Équipe: 2018-19 Canadiens de Montréal

Date de création initiale: 18 déc. 2017

Publié: 18 déc. 2017

Mode - plafond salarial: Basique

First of all the thing I would do is strip Pacioretty of "C" and give it to Weber who has experience with "C" on his jersey and "A"s will be given to Max, Gallagher and Drouin.

The deals for me seems pretty fair:
-Tampa gets winger for Point and for Gourde on 3rd line (Palat-Point-Lehkonen/Killorn-Gourde-Shaw) and pick for Tampas 3rd line C, that would be 1C in MTL.
-Philly gets top-6 guy in Galchenyuk who is capable of putting up 50+ points, RHD prospect and pick. MTL gets top-4 RHD prospect who can play in NHL in 18-19, salary dump (with it 2nd rounder), but player who can put up some points in bottom-6 and young W with playmaking ability (will be as equally good as Radulov was with Patch)
-Plekanec signing is just for C depth and not spending too much money in UFAs. I rather wait a year or two for Poehling (2C!), Ikonen or Vejdemo to get NHL-ready than spend 6-7 mil on C who would be good for 2-3 years (Stastny) and then be stucked with his contract forever. BTW Tavares is staying in NY. Same as Stamkos. Marchessault in VGK. I also think Danault deserves 4mil contract and he will justify it while playing with Max. Max will explode after taking C of his chest.

Lines explanation:
Forwards:
1. Drouin-Johnson-Sherbak. Young fast line. Drouin is playmaker who can find anybody and also score some goals. Johnson is the definition of C there. He wins draws and will get min 60+ pts or even more, but atleast 60. Sherbak is the goalscorer. He is not your typical goal-machine like Boeser or Ovi, but player capable of putting 25+ goals a season. And Drouin on C experiment will be over. He is many times better at wing.
2. Pacioretty-Danault-Konecny. Remember both Danault and Pacioretty with Radulov? It will have the same effect. Paciorettys production will explode after taking the "C" off. Will score atleast 35+ goals in that next season.
3. Hudon-Plekanec-Gallagher. Hudon will get more experience and stabilize his position on 3rd line LW, with Plekanec, who would be on cheaper contract (reliable 3rd line C for atleast 1 yr, will play his 1000th NHL game in MTL jersey) and could bring around 30-40 points with heart and soul of the team Gallagher, who might score around 45-50 pts (20+ goals). Next season Pleky would play on 4th line and Poehling will have be on 3rd with same wingers as Pleky.
4. Carr-Lehterä-Byron. This might be really good 4th line. Lehterä would be sh** on that line but atleast will win draws and check. After that season.. back to Europe. Carr is now PPG player, that would fastly change, but he would be really interesting to see with Byron who could still put up to 10-15 goals on 4th line and atleast 30 points.

Defence:
1. Mete-Weber. Mete will get more experienced and start to produce on great level and Weber would be still really consistent!
2. Alzner-Myers. Myers is enormous defensive talent that can stay in NHL for more than 15 years and will have be part of MTLs future. Alzner will mentor him with defensive game.
3. Jerabek-Benn. Jerabek deserves a chance to prove himself playing regularly and Benn is proven soldier of defence.

Price and Lindgren would be great goaltending duo. Lindgren would make great back-up for Price who has proven that he is no. 1 G in the world and could play great with even bad defence in front of him, imagine great defence..

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