Quoting: Bmersereau73
I switched things up but a team that has Price, Weber, Patch, Drouin and Tavares ain't bad.
That's the point, any team can do that! STL are interested in Tavares and will have cap space when Stastny comes off the books, they will go " We have Taransenko, Pietrangelo, Allen, Parayko, Schwartz, Schenn...and on and on it goes.... STL can even say they have strong prospects in the pipeline so the team's success is sustainable (Thomas, Kyrou (both playing for team Canada at the WJ), Fabbri, Barbeshev, Thompson....
CBJ has interest in Tavares, and the're projected to have around 16 million in cap space if they let Johnson go (which I think they will) and with just Jenner and Murray to sign, I am willing to bet both of them won't cost more than $6mil so they will have around $10mil in space. They can do the same thing... we have "Bobrovski, Panarin, Wennberg, Jones, Werenski...blah blah blah they can keep going too. same for the prospect pool for future sustainability (Dubois, Bjorkstrand, Milano, Korpisalo)
I could use a lot more teams as examples. Now try and convince me that MTL is a better option. If MTL was winning and were toe to toe in the standings with Tampa bay in their division, than you can "MTL has Price, Weber, Drouin blah blah blah and we're already top of the standings! adding Tavares will pushed the Habs over the top!" ... now that could be a difference-maker when Tavares wants to decide to stay in NYI or go. like I said, if MTL want any chances at landing Tavares, they have to do something that can show that the team is moving in an upwards directions, right they are losing are are doing the opposite of trending upwards. So you doing "almost" nothing will not attract Tavares to MTL