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Forum: Armchair-GM5 juin à 22 h 33
Sujet: old friends
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Away</b></div><div>Binnington has been very very good the last 2 years. Top 5 the last 2 years even. He had one shaky year and the was the first year after Covid. Not an excuse but something to keep in mind. Other than that’s he’s been very good.

Faulk on the other hand has been good but not great. But his partner all 3 years has been Krug which has really hindered him a ton.

Now not saying Det should accept this but Husso and Holl are cap dumps. This is simply not enough for the blues to take cap dumps and for them to trade their starter and a top 4 dman</div></div>

Thank you for the insight. I just looked up Binnington’s stats, his 2022-23 season looks pretty bad but, this year looks pretty solid. That gives me the impression of a bit of inconsistency and given the 3 years and $18m left on his deal and his age (31 in July), compared to Husso’s 1 year at $4.75m; one could argue that Binnington is more of a cap dump than Husso.
Forum: Armchair-GM1 juin à 9 h 20
Sujet: The Yzerplan Is Expired
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Campabee</b></div><div>The Habs were already reportedly offered a young former 1st round pick with 2nd line potential (speculation was Tyson Forester or Morgan Frost) and declined it, this offer doesn't come near that. Hughes and company know he has 2nd pairing potential and are not going to sell him for less than they feel he is worth to the Habs, other GM's evaluation of him matters very little since we don't want to trade Xhekaj, therefore it is going to take whatever price Hughes is asking for him to be traded and a 2nd clearly is not going to cut it.</div></div>

I mean, we’ll see what happens; rumors, speculation, etc, can all only be taken with a grain of salt anyhow. If I’m MTL, I’m not trading him at all. I know he’s a LHD but I think he could play RD as well. But more than likely one of your guys, that you like will be moved.
Forum: Armchair-GM1 juin à 9 h 13
Sujet: The Yzerplan Is Expired
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Fergy72</b></div><div>Ken Holland traded away every 1st rounder and had plenty of bad contracts not to mention he decimated the entire farm system, our AHL team was like 28 year old average. you can't rebuild an organization in 5 drafts. this was the 1st season where the AHL team had plenty of yzerman's draft picks. he hasn't been perfect but this is why teams shouldn't always go for it every year. You probably weren't complaining about all those horrible deals Holland made the last 5 years of his tenure to keep the streak going. This is a true rebuild in every sense of the word and they take 8-10 years especially without a #1 overall pick</div></div>

No, actually I was not happy with a majority of the bad contracts he signed a majority of his players to. To be frank, the only two contracts I actually liked outside of the superstar deals (which we needed to make), ended up actually being 2 of the worst contracts on our books; Stephen Weiss &amp; Frans Nielsen, lol. I was happy about those two signings if I’m being honest, even though I did not agree with the attempt at remaining mildly competitive and signing anybody to long term deals at the time; I’d be lying if I said I did not fancy those two players. I was wrong and so was Ken Holland.

But I hated all the others, and in fairness, I did not agree with keeping the aging core together for the amount of time we did. I hate the traditional concept of making our players “lifers”, like, I would have traded Zetterberg to somewhere like Vancouver to play with the Sedin’s, Datsyuk to Washington, Kronwall etc. Lidstrom’s retirement should have signaled the end of that era and in 2013 or so, we could have gotten significant returns for all of those players and been able to maneuver a quicker than normal rebuild, like 2, maybe 3 years. But they have their traditions and they also wanted to keep the playoff streak alive which was completely silly. And I’m not speaking in hindsight, these were my sentiments then.

Yzerman’s tenure here, I’m not going to sit here and list all the things he’s done and/or hasn’t done since he’s taken over that I’ve disagreed with, which is just about everything except 2 or 3 transactions and I identified my displeasure for his moves or lackthereof in the moment. He’s no Jim Nill.
Forum: Armchair-GM1 juin à 8 h 6
Forum: Armchair-GM1 juin à 8 h 2
Sujet: The Yzerplan Is Expired
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>jpsnow13</b></div><div>You just don't get it. MTL values him as 1st and the only reason they would consider trading him away is because they have a surplus of LHD and a lack of foward prospects.

Downgrading a LHD for another while adding a low pick they already have plenty of is useless to them.</div></div>

Your post could do without the “you just don’t get it” part. But thanks.

They can value him at whatever they want or whatever it is you think would be required in a deal, bottom line is though, nobody is paying a 1st round pick for Arber Xhekaj. I’m probably his biggest fan outside of Montreal and the difference for me is I have no personal bias to the team or the player that clouds my judgement from reality. The kid is worth a 2nd round pick and MAYBE a low tier prospect.

You don’t want another LHD prospect? Cool, swap him for a forward. MTL will NOT get a 1st round pick for him; that simply won’t happen. And if some team comes along and offers a 2nd round pick + C+ or better prospect as a suggested I’d be for, they would certainly take that.