Bergevin gets wind from Graves' agent of you lowballing him and offers a 1 year offer sheet for $5mm. What do you do then?

That costs MTL a 1st and 3rd according to CF calculator. In that case MTL just bought Graves for a year.

We’ll give your 2nd back if we can have Donskoi back.

What's the highest cap hit that you'd be willing to match?

That’s for you to figure out. We’re playing poker you don’t get to see my cards.

in what world is that lowballing graves? one good season and a mediocre playoffs? if anything we're over paying him right now. if you offersheet him 5mil Colorado would take that compensation in a heartbeat, a lottery pick and a 3rd sounds pretty good for graves when we have a packed d lineup

LOL. I already showed you my hand. Bergevin pays your price. What's your bid? Done. He hits that bid.

Perfect, so Bergevin pays $4.3mm and your compensation is now only a 2nd rounder. He's already shown he's willing to pay $3.5mm cap hits to both Chiarot and Edmundson. Graves (and Zadorov, for that matter) are likely both strongly on his radar.

this is why montreal misses the playoffs next season

Building a team is an entirely different animal when you've got the best goalie in the world on your team long term.

lol you guys have wasted his career. Just banked on him winning you every game. What did you guys make it to the conference finals one year with him?

Just as a side question: do you wake up every morning asking yourself, "alright, I'm going to try and break my personal record for how many things I can look at from the negative side of things today."

Not on tuesdays so you got lucky