The state of the Habs Rebuild - The Next step

[Grate n Colorful Oz]

What I said was we don't need a DREW DOUGHTY Norris winning Dman to be the RD1

Doughty isn't that anymore, so sorry for presuming you meant what he is right now rather than what he was.

 

[Theodore450]

The goal should be to find a 2C to play with demidov and Laine for next season. Maybe add another top 4 D to replace Matheson and help Hutson out

 

[Lafleurs Guy]

It's because you unequivocally need someone better on RD ANYway in the long run, even with Matheson 'not playing so bad it hurts us' at the moment

It's not that there's a 'rush' to get rid of him in of itself
It's about the clock ticking on his contract, and there's a HUGE risk his buddy Kent simply re-signs him to above 6M for a guy who will ultimately be in the way of 'all' our LD's, and rely on him to be a RD into his mid 30's?
Ugh, can't happen
Better not happen

And it needs to be addressed THIS offseason.

I’m not opposed to a trade. I think you’re right in the long run.

 

[Lafleurs Guy]

I'm not sure, but I feel like this is a long running issue for you, you want Caulfield to get as much or more praise than Suzuki.

And that's a perfectly reasonable take. But I personally think Suzuki is the more valuable player.

Suzuki has been our best player since day one. I think there was an 80 game stretch split between two years where I’d have taken CC but year by year it’s been Suzuki and not really anyone else who’s close.
My belief in Caufield rests on his potential, always has been.

As for this year, I wouldn’t argue hard for him over Suzuki this season because Nick does so much for the club in terms of defensive play. Overall I’d give the edge to Caufield because of his goal scoring. He’s been really good this year.

My wish with Suzuki has always been that he’d shoot more. He has an amazing shot and doesn’t use it enough.

 

[morhilane]

Listened to Allan Walsh's latest podcast episode this morning. He is saying the new upper limit of the salary cap this summer will be of 97 m. Some food for thought, we should have plenty of $ available to us. Here's a link to the youtube episode. It's at 39:10 of the video.​

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The cap can't increase by more than 5% per the CBA unless all parties agrees. It is way more likely that the cap next season is near the max allowed by the CBA ($92.4m) then it getting to $97m.

 

[CHfan1]

The cap can't increase by more than 5% per the CBA unless all parties agrees. It is way more likely that the cap next season is near the max allowed by the CBA ($92.4m) then it getting to $97m.

We’ll see but on Friedman’s last 32 thoughts column he said most people were predicting it would land around $95 million (which both parties would have to agree to).

 

[Grate n Colorful Oz]

The cap can't increase by more than 5% per the CBA unless all parties agrees. It is way more likely that the cap next season is near the max allowed by the CBA ($92.4m) then it getting to $97m.

That depends solely on the revenues. If revenues are up accordingly, they'll go over accordingly.

 

[morhilane]

That depends solely on the revenues. If revenues are up accordingly, they'll go over accordingly.

Everyone needs to agree above a 5% increase in cap hit.

 

[Grate n Colorful Oz]

Everyone needs to agree above a 5% increase in cap hit.

And I did not contradict this fact.

You talked of likelyhood. Im telling you that likelyhood hinges on revenues, not their agreement. Their agreement always falls in line with the revenues, year after year.

 

[salbutera]

Listened to Allan Walsh's latest podcast episode this morning. He is saying the new upper limit of the salary cap this summer will be of 97 m. Some food for thought, we should have plenty of $ available to us. Here's a link to the youtube episode. It's at 39:10 of the video.​

I’m expecting cap ceiling to be $115M+ within 4-5 years. VGK, Sea and now Utah are bringing in significant revenue and I expect expansion into Houston & Atlanta within 3 seasons will boost even more.

Habs have most of their core locked up w Demigod, potentially Fowler & Hage, and maybe Heineken needing significant $$ in 3-4 years and should be able to easily fit within their cap

 

[morhilane]

And I did not contradict this fact.

You talked of likelyhood. Im telling you that likelyhood hinges on revenues, not their agreement. Their agreement always falls in line with the revenues, year after year.

They don't "falls in line", the amount is negotiated. Last season, it was 5.4%.

But the league never increased the cap by as much as 88 to 97 (10%), that's why 95m is considered the actual max possible, it's more in a line with previous >5% big increase.