Quoting: KentMcNally
I think that Montreal needs high end talent, so with picking at #5 and #11 they should strengthen the rebuild. They get a forward at #5 and a D man at %11.
After this year Montreal could choose to buy out one of the contracts at the end of this season too, especially since the Alzner buyout is done after this year.
I could see it for this year, but I think:
the price that you're paying is quite high
the loss of cap space in 2024 limits other options (especially when you have so many dead contracts already
the entire hoffman dump is so expensive
the delay of the picks you're getting in 2025, which won't probably pay off until 2027-2028
the waste of the next probably 3 seasons of the youth you have now (Barron, Caulfield, Suzuki, Harris, etc...) means that they might be stagnant/undeveloped/ or gone in one way or another by the time your 3 shots in the dark in 2023 and 3 shots in the dark in 2025 picks arrive
Ideally none of those are bad, except the dump of Hoffman, but the question is....why? Maybe you do make a couple of those for more picks, but in the meantime, there are some high end guys there, but you'd be better off playing the kids, dumping the old/bad guys eating cap, (armia, Gallagher, hoffman, edmundsen, savard, allen, etc....because they are ultimnately standing in the way "cap wise" to really rebuild and become a "dumping ground" and setting yourself up to either get the best UFAs and playing the kids to see what you have in them.
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