HF Habs: Trade Proposal Thread #90: 2024-2025 season part III
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salbutera
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With the youth hockey interest level skyrocketing in the US - Oregon or Alabama will get an NHL team before Quebec
le_sean
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I do find it odd that they wear Capitals branded clothing making it so obvious. They are basically asking to get noticed
HuGort
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Bennett is super aggressive on the forecheck. Cap is going way up, Habs have many ELC players coming in next few years. be a good contract averaged out.
...just give Struble a shot, kid deserves it...
Vilimaki has more offensive potential than Struble. I like Struble for his grit and his calmness in clearing, but he isn’t really about to lead a power play or make good offensive dzone exits. Vilimaki has that potential and is still young for a D. Cost very little and could swap out with Struble in games where less oomph is needed.
He is a first rounder that hasn’t lived up to his potential, but he is still young at 26.
...we have LD puckmovers, many of them...why add another??...seems like a waste to me...
Struble is a good passer. I also see him as the one replacing Guhle.
I'm not sure why you would want someone for the PP.
Habs need a 7th D though and Valimaki could be of use.
Problem is, he has another year on his contract at 2M. So unless Habs see some untapped potential in him, they will probably pass.
Kimota
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The way the deal is structured, especially when it comes to those total amounts in the hundred Million range, will be different between richer teams and poorer teams.
Front weighted contracts both are an incentive for players in terms of future dollars and a higher cost at once for a more cash-strapped team. Some teams won't want or be able, even, to extend such a contract, butbthey might be more able to do so over time with money better spread out.
Bonus-laden contracts also pay the payer sooner on a yearly basis (before the season games even start) and, in Canadian jurisdictions, at least, offer fiscal advantages. They however, are lockout proof (player gets paid even if a lockout is declared) and some teams might not be able to absorb such losses as easily as others.
Montreal might be able to offer a more attractive contract structure than the Hurricanes, for example. That said, I don't think that Raantanen will want to come to Montreal, or that Hughes will offer such a contract to Raantanen.
Agreed.
8 X 12.5M in guaranteed money (100M), or two years with the risk of injury THAT WOULD STOP YOUR PAYDAY total at 28M, or 32M even (for those two years), just so you can get 20M more, over the long run?
Greed can be a big risk, but I can see how someone might be unsure to retire comfortably after earning 100M on their final contract.
There is a huge misconception that Montreal does not have good depth players.
In fact, while Gallagher, Anderson and Armia may be paid too much for the role that they play with the team at the moment (depth bottom-6 roles), they actually are quality depth players in those spots.
I would prefer a bigger body than Gallagher in his role, but both Anderson and Armia are fine at somewhere around 3M for Anderson and 2.5M-2.75M for Armia.
With better top-6 players, including the youngsters there with more experience, Anderson and Armia -- even Gallagher -- would be useful depth players.
It's more a question of Cap concerns than the quality of the players, really.
Speed, forechecking, PK skills and the odd goal on the rush from Anderson and puck-possession from Armia in the O-zone and good defensive awareness are both skill sets from these players that come in handy when wearing down opponents and supplying complementary scoring in the playoffs.
Let's be objective about the players on hand, including the value of Evans' strong two-way skills. He may not score regularly at the clip that he did during his pre-Christmas run, but hey is dynamic and drives the play forward even when he doesn't score. That, at least, gives you strong forechecking and time spent in the O-zone rather than your own zone.
Always harder for the opponent to score on you from behind their own blue line.
Beendair Donedat
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Correct. We have good depth players but they're far too good for their role and I find it is problematic in some ways itself.
We're a rebuilding team with a too-heavy bottom6 that helps steal too many points. They won't be a factor in the future team's success either so their success is largely "empty calories" if you'd forgive the metaphor.
Sure, they keep the team ticking and forward-facing but the under-performing young players have not taken a step forward so what does it mean for us to rank better than last year?
