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Habs4ever

Habs4ever
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Forum: Armchair-GM12 mai à 17 h 4
Sujet: Jeff Marek trade proposal
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>gm_jeanguy</b></div><div>As a hockey/Habs fan, I value your posts quite a lot. You're one of the rare users on this site whose contributions offer some form of perspective on what's happening behind the scenes, and I make sure to read as much of your posts as possible - with 4 young kids, that's hard! 🙂</div></div>

Wow, four young ones, now that is impressive. My youngest is 21, so I’m past those fun/crazy years. Hockey is a sport and should be fun. Capfriendly is a fantastic opportunity to discuss the sport we all enjoy. It’s a over used phrase and I don’t know who said it first but haters are going to hate. I see some ridiculous trades on here, I never feel it’s my job to go mock the person. I remember 3 years ago, people were making fun of a guy on here and I came to his defence. After thanking me, we talked for several days, only to find out he lived in Australia and never played hockey in his life. He just likes the sport and followed it online. Here’s an opportunity to grow the game, instead people were making fun of him.
Forum: Armchair-GM11 mai à 17 h 16
Sujet: Jeff Marek trade proposal
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>crankshaft</b></div><div>But you do understand that telling people on a fan GM site that you were a scout does come off as false. Not saying you weren't a scout. I just followed McRanteskog in the desire to know who else was taking Mailloux in the 2nd as I like he/she/they like sources to go with statements.

As a scout/former scout, what do you think about Ned Coletti scouting for SJS?</div></div>

I’ve never met him and know very little about him. I know he was involved in baseball. So not sure, if you are wondering how he will do in hockey. Now you might think I’m name dropping again but Roger Neilson was a very good friend of mine and I did over a dozen camps with him. His start in coaching was not in hockey. So people can cross over.

I know there are plenty of liars online but with God as my witness I was heavily involved in hockey and was paid to do it. I used to use my real name online but some people called the team I was working for and were rude and annoying to the OHL team. I still enjoy the game and do contract work. I could be full time but my wife and I enjoy Florida too much in the winters. I have nothing to gain on here. I’m not selling anything, not asking for money, not arguing or making fun of anyone.

I grew up a Habs fan from my dad &amp; grandad. A few of my friends played for Habs &amp; they would also like to come on capfriendly but they also get mocked. One of them won the cup in 93 and he got mocked. He lasted 3 days on here. So it is what it is.
Forum: Armchair-GM11 mai à 16 h 39
Sujet: Jeff Marek trade proposal
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>crankshaft</b></div><div>He didn't ask for their contact information, he asked for their names which would not implicate you in any crimes. Honestly you seem full of you know what.</div></div>

I told my wife, watch the comments that will come back. Not everyone on here is a teenager (not implying you), some of us actually made a living from hockey. It actually gets tiresome to put up with the immaturity of some online people.

My wife was cooking a meal for Ryan O’Reilly that was one of many players in my summer camps and he said do some teaching to these people online. Maybe they can learn something. My youngest suggested Reddit. So I did. It went well for 21 days until the hatters and mockers showed up. I just shut down my account.

Last year I watched every Laval Rocket game and I listed Corey schueneman above Xavier Ouellet on capfriendly and RDS and I got roasted and mocked. So it gets frustrating. I haven’t returned to RDS and just recently returned to capfriendly. The hate online is sad to see and a direct reflection of the character of those doing the mocking.
Forum: Armchair-GM11 mai à 16 h 30
Sujet: Offseason moves with Price in limbo and 2022 starting lineup
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Blazingbat11</b></div><div>I'm not saying it will be a great pick (1st or 2nd rd), but the thing is that there will be a market for his contract.

There WILL be teams looking to get to the cap floor, even in this cap strapped era we are in. ARI will be among them. Others will be OTT, SEA, maybe BUF.
The benefit of going for Weber's contract is....instead of spending millions of dollars on players you might not even want in your line up taking a roster spot that could be better served on young guns, you get Weber's<strong> insured</strong> contract, and pay ZERO dollars. it's all about the money, and we've seen GMs pay for financial flexibility.</div></div>

most people assume it’ll be a negligible return, or that it’ll actually cost the Canadiens something to get Weber off their books, but it’s really the opposite. Any team trading for his contract is doing so to reach the salary-cap floor, and any team trading to reach the floor is a budget team.

people say, “There’s only a total $6 million left in actual dollars to pay Weber over his remaining four years under contract, so a budget team can live with that,” but that’s actually wrong. No team acquiring Weber will be paying that $6 million, because his contract is insured.

Budget teams prefer paying zero. This is free cap space for any team that needs it, and the Canadiens might actually get a reasonable asset for it.
Forum: Armchair-GM11 mai à 11 h 19
Forum: Armchair-GM6 mai à 10 h 57
Sujet: Hypothetically speaking
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>jonh514</b></div><div>29 pts and minus 5 for Evans over 17 pts and minus 21 for Poehling. Evans is probably the most underrated center by his own team's fans in the league. If you give him the 3rd line center role you can probably expect 35-40 points out of him year after year. I hope they keep Wright in junior 1 more year (if they draft him) and play Suzuki, Dvorak, Evans, Poehling next season. Based on our second half center is no longer our issue and we should give these guys a chance to perform as they did in the second half over a full season before we make big changes.

Our wingers were really terrible last season. Gallagher, Byron, Drouin, Armia, Hoffman were all terrible. Imagine the points these Centers would have put up with better wingers?</div></div>

I agree with you on Evans. I would add since MSL took over Poehling was -6. He also played on 4th line with rotating wingers.

With that said, you are correct we need much more from the wingers. If Gallagher &amp; Hoffman can have bounce back seasons that will help. Personally I would move Drouin &amp; Armia. Both tease with their immense potential but let you down by seasons end. I Ylonen, can he take another step?
Forum: Armchair-GM5 mai à 23 h 19
Sujet: Hypothetically speaking
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Daredevil514</b></div><div>I think Wright is NHL ready but not for a predominant role at 1 or 2 C. In that case, I would send him back to junior to boost his confience at 120% even if he doesn't really need it, just so that we don't rush him unnecessarily in a probably bad season. Let's just do our best for Bedard, Fantelli or Mitchkov and bring Wright when we can really start turning the corner seriously with capspace, UFA signings etc. He won't be good enough next year to toss Dvorak anyway IMO so 1.Suzuki 2,Dvorak 3. Evans 4. Poehling and pray for another top 3 pick. Barron Guhle Harris, Ylonen or others is enough youth for MSL to develop in 2022-2023</div></div>

There are so many good options. From 2012 to 2017 the Habs didn’t draft well but the last 4 drafts have or show some real exciting prospects.

I’m just happy that we finally have some good players coming.
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