The state of the Habs Rebuild - The Next step

[CoopersFalls]

Top 6 could sure use Michkov right now

 

[morhilane]

7-8 years of rebuilding means the oldest of our core will have passed their prime by then. Right now, Suzuki is 25, Caufield and Dach are turning 24 in 6-7 weeks. There's a very finite window where our young vets are in their prime at the same time as our best prospects.

Suzuki/CC/Dach/Newhook either managed to be so good that the rebuild was going to be shortened or there to be transition players.

Currently, they look like transition players, since HuGo haven't acquire and/or kept talent to go along with them to speed the rest up:
- a A1 goalie
- a top 4 RHD (or two depending how you look at it)
- a dependable 2 line center

They are in the pipeline thought (if they pan out), so in 5 years, the core could very well be Slaf/Lane/Vanya/Hage/Rein/Beck/Fowler...

 

[yianik]

7-8 years of rebuilding means the oldest of our core will have passed their prime by then. Right now, Suzuki is 25, Caufield and Dach are turning 24 in 6-7 weeks. There's a very finite window where our young vets are in their prime at the same time as our best prospects.

Likely we can't wait for an alignment whereby we mostly drafted all the key pieces we need. So through UFAs and trade maybe we speed it up. For example, we trade Mailloux plus for Andersson after next July 1 and extend him, then we have a top 3D and maybe extend Savard for 2 years until Reinbacher is ready. In the meantime we can make do.

The critical missing pieces are a top pair RHD a 2C and a starting goalie. Winger wise we should be fine top 6 and then lots of young guys with a few vets to fill the bottom 6.

 

[Grate n Colorful Oz]

7-8 years of rebuilding means the oldest of our core will have passed their prime by then. Right now, Suzuki is 25, Caufield and Dach are turning 24 in 6-7 weeks. There's a very finite window where our young vets are in their prime at the same time as our best prospects.

Most elite players are still elite between 30 and 33 years old. This whole window thing is an exageration. Suzuki and Caufield will more than likely still be very valuable at 30 years old.

This vision is also based on an assumption that Caufield and Suzuki are the ultimate central core being built on, when it is also as likely that they aren't. It is rather more likely that the players who we will have drafted since 2022 will be more important to the team. Hutson, Slaf, Demidov, Hage, Reinbacher, Fowler and whoever else we draft next will form a major core of their own, light years more impactful than the tiny core of Caufield, Suzuki and Guhle, who won't even be that old at that point and will be a much needed veteran presence.

 

[Mrb1p]

Suzuki/CC/Dach/Newhook either managed to be so good that the rebuild was going to be shortened or there to be transition players.

Currently, they look like transition players, since HuGo haven't acquire and/or kept talent to go along with them to speed the rest up:
- a A1 goalie
- a top 4 RHD (or two depending how you look at it)
- a dependable 2 line center

They are in the pipeline thought (if they pan out), so in 5 years, the core could very well be Slaf/Lane/Vanya/Hage/Rein/Beck/Fowler...

How is a top 15, probably nearing top 10, center a transitional player?

We haven't had a forward this valuable since fricking Lafleur what are we doing with this f***ing rebuild.