I think it would be interesting to see what you guys think of the moves that SevenLeg , Club_de_Hockey_le_Canadien , and I have made in the GM game. We are in charge of Montreal and we are trying to contend. I'll sort the moves in tiers:
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SMALL MOVES
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To MIN:
2024 7th MTL

To MTL:
Nate Thompson
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To TOR:
2023 5th MTL

To MTL:
Veeti Miettinen
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CAP CLEARING
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To CBJ:
Paul Byron
Jakub Dobes
2022 3rd ANA
2022 5th MTL

To MTL:
No return
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To CAR:
Arturri Lehkonen
Cedric Paquette
2024 4th MTL

To MTL:
2024 3rd CAR
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NOT SMALL BUT NOT BIG
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To VGK:
2024 6th MTL
Dimitri Kostenko

To MTL:
Nicolas Roy
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To MIN:
2022 4th MTL
2023 4th MTL

To MTL:
Victor Rask (2m retained by MIN)
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BLOCKBUSTERS
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To NSH:
Josh Anderson
Ben Chiarot
Kaiden Guhle
Mattias Norlinder
Logan Mailloux
2022 3rd MTL
2022 4th TBL
2022 1st (can be swapped with 23 1st after the lottery)

To MTL:
Roman Josi
Frederic Allard
2023 3rd NSH
David Rittich (625k retained by NSH)
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To PHI:
Mike Hoffman
Sami Niku
2022 3rd CAR

To MTL:
Claude Giroux (1m retained by PHI)
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Current Lineup: Team Page

Since 2019-20 (Chiarot's first season on the Canadiens), he has taken 40 minor penalties and only drawn 13 for a penalty differential of -27, the worst in the league.

I meant that I'd like to see Hoffman with suzuki & caufield on offense, not the PP

I have zero doubts right now that Wideman's gonna be playing over Niku even though I would like to see niku playing

Here's where each Canadiens line ranks among other lines in Dom's latest GSVA projections :

F1 - Toffoli - Suzuki - Caufield (23rd)
F2 - Drouin - Dvorak - Anderson (27th)
F3 - Armia - Evans - Gallagher (3rd)
F4 - Perreault - Paquette - Lehkonen (7th)

D1 - Kulak - Petry (17th)
D2 - Chiarot - Savard (29th)
D3 - Romanov - Wideman (19th)

G - Allen - Montembeault (18th)

Here's where each Canadiens line ranks among other lines in Dom's latest GSVA projections :

F1 - Toffoli - Suzuki - Caufield (23rd)
F2 - Drouin - Dvorak - Anderson (27th)
F3 - Armia - Evans - Gallagher (3rd)
F4 - Perreault - Paquette - Lehkonen (7th)

D1 - Kulak - Petry (17th)
D2 - Chiarot - Savard (29th)
D3 - Romanov - Wideman (19th)

G - Allen - Montembeault (18th)

Eye-test doesn't approve 27th ranked 2nd line

But a defence below average is quite right, even with Eddy back.

Tonight Mike Hoffman will make his habs debut against his former team.

“Forwards Mathieu Perreault and Evans and defenseman Sami Niku kept at it long after the rest of the team left the ice. Head coach Dominique Ducharme indicated that Evans was not yet ready to return, but he expects the young center to be back in action very soon.”

So that means the lines tonight will be:
Toffoli - Suzuki - Caufield
Drouin - Dvorak - Anderson
Hoffman - Brooks - Gallagher
Lehkonen - Paquette - Armia
Romanov - Petry
Chiarot - Savard
Kulak - Wideman

Tonight Mike Hoffman will make his habs debut against his former team.

“Forwards Mathieu Perreault and Evans and defenseman Sami Niku kept at it long after the rest of the team left the ice. Head coach Dominique Ducharme indicated that Evans was not yet ready to return, but he expects the young center to be back in action very soon.”

So that means the lines tonight will be:
Toffoli - Suzuki - Caufield
Drouin - Dvorak - Anderson
Hoffman - Brooks - Gallagher
Lehkonen - Paquette - Armia
Romanov - Petry
Chiarot - Savard
Kulak - Wideman

excited to see brooks and hoffman... not so much paquette over perreault

What does David Savard do? Because I don’t think I’ve ever seen him actually do anything good, he’s sort of just there.

either someone's gotta shake the team up or they're selling

I'm not able to watch the game but constant phone notifications are telling me that meier dahlen and fkn erik karlsson scored on us