HF Habs: The official 2023-2024 tank thread

[McGees]

 

[Max2]

Tage Frankenstein

 

[Tuggy]

Team looking rough tonight

 

[Lafleurs Guy]

Team unexpectedly beat Dallas and unexpectedly lost to Buffalo. I’m good either way.

Dvorak’s another injury up front. We’ll be bottom ten, maybe even bottom five.

 

[TheFutureisBright]

I'm confident that Habs will have a top 10 pick this year. It's will difficult to predict when Habs are going before the Lottery Day, but bottom 10 finish looks like a the most realistic so far. I'm confident that we are going to have a really really good offensive prospect.

This draft looks stacked on D, but have solid offensive forward aswell.

Which is what we all said in last year's draft.....

 

[HabSgt]

Hey guys, how y'all been?

Sooooooo...Celebrini?

 

[DAChampion]

Hey guys, how y'all been?

Sooooooo...Celebrini?

Would end the rebuild.

 

[Non Player Canadiens]

tank or compete for #8 spot?

team's always teetering on the edge, thanks Bettman

 

[rahad]

Not a big fan of Newhook.
I hope Joshua Roy arrives soon.

Don't know if Roy is going to make it to the NHl next year or not. Also Newhook contract is very easy to trade at only 2.9m. We still need another good top 6 forward to play with Dach.

 

[Gravity]

Need Celebrini or Catton. This is likely our last chance to draft a true impact F/C.

 

[Naslund]

Sloppy game for many. Slaf was tired after the first. Struble was not as sharp as usual. Matheson, Evans sleeping on the PK. Kind of expected after coming back from the 7-away game Christmas trip. Don't be hard on the boys, the season has these games that are difficult to win because of the schedule. They have been playing a lot of hockey lately. They are playing well most of the times, the kids are developing, and we will be picking 1-8 in the next draft. Best outcome on all points.

This team is not winning anything anyway before the Gallagher contract is dealt with, and this will take a few more years. Patience.

 

[Walksss]

Very big loss, I'm a huge fan of losing games to awful teams. I've learned to love it. Let's get some more L's baby.

 

[The Great Weal]

As per the Habs luck, we will get the 2nd OA where there isn’t a slam dunk obvious pick.

 

[26Mats]

As per the Habs luck, we will get the 2nd OA where there isn’t a slam dunk obvious pick.

We'd be damn lucky to get the 2nd overall pick in this year's draft.

I would be over the moon.

 

[26Mats]

The standings are looking pretty good now.

Currently we sit 8th last, with Buffalo and Minnesota breathing down our necks. If we could finish 6th last, I think that would be a win, all things considered.

Would be great if Ottawa and/or Columbus could get it together and we could finish 4th or 5th last.

 

[salbutera]

We'd be damn lucky to get the 2nd overall pick in this year's draft.

I would be over the moon.

Yup - bells & whistles …gladly take Eiserman

 

[Nico Cauzuki]

Dvorak gone for the season and Monahan hopefully traded soon

Habs would drop hard in the standings

 

[salbutera]

Dvorak gone for the season and Monahan hopefully traded soon

Habs would drop hard in the standings

All meaningless unless there’s lottery luck in the end

 

[JoelWarlord]

Sabres and Wild just 1 point back of us now, and we're inching closer and closer to Columbus with each loss. Sens are terrible but we have to assume that they'll pass us too, they're just too talented not to finish ahead of us IMO. It's looking like we're on track for 28th or 29th place depending on how Columbus does in the 2nd half.

 

[Nico Cauzuki]

All meaningless unless there’s lottery luck in the end

could be the difference between drafting 5th instead of 10th

 

[morhilane]

Dvorak gone for the season and Monahan hopefully traded soon

Habs would drop hard in the standings

Dvorak was playing like a replaceable bottom 6 player, one of RHP/Pearson will easily replace his "contribution" once they come back in about ~2.5 weeks.

Monahan getting traded will probably not change that much either, since the trade deadline is around when Newhook is supposed to come back.

 

[Lshap]

All meaningless unless there’s lottery luck in the end

I'll take drafting luck over lottery luck. I'd rather our scouts pick the better player than our team be given the better draft #.

 

[The Great Weal]

We'd be damn lucky to get the 2nd overall pick in this year's draft.

I would be over the moon.

Don’t think there’s a big difference between 2 and some picks after that. That’s not to say that I’d be sad, but we need that 1st OA badly.

 

[Benstheman]

I hope they keep riding the 3 goalies until deadline and they trade Moneyhands sooner than later. That's what i think would be the biggest part in falling down the standings. But no matter what happens, we will finish somewhere between 6OA and 8OA.

 

[rochab]

I don't see how we finish in the top three without help from the lottery....

Other good news for the tank...

As of today we have the 4th hardest remaining schedule. The next closest team of the bottom 10 right now is Columbus, who has the 17th hardest remaining schedule.