QMJHL]	20	2	2	4	10	2019-20
1	20	Minnesota	Joel Eriksson Ek	C	Farjestads BK Karlstad [SweHL]	210	24	42	66	68	2019-20
1	21	Ottawa	Colin White	C	U.S. National Development Team [USHL]	154	23	46	69	66	2019-20
1	22	Washington	Ilya Samsonov	G	Magnitogorsk-2 (Russia Jrs.)	26	0	0	0	2	2019-20
1	23	Vancouver	Brock Boeser	R	Waterloo Black Hawks [USHL]	197	75	86	161	52	2019-20
1	24	Philadelphia	Travis Konecny	R	Ottawa 67's [OHL]	299	83	102	185	163	2019-20
1	25	Winnipeg	Jack Roslovic	C	U.S. National Development Team [USHL]	179	26	41	67	18	2019-20
1	26	Montreal	Noah Juulsen	D	Everett Silvertips [WHL]	44	2	6	8	10	2018-19
1	27	Anaheim	Jacob Larsson	D	Frolunda Jrs. (Sweden)	112	2	14	16	30	2019-20
1	28	NY Islanders	Anthony Beauvillier	L	Shawinigan Cataractes [QMJHL]	286	66	61	127	49	2019-20
1	29	Columbus	Gabriel Carlsson	D	Linkopings Jrs. (Sweden)	23	0	3	3	8	2019-20
1	30	Arizona	Nick Merkley	R	Kelowna Rockets [WHL]	5	1	1	2	4	2019-20

[TBODY] [/TBODY]

I was at that draft, was down in Miami doing training and scored a few tickets.....cool to see McDavid get drafted.
But wtf, beer was 15$ per, scored 3 beer and 3 hotdogs and it cost me like 80$ USD with tip lol

 

[jaffy27]

Lafrenière - Danault - Gallagher
Tatar - Suzuki - Domi
Hall - Kotkaniemi - Drouin
Lehkonen - Evans - Armia

Danault as our 1st line centre??

who’s going 1st overall in 2021 lol

 

[Gravity]

Next two games are must lose for top 5 to become possible.

 

[Non Player Canadiens]

Next two games are must lose for top 5 to become possible.

welp they're probably canceling the season tomorrow, so...