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CareyPrice301

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Forum: Armchair-GM28 juin 2021 à 13 h 9
Sujet: LCM Habs Future
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Wreckless</b></div><div>Trade Chiarot who shut down Matthews &amp; Marner, Jets elite forwards, and Stone &amp; co. so that you can pay Danault more than Pageau who has 13 points so far these playoffs at the same time as being a shutdown C?

Oh, but I guess it’s not fair to only look at one season. Danault has 1 career playoff goal vs. 23 for Pageau.

$3.5mm is the right number for Danault.</div></div>

When Adam Lowry is getting paid 3.5 mil, it is clear danault will want more. No knock on lowry's skill, but the defensive impact he provides is not as efficent or as visible as danault. Lowry was given time to play as 1c whenever players went injured, and his defense was not anything noteworthy, neither was his offense, 3.5 mil is around what scott laughton and adam lowry got paid recently. Phillip Danault is a player in the range of pageau in projected salary wise, however pageau gives you a good offense and good defense, but while danault is centering the shutdown first line that held stone to zero points, matthews to 1 goal, and there is absolutely no denial danault played a much larger part than chiarot in defending these marquee players. Also to add on to danault, yes his offense is snakebitten this year, but he had had more 40+ point seasons than pageau on his track record, his offensive role has diminished this year, and his defensive duties have increased, there is reasoning behind why his offense has decreased. You don't win these series with danault being able to anchor that shutdown first line, because no other center on that team has reached that level of defensive play as a center as of yet. Keeping him is important to team structure. Maintaining this center depth can be the key to consistent success for the future of the canadiens.