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Forum: Armchair-GM12 juill. 2017 à 13 h 38
Forum: Armchair-GM21 juin 2016 à 10 h 4
Sujet: I must be crazy
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>SmartGM</b></div><div><i>Here's my point of view on this trade that might be ridiculous but also smart. Price has two years left on his contact his new contract will sky rocket. Getting a really low pick for Price sounds right. The last Vezina winner who won the cup was Tim Thomas. You don't need an all-star goalie to win the cup. Look at the last couple cups Murray, Crawford, Quick, Crawford, Quick, Niemi not even close Price.</i></div></div>
Agree, trading Price now would get you a nice return - probably more than a 6th oa and a 2nd if Schneider is worth a 9th oa. On the flip side, trading Price for futures would instill a setback and push the cup window further out by 3-4 years, IF the prospects pan out. By that time, Patches and Subban would be 30-31 and slipping out of their prime, so you'd better trade them now too. My take is MB should stick to his core, add the missing pieces and hope for the best.
Forum: Armchair-GM16 juin 2016 à 16 h 5
Sujet: Offseason moves considering the expension draft
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>dgab</b></div><div><i>I like the team, hopefully you'd be right about Ekholm. Someone else might offer more. This team looks competitive though, a free agent like Okposo could turn a dismal offseason into an excellent one.</i></div></div>
That's the thing: there would be lots of d-men available, and not much takers. Remember, you'd have to protect no more than 4 forwards to protect 4 d-men. Teams with deep rosters would not risk loosing a good prospect or top line player for added D depth. That would leave, I think, 4 takers: ARI, CAR, EDM and TOR. On the sellers side, there would be at least 6 teams: ANA, CBJ, NSH, MIN, NJD and NYI. If Ekholm is not available, then Spurgeon, Scandella, Savard, J.Johnson or DeHaan would. Interrestingly enough, just like that, the Habs sub-par top-6 would be an advantage.
Forum: Armchair-GM14 juin 2016 à 9 h 31
Sujet: Experimental trades - need comments guys!
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>F50marco</b></div><div><i><div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>marc</b></div><div><i>Yakupov is a cheap, one year contract winger, so this trade seems to be ok. The Hawks would be very happy with this Bickell trade, so they will overpay. But I don´t unterstand the Wideman deal. What is your intention for the 2017/18 season? Resign Wideman or free a lot of cap space? And I´am not sure that the 4th over all pick is worth all these trades.</i></div></div>

Right-o for the Yakupov scenario. I'm gambling that MTL with the Therrien's stern tutelage, Pacioretty's leadership and Galchenyuk's friendship will help put him on the right track. Even if it doesn't work out, have we really lost all that much? If he just becomes a 20G scorer we've already won and that is not a far fetched idea for a guy like Yak. If Kessel can pretty much turn it around, I don't see why Yakuov, who is younger and cheaper can't.

If the Hawks are willing, realistically, Montreal better be all over that.

Regarding Wideman, no chance at resigning him unless its very cap friendly. The idea behind this was to find a way to move up in the draft without giving up much in term of valuable assets. CGY dumps 5.25M in cap space, they get 2 young cheap prospects while moving down only 3 spots and MTL moves up to get the player they probably want the most in Dubois (outside the top 3). They also get a serviceable dman to help limit Markov's minutes. He's only got 1 year left so we're not mortgaging future cap space really. Next year, we spend our extra cap space to target true LH top 4 dmen to play with Subban and Petry (if Markov retires).</i></div></div>

Yakupov hasn't proved he can score like Kessel (why did TOR fans wanted him out anyway?), he's a possession anchor and he's kinda got an attitude problem; not so sure anyone can do something about it. IMO, the Habs would be better served by adding a possession-driving player that can play a solid all-around game.