Proposal: Tomas Plekanec for your bad contract (winger)
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Liferleafer
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Habs don't need any bad contracts thanks. Bergy needs to eat Pleks contract this year and leave him available for the expansion draft.
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Moose Head
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I think the habs will have to give LV something extra to get them to take Plekanec.
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The guy was really solid last year. I've seen him a few times this year and hasn't looked like the same player at all. What's up? Cold streak, injury? or is age catching up?
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Some guys age badly. I'm worried he might be one of those. Some guys have bad puck luck, but with him, watching him, he just looks like a lesser player. It's not bad luck, just he's not the same guy he was the last few years.
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Guys who are smaller and rely on elite skating decline faster in their mid 30's and that appears to be happening to Pleky. Lets see if he can turn it around but the trends are not looking good.
Lupul , puts him on LTIR and frees up 6 mill in cap space for other moves. Leafs loose 3 years of the lupul contract , allows them to move Bozak for a D man, Plekanec fills the void for this year and next
mattef
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What?
First of all, he only has one more year after this one.
Second, while he is having a bad start offensively, he's still an effective player. He's still our go-to guy for defensive assignments. Hopefully Galchenyuk will get there, but for the next year or two, he's not. We are already lacking in the middle as it is. Galchenyuk-Desharnais-Danault would not be a center depth I'd be confortable going with in the playoffs.
So there is no way we take a cap dump back for him. I agree he doesn't have much value on the trade market, but its certainly not negative. I'd prefer to loose him for nothing at the expansion draft to be honest.
Also how would a bad winger on a bad contract help us exactly?
First of all, he only has one more year after this one.
Second, while he is having a bad start offensively, he's still an effective player. He's still our go-to guy for defensive assignments. Hopefully Galchenyuk will get there, but for the next year or two, he's not. We are already lacking in the middle as it is. Galchenyuk-Desharnais-Danault would not be a center depth I'd be confortable going with in the playoffs.
So there is no way we take a cap dump back for him. I agree he doesn't have much value on the trade market, but its certainly not negative. I'd prefer to loose him for nothing at the expansion draft to be honest.
Also how would a bad winger on a bad contract help us exactly?
ManofSteel55
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Benoit Pouliot is your man! It's not a bad contract when he is producing, but he is streaky as I'm sure you know. Works for us because we could play Plekanec at 3C and on the penalty kill, and move RNH up to the Draisaitl line (Drai takes the faceoffs but plays wing otherwise).
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He has two more years on his deal, so we'll decline. He also has a modified no-trade clause.
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We're only a quarter of the way through the season. There is no need to rush to dump Plekanec, especially since his contract is not expected to impede Montreal all that much, even if he doesn't get claimed in the expansion draft.
He has the same number of points as Bergeron, He carries a massive defensive load with Eller in Washington and his underlying numbers suggest he's going to bounce back eventually.
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He wasn't stellar last season. He's not any different this season, really.
He's still an excellent match-up center, but he doesn't seem to trust in his ability to generate offense anymore. For so many years, he's been the go to defensive center on the team, as well as its top centerman. He had to do it all. Now that Galchenyuk took up the burden of generating offense, he just seems disinterested whenever he gets into the offensive zone, as if he was in energy saving mode.
It's closer to being snake-bitten or a cold streak than it is to age catching up to him. Physically, he's pretty much the same as he was 3, 4, 5 years ago. His skating has not taken a hit whatsoever. I think it's more of a confidence thing. He had a ton of chances when he played with Radulov earlier this year, but he couldn't capitalize on them.
He's never been an offensive catalyst. He needs someone to generate chances for him, and he'll take care of the defensive part of the game. He did very well with Kovalev for that reason, and even though the tangible results weren't there, I thought he looked good with Radulov. Right now, as lethargic as he's been, his wingers are doing absolutely nothing to help him snap out of it. All the offense goes through Galchenyuk and Radulov right now. It's not just Plekanec that's not generating offense up to the expectations.
Regardless of all that, the Habs absolutely cannot let go of him at this stage. They need an upgrade at center, either someone reliable on the 3rd line to ease up his workload a bit, or someone more offensively dynamic to take on the #2 role. But in any case, trading him is absolutely not an option unless an upgrade comes the other way. I'm not sure what the OP's big plan is, but rolling with Danault and Desharnais on the 2nd and 3rd lines doesn't sound appealing to me. That's draft lottery territory.
