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Forum: Armchair-GM18 avr. 2020 à 15 h 27
Sujet: Getting more 1sts
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>DiehardRedWingsFan58</b></div><div>St Louis isn't giving up their 2020 1st round pick to move Steen and Bozak, And what makes you think they'd waive for Ottawa anyways? And fat chance of Edmonton trading their 2020 1st for that offer either.</div></div>

I think STL does this in a heartbeat. They would only be moving down from like pick 27/31 (late 1st) to pick 65ish, to free up 10mil so they can re-sign Pietrangelo, Dunn and cover the many raises they have signed (Schenn, Scandella, Blais and Faulk). It's much more important that they keep Pietrangelo and Dunn, their #1 and 4 d-men than lose Steen and Bozak, 3rd and 4th line players. I'd argue, Ott could get more.

Also, a side note as someone else had mentioned all the 1st rounders, Kings had 4 in the Sedin draft (in 99 or 00 or 01) can't remember which year...
Forum: Armchair-GM18 avr. 2020 à 15 h 3
Sujet: Covid-19 salary cap impact players signatures
Well said HFX_10<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Habs_Hfx10</b></div><div>Don’t know what you have against Domi but since joining the habs he’s had a career year and although his play was inconsistent still put up decent numbers this season. That’s not a bad contract at all. Although Tatar has been great since joining us it’s possible his play will be declining when the habs are contenders. I’m both for trading him and signing him, if we get an overpay offer we move him, if he asks too long of term we should move him . Adding youth which will be ready when we’re contenders is a good move as well</div></div>

Agreed, great points! We have to be realistic and accept we are not on Bos, TB &amp; Tor levels right now. Yes we have depth but until we can improve our top 4 D and produce a true #1 centre, the best thing to do is the rebuild through the draft and/or using the surplus of solid picks and prospects to acquire young higher end prospects. This also gives time for our current solid to higher prospects Suzuki, Poehling, KK, Mete, Juulsen, Fleury, Brook time to develop. Any team over the past decade that has sustained being a contender for long periods of time have done so through draft (Pit, Chi, TB, Bos, Tor, LA, STL, Was? with some home grown elite/higher end picks and prospects and building around that. I get it, most of those teams also won Draft lotteries and landed several top 5 picks but that still doesn't make it foolproof, there has to be depth and a good mix (sorry Edm, Buf &amp; Flo, you haven't been able to make this work). We cannot afford to get caught up in high paid, long term deals with guys over 30. We already have Weber and Price, who i love but won't be worth their cap hit in 2/3 more years. If we can re-sign Petry and Tatar at 2/3 year deals at current salary or less, i'm all for keeping them. But I don't see that happening (and in their defense, if winning a cup now and/or getting paid as much as possible is what they want, than re-signing as a Hab, is NOT in their best interest).
Forum: Armchair-GM14 avr. 2020 à 22 h 22
Sujet: Habs rebuild
I'm all for upgrading/higher end players. In particular I would love to see Sergachev in a Habs uni. But to spend 3 or 4 1st rounders is too much. We need to either get Petry and Tatar re-signed at manageable contracts as i mentioned above or we trade them off. There's no doubt the GM is going to use the extra 2/3/4/5th rd picks to move up into the 1st or 2nd rd again which will be good. Another option with the extra picks is to use them in combination with one of our younger D-men for an upgrade of say Sergachev, Dunn, Bear, Myers or Fabbro. We're missing top 4 d-men and a #1 Centre. I get it the depth/surplus of picks isn't going to get us that, but re-signing Tatar and Petry to big $ long term hurts those chances even more, especially without the return we would get for them. I like these two guys, don't take me wrong. But with the way the cap works now, you can't have guys on the wrongside of 30 signed for big money long term. As it is we still need to get Gallagher and Danault significant pay increases and probably 5 or more year terms (and Domi).